Now, more than ever, outdoor living is in! The COVID-19 pandemic has prioritized how we view and use our homes, said Leslie Adkins, vice president of marketing for Trex Company (TREX), the worlds largest manufacturer of wood-alternative decking and railing and a leader in high-performance, low-maintenance outdoor living products.
A global chip shortage is choking the production of machines used to "mine" bitcoin, a sector dominated by China, sending prices of the computer equipment soaring as a surge in the cryptocurrency drives demand. The scramble is pricing out smaller miners and accelerating an industry consolidation that could see deep-pocketed players, many outside China, profit from the bitcoin bull run.
* Pandemic still weighing heavily on Europe's economy. * Factories faring better than service sector. * Employment and prices still falling. * Vaccine rollout seen key for recovery. By Jonathan Cable. Economic activity in the euro zone shrank markedly in January as stringent lockdowns to contain the coronavirus pandemic hit the bloc's dominant service industry hard.
Activity in Germany's services sector shrank for the fourth month in a row in January, as a hard lockdown shuttered most non-essential businesses as well as schools in Europe's biggest economy, a survey showed on Friday. IHS Markit's flash Purchasing Managers' Index of activity in the services sector fell to 46.8 from 47.0 in December's final reading.
Today, the Aluminum Association released a series of policy documents laying out priorities to support a strong U.S. aluminum industry. We congratulate President Biden and look forward to working with him and his team in the coming months and years, said Tom Dobbins, president & CEO of the Aluminum Association.
CGS, a global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services, announced today that it has been named to the Top 20 Experiential Learning Technologies Companies.
Mexico's president on Thursday forcefully defended his drive to strengthen the state's role in the energy sector, seeking to temper investor hopes that he might give ground if the new U.S. government under President Joe Biden takes up their cause.
IVANS®, a division of Applied Systems®, today announced the results for Q4 and year-end 2020 IVANS Index, the insurance industrys premium renewal rate index.
Construction of new homes in the U.S. increased in December for the fourth consecutive month, reaching the highest level since September 2006, signaling the housing market ended the year on a strong footing, data from the Commerce Department showed Thursday. Here are the main takeaways from the report:. --Housing starts, a measure of U.S. homebuilding, increased by 5.8% in December compared with November, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.669 million.
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