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Rough Supply Signals Shift in Balance of Power

Apr 30, 2019

Profit is the new turnover in the diamond trade. As retail inventory levels continue to shrink due to recession-driven efficiencies, the trade has had to change its mindset. No longer can diamantaires play the high-volume production game: ...

Tags: diamond trade, diamond

How to Survive as The Diamond Trade Shrinks

Apr 30, 2019

The diamond trade remains under pressure, and further contraction of the market is expected this year. Apart from being squeezed by high rough costs and declining polished prices, dealers lament there are too many players chasing the same ...

Tags: Diamond Trade, Diamond

Facebook Messenger Will Soon No Longer Work on These Smartphones

Mar 28, 2017

Fans of Facebook Messenger, listen up; the popular messaging app is to cease support for a number of smartphones in the coming days. If you’re rocking an iPhone or a recent Android handset in your pocket, however, there’s no ...

Tags: Facebook Messenger, Smartphones

Beijing Stores Cut Gold Prices on Slump

Oct 11, 2016

The biggest weekly slump in the global gold price led Beijing's gold stores to cut their prices for the first time this year. The price in Beijing declined by 10 yuan ($1.5) per gram on Sunday. This was the first cut, following six earlier ...

Tags: Gold, Gold Prices

Collapsing PV Demand Leads to Sale Decrease

Sep 9, 2016

PV market demand plunged rapidly as expected as it entered in the third quarter, driving significant price decline across the PV supply chain. Prices of solar cells and wafer have reached new low for consecutive weeks. Consequently, ...

Tags: PV market, PV industry

What Will Brexit Mean for Australian Food and Beverage Producers?

Jul 5, 2016

Despite indications the poll would be close, the London financial community has been dumbfounded by the decision of a majority of British voters to leave the European Union (EU). However, advocates of the 'Remain Case' were not ...

Tags: Food Producers, Beverage, Brexit

China Q1 Non-Cash Payments Rise

Jun 8, 2016

The amount of non-cash payments in China in the first quarter rose 7.1 percent year on year, according to a central bank report released on Tuesday. The amount of money involved in non-cash payments,including commercial papers, bank cards ...

Tags: Non-Cash Payments, commercial papers

Hong Kong Overtakes New York as World's Biggest IPO Capital

Dec 25, 2015

Hong Kong has replaced New York this year as the world's biggest IPO market by the amount of funds raised. According to data from Reuters, companies have raised 25 billion U.S. dollars from initial public offerings in Hong Kong so far ...

Tags: IPO Capital

Survival Show May Air in Europe

Dec 18, 2015

Bear Grylls, British explorer.[Photo provided to China Daily] British explorer Bear Grylls' Chinese mainland TV debut has garnered attention from major European buyers, making it the first Chinese outdoors reality show to be sold ...

Tags: Bear Grylls, Survival Show

FOB Singapore 500 Ppm Gasoil Cash Differential Nosedives Into Discount on Supply Glut

Dec 18, 2015

The Asian gasoil market saw a sharp reversal in fortunes this month as higher exports from India and North Asia and weakness in Europe, despite the cold season, clamped shut arbitrage outflows from Asia, resulting in a buildup in supply ...

Tags: Gasoil, sulfur gasoil

Indian Consumption of Dalrymple Bay's Australian Coal Slumps in Oct

Nov 25, 2015

Dalrymple Bay coal terminal's exports to India slumped dramatically in October to just 266,700 mt compared with 873,500 mt in September and an on-month decline of 228%, according to shipping data for the Australian terminal released ...

Tags: coal, thermal coal, metallurgical coal

LASER 2013: Japan's Laser Activity Flat with Bright Spots

Nov 5, 2015

As part of the 11th International Laser Marketplace – the bi-annual industry conference staged at LASER World of Photonics in Munich – Dr Kunihiko Washio, CEO of Paradigm Laser Research (Tokyo, Japan) gave a presentation on the ...

Tags: Laser, Flat photonics, optoelectronics products

European Solar Installations Down 36% in 2014

Nov 5, 2015

The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), one of the most respected collectors of data on solar installations, says that only 7 GW of additional solar power was connected to Europe’s grids in 2014 – down 36 per cent ...

Tags: Photovoltaic Industry, solar installations

PV 'poised for Exponential Growth'

Nov 5, 2015

New predictions from Greentech Media’s market research division (GTM Research) suggest that solar photovoltaics will account for half of all the new electricity-generating capacity added globally over the next five years – and ...

Tags: PV industry, global PV demand, PV market

South African Sep Thermal Coal Exports Fall 15.1% on Year to 5.93 Million Mt

Nov 4, 2015

South Africa exported 5.93 million mt of thermal coal in September, slipping 15.1% year on year due to lower shipments to India, Europe, Turkey, Pakistan and the US, according to customs data released late Friday. The volume was, however, ...

Tags: South African, thermal coal, Exports

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