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US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has revised up India s soybean output estimation by 5% for 2010-11 to 9.2 million tons from its last month projection. Area is forecast at 9.5 million hectares, up 0.5 million or 6 percent from last month, but down 0.1 million or 1 percent from ...
Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association said country s textile and garment industry will meet its annual export target of $10.5 billion by November. According to the Association, the industry would earn more than $1 billion each month in the fourth quarter. September was the ...
Cotton exports will be there in cards only after the domestic requirement is met, said India s Textile Minister pacifying the apprehension of textile industry on Friday. Minister Dayanidhi Maran said the government would not allow the export of cotton above the 55 lakh bales on ...
The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute set up in Australia has received a grant of US$500,000 from the US State Department. Welcoming the decision of the US State Department, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said it was a tangible vote of confidence in the ...
p>EUR 21 million investment in new capacity to satisfy surging demand Solvay announces today that it has decided to build a specialty polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Start-up of the plant is expected in the last quarter of ...
p>China's Tianjin Dagu has deferred the startup of its 200,000 mt/year acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene project in Tianjin to later this month, from late September, due to delays arising from the recent national holidays as well as "minor technical issues", said a company source ...
p>The spread between US toluene and mixed xylenes narrowed to roughly 12 cents/gal ($4/mt) on Thursday morning. For more than a week from September 27 to October 6, mixed xylenes averaged a roughly 20-cent premium to toluene. Mixed xylenes were supported by a nearly open ...
p>The prompt open specification naphtha market in Europe exhibited double-digit premiums versus swaps on Thursday, surpassing six-month highs. The last time premiums were over $10.50/mt versus swaps was on June 14, according to Platts data. The naphtha market is very strong in ...
p>UK NBP and Dutch TTF gas prices were looking stable to stronger Monday morning, compared with the previous week's closing levels. At 09:20 UK time (0820 GMT) the UK within-day price was 43.25 pence/therm and day-ahead 44.00 p/th, up from a closing price for Monday's gas of 41...
Baoshan Iron and Steel Co, China's largest steel maker, said it will increase steel plate prices for May after iron ore prices climbed. The price for cold-rolled products will rise by 200 yuan (US$29) a metric ton while the hot-rolled plates price is unchanged. Electric steel ...
p>New offshore drilling rules were released Friday, with US regulators requiring negative pressure tests on wells for the first time and imposing new requirements for cementing and well control procedures. The publication of the rules in the Federal Register, which will occur ...
p>Chesapeake Energy has agreed Monday to sell a one-third stake in its Eagle Ford Shale project in southern Texas to China National Offshore Oil Corp. for just over $2 billion, a deal which one analyst said was a win-win strategy for both companies. "The market is reacting very ...
p>Iranian oil minister Masoud Mirkazemi Monday announced a 9% increase in the OPEC's state's crude oil reserves to 150.31 billion barrels, putting Iran's reserves above recently revised Iraqi reserve estimates and setting the stage for what could potentially become a tussle over ...
p>PetroChina Dagang Petrochemical arranged to refine 380,000mt of crude in October, flat from one month earlier, a refinery source said. The refinery was now in normal operation, with scheduled output of gasoline and gasoil totaling 283,000mt, down 2,700mt or 0.9% on month, the ...
p>One of the biggest oil majors in Japan was slated to supply 3,000mt of base oils to China in October, mainly 500SN and 150BS grades, revealed a source with the Japanese oil giant. The company had suspended spot supplies to the international market for three months, rounding up ...
Once Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Vale, the world's three leading iron ore giants, assume the monthly pricing plan and the index pricing plan, they will put Chinese steel mills in even more difficult situation. The fall of iron ore's stock price and market demand have not ...
p>Shenzhen City in South China's Guangdong Province did not put into effect GB IV automotive gasoline standard as scheduled on Oct 1, a survey found. The Shenzhen municipal government is yet to release document on implementation of GB IV automotive gasoline standard and there is ...
p>Shandong independent refineries' coker run rate surged by 10.6 percentage points to 61.6% from two weeks ago, with restart of cokers in two refineries and launch of new cokers. Petcoke sales were smooth during the past two weeks, as most downstream plants were active in ...
p>Sinopec commenced construction of two CFB boilers in Jiujiang Petrochemical on Sep 13, revealed a source with the oil major. The project would be completed in 2012, he said. The two CFB boilers each would have a petcoke or coal consumption capacity of 220mt/hour, the source ...
p>PetroChina Huabei Petrochemical is slated to refine 420,000mt of crude oil in October, slightly up 10,000mt from the previous month, a refinery source said. The slim decline was mainly due to one more calendar day, the source explained, adding the refinery will continue to run ...
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IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
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China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
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Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
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Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
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Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
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