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...Apple has captured Gen Z in the US so thoroughly that younger consumers fear being socially ostracised for not having an iPhone, a trend that will allow the tech giant to gain market share across multiple product...
...It will also sell its wood and lumber products business, Idaho Timber, in two deals for a combined $239mn....
...A version of this article was first published on May 24 by Nikkei Asia. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...An escalating conflict between Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping has prompted the US to impose tariffs — taxes that raise the cost of exporting to the US — on Made in China products from...
...The show alleged that Chinese-made laminate products sold by Lumber Liquidators in the US emitted unsafe levels of formaldehyde....
...“[The trade war] is a challenge for a state like Arkansas that depends on exports, whether it’s agricultural products or other manufacturing products....
...At the edge of the coastal city of Sihanoukville, where Chinese casinos and other developments dominate the landscape, sits Cambodia’s only deep-sea port, a product of Japan’s two-decade, multibillion-dollar...
..., paint, carpeting Auto parts and tires Home appliances including air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers Home electronics inc....
...Thousands of trucks shuttle along it daily carrying everything from lumber to fizzy drinks. Their drivers are well served. Three truck stops offer showers, burgers, video games and diesel fuel....
...The biggest US home improvement retailer is benefiting from a robust US housing market, while some of its products, such as lumber, tend to be much less susceptible to competition from the likes of Amazon...
...Embattled flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators’ shares slid 18 per cent on Monday after it posted bigger-than-expected losses under a lingering legal cloud from a 2015 scandal involving some of its products...
...The move comes amid heightened trade tensions between the US and Canada over products including dairy and lumber....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on March 28 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It would lumber promoters of tax schemes with financial risks where currently they garner only rewards....
...Lumber Liquidators shares also climbed after the company said it reached a settlement with a California regulator relating to sales of certain laminate flooring....
...Shares of Lumber Liquidators fell 17 per cent to $21.10 after the flooring company said its chief executive Robert Lynch unexpectedly resigned....
...Lumber Liquidators gained 12 per cent to $16.36, after reaching a settlement with the Department of Justice to end a probe that began in 2013 over its imports of flooring products....
...– Sacramento pension fund goes Lumber Liquidators. – Bear shits on the woods. According to the Journal’s anonymous sources, the biggest problem has been low returns....
...He argues the academics used an uninvestable index, tracking milk, lumber and other markets too small to absorb much investor money....
...In their place, according to calculations by brokerages including Nomura and Daiwa, could come makers of skincare products, pens, and online games — industries in which the best players have boosted returns...
...HP is pressing ahead with plans to split in November into HP Inc, focused on PCs and printers, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, centered around corporate hardware, software and services....
...Last month she signed the deal to buy brands to turn Imps into the US’ third largest seller of tobacco products....
...“Spilling a boxcar of celery or lumber is obviously not the same thing as a rail car of crude.”...
...It said in an emailed statement it had “policies and processes in place for the sourcing, harvesting and manufacturing of all of its products”, but did not respond to a request to detail its supply chain...
...He is hopeful that the US housing market’s recovery will signal a boost for lumber products. “Like any commodity, it ebbs and flows with the market....
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