Though hog farmers are starting to see decent profits, the continued presence of a major disease continues to keep a lid on profits and herd expansion, a report released this week shows. In a quarterly pork report, Rabobank livestock ...
Tags: lower feed costs, the pork market, PEDv
Cement sales in the first six months increased 6.18 percent to 10.13 million metric tons from 9.54 million MT in 2012, the Cement Manufacturer's Association of the Philippines said. The group attributed the healthy performance to the ...
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The stockmarket pushed past the key 5000 level for the first time in almost three years and stayed there, after strong earnings results and a surge in consumer confidence suggested deep interest-rate cuts were doing the job of bolstering ...
Tags: stockmarket, Australia, net profit
The New Year has evoked mixed outlook for the garment industries in the Asian region.A few of the industry representatives in the region feel that the industry will prosper,while others maintain that not much has changed at the ground-level ...
In a first-ever meeting, peak oil proponents met with the US Energy Information Administration earlier this month to urge the nation's top statistical agency to temper its rosy outlook on future US energy production. Representatives ...
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A new survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit finds when institutional investors interested in frontier markets were asked to choose two regions out of five, two-thirds see Africa as holding the greatest opportunity. Asia came ...
Tags: Africa, institutional investors, institutional investment
Big Sun holds rosy outlook on 2012 Patty Wang,Taipei;Adam Hwang,DIGITIMES[Thursday 10 May 2012]Big Sun Energy Technology,a Taiwan-based maker of crystalline silicon solar cells,is optimistic about its business operations in the second ...
Tags: Big Sun, rosy outlook, crystalline silicon solar cells, PV systems