3 Feb. 2014. After giving an impressive performance last year, global energy stocks have been under performing the broad market on falling oil prices, rising global supply, and waning global demand. Notably, energy has been...
Some years ago, someone made the claim that genuine chocolate isn’t ‘good for you’ – saying that artificial chocolate made from carob beans is superior. Thank goodness, science now concedes that chocolate is not all...
SINGAPORE, 7 Jan. 2014: Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) surprised traders last week with a second public tender in two months, offering up to 50,000 tonnes of fuel oil for February loading, documents from...
While China was forecast to steadily increase production of principal grains such as wheat and corn in the next five years, the trends were lower for rice and especially soybeans, according to projections contained in...
Morgan Stanley report predicts that has export will help country eliminate its current account deficit for the first time in four decades.Australia is to become a global gas superpower by the middle of the decade...
China will face an excess supply of 34 million metric tons of fuels by 2020, below previous estimates, as new refineries may be delayed or scrapped, according to the nation’s biggest oil and gas producer.Diesel...
The milk producers of the European Milk Board (EMB), the European umbrella organisation of dairy farmers’ associations in Europe, ended their two-day members’ meeting in Hamburg today. The major issue was the dairy farms’ income...
Remanufacturing for a more sustainable supply chainEditor’s note: Peter H. Clonts, CPIM, and James W. (Jim) Tilton, CPIM, recently presented the educational session “The Supply Chain in Reverse—Component Remanufacturing at Rolls-Royce” at APICS 2013 in...
For much of the past six years, the global grain markets have lurched from one crop crisis to the next, keeping inventories low and food prices high.Now, as harvest machines across the U.S. Midwest prepare...
Carlos Aguero, chief executive officer of Metalico Inc., talks about the outlook for the scrap-metal market. Aguero also discusses Metalico's acquisition strategy. He speaks with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock."Read more ...