Asian exporters face slower growth abroad, high raw-material prices, growing competition from China and diminishing returns from cost cutting.
Small and medium-sized businesses face high raw-materials prices and rising labour costs, but miss out on the low electricity prices and tax advantages enjoyed by big firms.
On Wednesday, Credit Suisse analyst Mark Flannery lowered his year-end forecast for U.S. ethanol capacity to 9.5 billion gallons from 10.0 billion gallons, citing high raw material costs.
Commodity producers, such as Russia, have benefited from very high raw-materials prices whereas for consumers, such as China and India, the gains from higher global activity have more than offset higher commodity costs.
Ballarpur's chemicals division had been dumping high-priced raw material on the company, also part of Thapar Group.
Prices did hit a fresh two-week high in the early going, but then backed off the daily high when the raw commodity sector and stock market came under selling pressure just after the U.S. markets opened.
And yet most of the change has been due to high prices for the raw materials that Brazil sells to the world.
To meet a high domestic demand, more raw materials may be imported to the United States.
Yum has taken a hit in China, where they derive a big portion of their revenues after regulators started a probe into allegedly high chemical levels in their raw chicken.
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Wall Street seemed to be reacting to news of new stimulus measures from China, whose growing economy had been sucking in raw materials and high-value-added manufactured goods from around the world in recent years.
REEs are essential raw materials for the fabrication of high-performance magnets in hybrid cars and wind-turbines.
The theory behind this practice is that a brokerage firm invests its time and money training raw globs of clay into becoming high-powered, professional stockbrokers.
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Almost a billion "points" were collected during the Baillie survey and this raw data was processed to create high-resolution models showing field boundaries, walls and ancient monuments.
The RAW data format provides pure data for high-resolution images, and uses lossless compression for more compact, yet uncompromised, data files.
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That report pushed the U.S. dollar index to a fresh seven-week high, which in turn helped to sink most raw commodity markets, including the precious metals.
In the case quoted above, the CIO believed that his IT department had been on a storage buying binge and it was high time to in fact use more of the raw disk capacity on the machine room floor that was already powered-up and spinning.
Specifically, How Money Walks ably reveals the raw numbers showing an exodus of income from high tax to low tax states.
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The academic side of his nature compelled him to scientifically research all major dietary theories high protein, low protein, high carb, low carb, vegetarian, vegan, raw foods, etc.
First, the high U.S. corporate demand for foreign labor and raw materials alone causes a trade imbalance.
In 1931 American chemical engineer Samuel Kistler invented the lightest known solid--an aerogel--by drying a form of silicon dioxide (a raw material for glass) under intense pressure and high temperature.
While food businesses on the production end have benefited from the high prices, companies near the consumer end have suffered from rising raw material costs.
Whenvever people talk about percentages when the raw numbers are readily available, my bs detector goes into high gear.
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As one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, supporting jungle, high mountains and coastal desert, Peru calls upon a formidable stash of raw materials to concoct its cuisine.
For the past few decades the conventional wisdom in finance has been that investors don't receive any extra return for putting up with higher levels of raw volatility but that they do enjoy excess returns for owning high-beta stocks.
The VG900 is compatible with E-mount lenses, and it's a fine stills shooter (like the A99, it's capable of 14-bit RAW captures), but it's best suited for high-end video production, where it offers 1080p recording at 24 or 60 frames-per-second through a sensor that features 45 times the area of a conventional camcorder.
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Hitmakers began chasing a high-gloss, almost clinical ideal of perfection, valuing production dazzle over raw emotion.
But there were also high hopes, fuelled by the thought of vast quantities of underused brainpower and raw materials that were now joining the world economy.
And it means that high oil prices and rising costs for commodities like steel, copper and other raw materials are finally resulting in higher prices for things like machinery, bicycles and coffee-makers the stuff that companies and consumers buy.
Pay a high enough price in relation to rental value, and you're getting a raw deal, even if the price holds up.
But it is incredibly hard to value raw metals, Mr Goodhart argued, so the cost of using them in trade is high.
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