Metal manufacturing
China factory activity edges up in November but remains in contraction for eighth month as fading holiday demand drags services
A worker walks past molten steel at a steel factory in Huai’an, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on July 22, 2025. – | Afp | Getty Images China’s factory activity edged higher in November but remained stuck in contraction for the eighth consecutive month, while services weakened as the boost from earlier holidays faded, according […]
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Indonesia’s second-quarter GDP beats expectations with fastest growth in two years
This photo shows a general view of a traffic jam on a main roads leading into the city center of Jakarta on May 8, 2024 as thin haze of pollution sits over the city’s skyline. Bay Ismoyo | Afp | Getty Images Indonesia’s annual economic growth accelerated to 5.12% in the second quarter from 4.87% in the […]
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Australia joins world subsidy race with ‘Future Created in Australia’ system
Australia will start subsidies and incentives modelled on comparable attempts in the United States and Europe to help the giant commodity exporter bolster domestic production and boost industries it sees as crucial to countrywide security. Darrian Traynor | Stringer | Getty Photographs Australia will launch subsidies and incentives modelled on related attempts in the United States […]
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Alcoa to get Australian partner Alumina in $2.2 billion all-stock offer
The Alcoa Corp. Kwinana Alumina Refinery in Kwinana, Australia, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. U.S. aluminum producer Alcoa made a $2.2 billion provide to receive its Australian joint-undertaking partner Alumina Ltd. to consolidate ownership of vital upstream belongings with extended-phrase demand for the steel forecast to rise. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs Alcoa will buy Alumina in an all-stock deal that values the Australian firm at $2.2 […]
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BHP 50 percent-12 months revenue beats expectations, inflation effects recedes
In this photo illustration, BHP emblem of a multinational mining, metals and petroleum enterprise is found shown on a smartphone in front of BHP Billiton symbol. The world’s most significant detailed miner was cautiously optimistic on a need restoration in the created globe in the next 12 months but stated it was not nonetheless very clear […]
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