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...For several years, for instance, these companies have shipped large quantities of industrial materials and equipment on ships from Russia through the port of Douala in Cameroon....
...Equipment maker John Deere has a reputation of being the Apple of tractors — farmers want to be able to fix these computers-on-wheels themselves....
...Astra subsidiary United Tractors bought a majority stake in Indonesia’s Martabe Gold Mine to boost the portion of earnings from gold. That worked out well financially....
...Once, when the rangers confiscated a tractor used to illegally clear land, villagers set up a roadblock and demanded its return....
...The constraint is not equipment; it is a lack of drivers. Autonomous vehicles may one day rule the roads, but in 2018 every truck still requires at least one human in the cab....
...Among US agricultural stocks, tractor maker Deere & Co was down 1.2 per cent, while Caterpillar was down 1.6 per cent....
...The company, which sells farm equipment, home and garden supplies, vehicle accessories and animal care products, also delivered downbeat forecasts for the third quarter....
...Mani Iyer, CEO of Mahindra USA, which makes tractors, scooters and farm equipment, said: “As US subsidiaries in the United States, we have made significant investment both in terms of our own companies as...
...lower its equipment sales outlook for the year....
...Mr Trump has said he has a friend who “always orders Caterpillar, and recently he ordered Komatsu tractors from Japan because they’ve cut the yen . . . to such an extent that it was virtually impossible...
...The Japanese company actually manufactures construction and mining equipment at three factories in the US where it employs several thousand employees....
...Deere shares fell sharply after the largest maker of tractors and other agricultural equipment cut its sales and profit forecast for this year....
...The potential for Mexico is vast: Cidac has identified white goods, electronics and computing, plastics, metalworking, transport equipment, furniture, electronic equipment and medical equipment as attractive...
...to spend on new tractors and other machines such as combine harvesters....
...Investment is too low Companies may not be investing enough in new equipment and ideas....
...A recall of about 7,000 tractors overshadowed reported earnings growth that beat expectations....
...Venkatesan points to John Deere, the Illinois-based agricultural equipment maker, which developed a compact, affordable tractor for India that it now exports widely. McDonald’s also innovated....
...John Deere shares slipped 3.5 per cent to $90.68 even though the farm equipment maker reported record profits for the fourth quarter, as demand for its tractors in the US and Canada were driven by high...
...Tractor sales have risen as much as 30 per cent in the past two years....
..., tractors, boats and airplanes....
...Kubota Corp, Japan’s leading tractor maker, lost 2.9 per cent to Y766 and SMC Corp, a pneumatic equipment maker, fell 2.5 per cent 13,210....
...However, he stressed that the Sagami plant would not be closed, but retooled to make other components for Caterpillar equipment sold primarily in Asia....
...When Deere and Alcoa shed hundreds of jobs in the downturn, the arsenal hired 3,000 people as it churned out equipment for use in Iraq and Afghanistan....
...US Steel, for example, has one for its vehicles, including a natural-gas fuelled tractor, at a plant in Pennsylvania....
...A weak dollar also tends to boost technology hardware and equipment. Yet according to Citi, a stronger dollar favours tech software and services and also boosts healthcare stocks....
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