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3 days agoEuropeans will be spending a lot on fuel. Natural gas prices are up by around $170 per megawatt hour over the last 12 months. In the U.S., we measure natural gas price by British thermal unit ...
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A global recession and lack of willing young military fighters puts us in a prime spot for serious damages (economically or kinetically). Americans really REALLY need to learn to live with less soon or else the struggle will be intense. -3. Continue this thread.
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Ex- India pellet prices have lost ground at a faster pace for the second consecutive week with prices down $15-20/mt to $225-235/mt CFR China, with some buyers submitting bids as low as $190-200/mt CFR, forcing sellers to pull out of the export market.
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Eric Zuesse A poll in 53 countries by the NATO-affiliated "Alliance of Democracies" found that 83% of Chinese think that China is a "democracy." That's the highest percentage amongst all of the 53 countries surveyed. ... How can politicians and the public be convinced that a mild recession now is a price worth paying for a much worse ...
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"Chinese mills are monitoring the situation as well, they wouldn't offload everything to the export market yet as prices domestically were still higher," a Chinese trader said. "Once demand picks up in China, mills will still find it more profitable to sell within." To continue reading you must login or register with us. It's free and easy to do.
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Given that Chinese officials are actively encouraging lower production. Global crude steel production is likely to decline further in the coming months. Admittedly, [China's daily production] had improved from a decline of 10.50% in July. But it still shows that the agents did not fully explain all the July recession.
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"The latest data from the China Iron & Steel Association shows that inventories at major steel mills stand at 20.5mt, up almost 82% since the start of the year and 30.8% higher year-on-year. Bloated inventories have weighed on domestic steel prices, which has seen margins shrink.
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The growing threat posed by a weakening Chinese economy has exacerbating inflation concerns hitting major developed nations, with fears of a broader recession - partly triggered by high commodity prices - also triggering an oil price plunge. Australia's most valuable export commodity was worth more than $US145 a tonne a month ago, but has slumped.
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More than a third of Chinese steel mills are considering cutting steel production due to rising inventories, a shortage of raw materials and weak downstream demand caused by the coronavirus, according. ... Crude oil futures mostly steady; sentiment still fragile amid recession fears.
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The challenge for Baikalsk is to invest in hotels, restaurants and other labor-intensive, less-polluting businesses so the mill remains a permanent victim of the green recession but the town ...
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Apr 20, 2022The spot price of iron ore for delivery to north China, as assessed by commodity price reporting agency Argus, was $149.80 a tonne on Tuesday. While this is off its peak of $160.30 a tonne on...
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General Mills this week lifted its forecasts on a couple of key sales and profit metrics after seeing US pantry-loading boost demand. On Wednesday (13 May), chief executive Jeff Harmening outlined ...
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The Italian external sector is facing headwinds as well. Italian export growth over the forecast horizon is hampered by the coronavirus, slowing global demand and more specifically by weakness in important trading partners (figure 11), a run of the mill recession in the US end-2020 and a Brexit early 2021 that will push the UK into recession.
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Faced with falling demand and too much capacity, coal mines have shut down in western China. In the country's northeastern rust belt, Kroeber says, "Instead of the steel plant closing down, they...
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The spectre of a global recession fed an already clouded demand outlook for iron ore in China, the world's biggest steel producer, where mills have idled dozens of blast furnaces recently in a bid ...
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Stocks whiplashed on Thursday following Wednesday's 800-point rout. Wall Street is grappling with growing fears of a recession as well as concerns over China's threat to retaliate if the Trump ...
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Another one of our recession-proof stocks on our list is from the energy sector. And that's a good reason to look at Exelon ( NASDAQ: EXC), the largest utility company in the United States. People will still need to cool and heat their homes and Exelon has a geographic reach that includes over 10 million customers.
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General Mills' (GIS-0.57%) ... First, macro headwinds -- including the U.S.-China trade war, COVID-19 crisis, and high unemployment rates -- caused many investors to buy defensive stocks with high ...
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7 days agoDeutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing warned Wednesday that a recession in Germany is inevitable, and urged the country's leaders to accelerate its decoupling from China. In a speech at the ...
