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...Motor car crashes have instead become so common that they are no longer news....
...It has an impressive range of up to 50km, and few alternatives can match it for raw adrenaline fun. £1,569, evolveskateboards.co.uk BMC Alpenchallenge AMP Cross ONE bike This Swiss bike brand doesn’t skimp...
...Electric arc furnaces that melt down scrap, rather than converting raw materials, are smaller, more flexible and emit a fraction of the CO2 of blast furnaces....
...Perhaps the most poignant illustration of this is found in the birthplace of mass production: the Ford Motor Company....
...That ended the US’s status as a captive market and shrank the discount that east coast refiners had enjoyed for their raw material....
...Person of the Year 2009 Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan chief executive, ‘King of the Street’ 2010 As chief executive, Alan Mulally steered Ford Motor from a $12.7bn loss in 2006, when he took over, to a $6.6bn...
...BP says US tax reforms will cause $1.5bn hit General Motors General Motors is expected to report strong year-end results....
...On July 7, the Polaris Leader, a car carrier chartered by Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen, arrived at the port....
...The amount VW spent on raw materials, supplies, merchandise and services rose from less than €80bn in 2010 to €144bn last year. VW declined to comment....
...In Seoul, shipbuilders suffered heavy losses over fears the demand for large bulk carriers will slow amid easing commodity demand from China....
...The remaining $7bn will be invested in Birla’s mobile phone carrier, its pulp business, and its viscose staple fibres unit....
...The effect of the earthquake “on the procurement of raw materials and components has for the most part abated”, said Masami Yamamoto, president of Fujitsu....
...Resource stocks sank on worries that slowing global growth would damp demand for raw materials....
...China’s Spring Airlines to raise $1.2bn in IPO Spring Airlines aims to raise more than $1.2bn in an initial public offering in the first quarter of 2012 as China’s sole budget carrier wants to double its...
...“Should oil stabilise and capacity discipline continue shares may rise,” said UBS, which named IAG as its top pick among the flag carriers....
...In Shanghai, the Composite index rose 1.9 per cent to a seven-month peak of 3,086.94 as raw materials stocks attracted demand....
...Visa was down 1.5 per cent to $72.22 and MasterCard, due to report earnings tomorrow, lost 3.6 per cent to $203.95 after speculation that US mobile carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless could be planning to...
...“Our theory was that the oil price would come down and oil is a vast majority component of a low-cost carrier’s total cost,” he said....
...At the start of the 20th century they were typically made up of about five raw materials: wood, rubber, steel, glass and brass....
...Toyota Motor was also lifted by its impressive US sales figures on Tuesday. It rose 2.9 per cent on Friday to Y3,960 for a weekly rise of 2.1 per cent....
...Hefty gains for raw materials prices helped Jiangxi Copper China’s largest producer of the metal, gain 6.2 per cent to Rmb40.08....
...Toshiba wants to secure raw materials for semiconductors....
...apparent withdrawal of David Morgan, the former Westpac chief, the contest for a replacement for Mr Argus is said to have narrowed to two other BHP non-executives – Jacques Nasser, the former chief of Ford Motor...
...●FT Comment The chemical sector has shared in the general economic despondency of late as demand slackens from the sector’s largest end-users in motor manufacturing and construction....
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