Slight growth in Romania’s telecom sector gives hope of recovery
Romanian telecom market is projected to reach around EUR 3.6bn in 2012, a little more than the revenue of EUR 3.5bn achieved last year. The voice and cable segments which are matured business are...
View ArticleFlood disaster in Thailand landed steel industry in murky waters
The global steel industry was faced with many challenges in 2011 and H1/2012, arising from the adverse external environment, soft international steel demand and volatile raw material prices. Thailand...
View ArticleRising number of vacant homes haunted by inflation in India?
The Indian economy experienced an economic slowdown with high inflation in fiscal year 2012. India's property industry suffered a major slowdown with declining sales and rising inventory levels in the...
View ArticlePrice war between low cost carriers in Malaysia
Malaysia's GDP grew by 5.4% in the second quarter of fiscal year 2012 backed by reviving exports. There was a six months lull in passenger traffic in the Malaysian aviation industry. It grew by 4.2%...
View ArticleConstruction industry in SEE still struggling to emerge from eurozone debt...
Construction activity contracted in most counties in Southeast Europe in the first half of 2012, continuing a trend from 2011 as the ongoing instability in the eurozone, the major market for the...
View ArticleMobile internet service creating waves in Poland
he Polish telecom market inched up by 1.1% y/y to nearly PLN 43bn (EUR 10.4bn) in 2011; the moderate expansion of the internet and mobile segments managed to offset the poor performance of voice call...
View ArticleRomania’s economy wears weary outlook
Romania's economy increased by 0.7% y/y in H1 and will end with negative for the year, less than -1%. Bullish expectations were ruined by poor use of EU funds and by below-average agricultural...
View ArticleIndonesia’s steel industry growing strong
As the country with the largest economy and highest population in ASEAN, Indonesia's share of steel consumption reached 20.9% making it the second largest steel consuming country in the region. With...
View ArticleVietnam’s steel industry badly hit by depressing global economy
2011 saw unpredictable events in the European sovereign debt crisis depressing the global economy. In Vietnam, unstable macroeconomic conditions and negative impacts of the global economy caused...
View ArticleImbalance in demand and supply rocks steel prices in India
The Indian economy experienced an economic slowdown with high inflation in fiscal year 2012. India's steel industry also suffered a minor slowdown but managed to record a y/y consumption growth of...
View ArticleCement industry going through difficult times in India
Over the past two years, the cement industry in India has experienced a subdued demand growth and declining operating rates, compare a 7% growth during FY12 against 5.7% in FY11. Escalating industrial...
View ArticlePharmaceutical industry in Singapore recuperating after ill spell
Singapore's economy saw a period of subdued growth in last three quarters due to slowdown in exports growth. However, the Singaporean pharmaceutical industry continued its V-shaped recovery in year...
View ArticleMalaysia’s oil & gas sector clinched world’s no.2 title
Malaysia became the world's second largest LNG exporting country in 2011. Exports of petroleum products and LNG in the first six months of 2012 have reached 8.49mn tons and 11.39mn tons respectively....
View ArticleOnline media tops as preferred advertising choice in Poland
Poland's advertising market growth slowed down in 2011 and projections for 2012 are rather pessimistic. After a poor performance Q1, the Euro 2012 soccer championship did not show the expected...
View ArticleChina’s steel production on the rise or perhaps over producing
Cumulative revenue for the industry during the first six months of 2012 was RMB 6.14tr, or 26.21% of 2011's annual revenue. The industry was reported to have made no profit in the first six months of...
View ArticleConstruction industry losing ground in Romania
Construction works volume index grew by 9.1% y/y in Q2 and by 6.8% y/y in H1/2012, according to official statistics. The works for engineering projects surged by 17.1% y/y in Q2 and 18.1% y/y in H1,...
View ArticleChina’s steel production on the rise or perhaps over producing
Cumulative revenue for the industry during the first six months of 2012 was RMB 6.14tr, or 26.21% of 2011's annual revenue. The industry was reported to have made no profit in the first six months of...
View ArticleIndonesia’s steel industry growing strong
Indonesia's steel consumption grew robustly by 22.4% y/y to 10.95mn metric tonnes in 2011 in line with the growth in domestic steel demand. As the country with the largest economy and highest...
View ArticleIndian consumers more fascinated by imported electronic equipment
The country ranks very low regarding electronic equipment manufacturing, at 1.5% of the total world production. According to Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), more than 50%...
View ArticleIndian healthcare industries show resilience in the face of slowdown by...
However, Indian healthcare industry continued to show resilience in the face of slowdown with leading healthcare players recording a double digit growth, both in revenues and net profits. The industry...
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