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IBD'S TOP 10.(A)
Key Chicago Factory Index
Hits 19-Year Low In March
1The Chicago purchasing managers index dived to 35.0, much worse than expected and the worst showing since April 1982. It was 43.2 in February. Readings over 50 suggest growth, below 50 contraction. Subindexes for orders, production and jobs also were at their lowest levels since 1982. The report shows weak manufacturing, especially in auto-related industries in the Midwest.See Vital Signs on A2
Sticky Prices For Gasoline
Predicted For '01 Summer
2Gasoline inventories going into the summer driving season will be the same or less than last year, the Energy Information Administration said, and that means prices will stay high. Refineries will be running at full capacity and the U.S. will be highly dependent on imports. Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission found energy producers withheld fuel supplies to maximize profits, but there was no evidence that they conspired to raise gas prices last summer.
Consumers Slow Spending,
- Soaring power costs.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Purchasing January 11, 2001 700+ words
Soaring power costs are contributing to a cutback in aluminum smelting in the Pacific Northwest--once touted for its plentiful supply of inexpensive...
- Soaring power costs pace power-supply efficiency for servers.
- Magazine article from: EDN March 1, 2007 700+ words
...question for the cutthroat pricing of "silver-box" (closed-frame)-enclosed supplies. With the reality of lifetime power costs making the additional digital-control expenses cost-effective, digital power is also becoming cost-effective because...
- Aiming to beat soaring power costs: research and investment is helping a feed...
- Magazine article from: Poultry World Birchmore, Jimmy November 1, 2008 700+ words
Poultrymeat producers will need to receive an additional 1p/kg for their chicken to offset the increased energy costs in feed manufacture. Therefore, feed suppliers have a responsibility to ensure these increase are minimised by leading the way in researching supply chain efficiencies. "ABN's
- Soaring Power Consumption in Guangdong.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 21, 2005 700+ words
(From SinoCast China Business Daily News) GUANGDONG, July 22, SinoCast -- The controlled power load hit 33.059 million kilowatts in Guangdong grid as a heat wave appeared in this southeast province of China since July 18. This figure was the ninth one in breaking the record of power consumption and
- Soaring power prices affecting industries.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire March 20, 2003 700+ words
(From The Dominion Post) Byline: WATKINS Tracy BIG industrial companies want the Government to call for voluntary power rationing because of soaring wholesale electricity prices. Several, including Comalco, are cutting production and warn of the effect on their businesses and the economy.
- Soaring power consumption drives thermal analysis tools: thermal analysis tools...
- Magazine article from: Electronic Design Maniwa, Tets September 2, 2002 700+ words
Recently, one industry analyst noted that server farms in Seattle are dissipating as much power as the rest of the Seattle metro area, including the Boeing plants in Everett. Also, 25% of the total cost of their operation is for power and air conditioning. The idea of electronics being a low-cost,
- Washington State Wins Settlement over Soaring Power Prices.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News November 12, 2002 700+ words
By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 12--The state attorney general's two-year antitrust investigation into the runaway power markets of 2000 and 2001 has yielded a first settlement -- a $15 million payment to be made by Oklahoma-based Williams Energy Marketing
- Pacific Northwest Officials Want Regulators to Act on Soaring Power Rates.
- News wire article from: Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) March 12, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Hal Bernton Mar. 4--In December 1999, Seattle City Light paid an average of $34 for each megawatt hour of electricity purchased on regional wholesale markets. A year later, the utility was paying an average of $323 per megawatt hour. This nearly tenfold increase reflected tight power
- Cutting power costs starts with basic analyses. (how gas and oil production...
- Magazine article from: The Oil and Gas Journal Paik, Mike October 7, 1996 700+ words
...departments should already be reducing their power costs. Regardless of how U.S. deregulation of electricity finally shakes out, power costs are a large portion of total operating...complexities. These is no magic to reducing power costs. It is simply a matter of working at...
- Fuel, Purchased Power Costs Continue to Drive TVA Expenses Up.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 18, 2006 700+ words
...about 14 percent, fuel and purchased power costs increased 37 percent, or $621 million...The increase in fuel and purchased power costs accounted for more than two thirds of...higher power rates. Fuel and purchased power costs totaled $833 million for the third...