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China's next recession may be lurking on its balance sheets. Quartz - Mary Hui • 6h. China eked out 0.4% in GDP growth in the second quarter from a year ago. As much as authorities have tried to put a rosy spin on this news, the economy isn't looking encouraging. A wave of mortgage boycotts is roiling the property market, a rural banking ...
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By Cassandra Profita (OPB) March 6, 2014 1 a.m. Tillamook mill manager Mark Elston says without efforts to export lumber to China, his mill would have gone under. Cassandra Profita Mark Elston...
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May 19, 2021China was the only major economy to dodge a recession last year when the pandemic hit, but it launched a $500 billion infrastructure-led plan to support its recovery from the slowest rate of growth...
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Jan 10, 2010Official data showed 17.7% year-on-year rise in Chinese exports after 13 months of decline ... China's steel mills undertook a massive production drive in 2009, partly in response to a $585bn ...
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There is the well-known story of how the Empire State Building, which was 102 stories, became the symbol of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The design for the Empire State Building was changed fifteen times to make it the world's tallest building as a symbol of hope during the Great Depression. Construction began on March 17, 1930, and the ...
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Steel price snaps two-day uptrend at two-week high, holds lower ground of late. Strong US inflation propelled hawkish Fed bets, concerns over economic slowdown. Doubts over PBOC fix, China's ...
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Jul 15, 2022China's economy is set for a weak recovery and a recession cannot be ruled out, warned economist Stephen Roach. "It's tempting to say that there'll be a repeat of what we saw in 2020, when the ...
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The stock's price increased 6.6% in 2008 and 16% in 2009. The annual payout of $1.92 per share offers investors a 3.0% yield. Dividends have grown more than 10% a year over past 10 years. The...
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In Wu'an city in Hebei province, 16 mills will be closed for 20-30 days, according to Chinese media reports. Scattered reports of mill closures and output cuts over the last week suggest that ...
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China has set its economic growth target for 2022 at "around 5.5%," down from "over 6%" last year. Small and midsize enterprises that have supported the economy are facing tougher circumstances ...
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Oct 13, 2021The order will cover steel mills in its pollution campaign focused on 28 cities in the capital city Beijing and nearby regions, as well as another eight cities in Shandong and Hebei, which altogether churned out more than 40% of China's total crude steel output in 2020, National Bureau of Statistics data showed.
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Timber giants, squeezed by the U.S. housing slump and global recession, are starting to stir again in Canada's north woods thanks to insatiable demand from China.
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Some businesses may have very few levers to pull to improve their situation entering a recession. Alliance Lumber, a $260 million distributor of lumber products in Glendale, Arizona, saw revenue decimated by 90% during the Great Recession. The company laid off all of its hourly employees (the bulk of its workforce) and management took pay cuts.
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Molson Coors. Molson Coors, which owns Coors, Miller and other brands, has had structural problems for some time now, and that's never a good sign when investing during a recession. The coronavirus pandemic hasn't done the business any favors. Molson Coors had shares down over 25% through mid-August — all while the broader market saw a 4% ...
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For the first time, China is facing a dreaded prospect: the inverted bond yield curve. The phenomenon, in which long-term interest rates sink below short-term interest rates, has caused some ...
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JPMorgan analysts predict that prices will average $140 per tonne in the third quarter of 2022 and $125 in the fourth quarter. Chinese President Xi Is Still Driven to Keep the Recovery on Track The news had such an impact that predictions of iron ore falling below $100 almost turned out to be true.
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Like national recessions, a consensus on the definition of a global recession has yet to be reached. The World Bank's main indicator of a worldwide downturn is multiple major countries' economies contracting at the same time, as well as other evidence of weak global economic growth. Global GDP has declined this year following the war in ...
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Then, the Great Recession hit. With roots dating back to 1922, the paper mill managed to survive throughout the decades in spite of a series of other economic challenges and a range of different ...
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But perhaps the most humorous comment from these old articles appeared in one entitled: "Steel Mills End May With Biggest Production Cut Since '58 Recession" in which the author discussed ...
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1 day agoChina's probably closer to the end of its recession than Europe which is really just starting out. But that's going to be a painful divergence. We think over 2023 we haven't seen it in 2022.
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