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  • LiLo sued for $5 million

    Lindsay Lohan has been sued for 5 million dollars by a clothing company, DNAM The erratic behavior of the actress made it difficult to promote and sell her 6126 leggings line for which the company is demanding 5 million dollars, Radar Online reported. The company's lawsuit states that Lohan's leggings suffered in sales because the buyers were reluctant to associate themselves with her ...

  • Brazils Embraer to sell 40 jets to US airline

    Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer said Tuesday it reached a deal to sell 40 E175 passenger jets to US airline SkyWest for nearly $1.7 billion. The planes have a seating capacity of up to 76 passengers. An additional 60 orders are subject to SkyWest being awarded contracts with major US airline partners, while the agreement also includes options for 100 other E175s, meaning the deal could ...

  • China Manufacturing Contracts As New Orders Slump

    health of the factory sector, fell to a seven-month low of 49.6 in May from 50.4 in April. Readings below 50 indicate contraction of the sector. Economists expected the index to remain unchanged from March's level. New orders decreased in May reversing April's gains, while the rate of decline in export orders slowed. Manufacturers shed jobs at a faster pace this month, the survey ...

  • Chinas manufacturing slows to 7-month low HSBC

    China's manufacturing activity fell into contraction for the first time since October, a preliminary survey from the HSBC showed.The HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for May fell to 49.6 in May, dropping under the boom-bust line of 50 for the first time since October, according to figures released by HSBC on Thursday.Qu Hongbin, chief economist of the HSBC ...

  • China manufacturing shrinks in May

    Manufacturing activity in China contracted in May for the first time in seven months, HSBC says, in another sign of the weakness of recovery in the world's second-largest economy.The banking giant's preliminary purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 49.6 this month from a final 50.4 in April, putting it below the 50 mark that indicates contraction. A reading above signals ...


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  • Futuris caught up in Ford manufacturing withdrawal

    SA Elders says it is assessing how its operations will be affected in the longer term by Ford's decision to end manufacturing in Australia from late 2016.Elders owns parts maker Futuris Automotive and says it does not expect there to be any profit implications for the current financial year to September 30 or revenue implications before October 2016, when Ford plans to end production at ...

  • First China manufacturing shrinkage in 7 months HSBC

    BEIJING (AFP) - Manufacturing activity in China contracted in May for the first time in seven months, HSBC said Thursday, in another sign of the weakness of recovery in the world's second-largest economy.The banking giant's preliminary purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 49.6 this month from a final 50.4 in April, putting it below the 50 mark that indicates contraction. A ...

  • Ford to cease Australian manufacturing

    Ford will end its Australian manufacturing operations in three years, resulting in 1200 job losses at its two Victorian plants.The carmaker's plants at Broadmeadows in Melbourne's north and Geelong, west of Melbourne, will close their doors in October 2016, resulting in the loss of 650 and 510 jobs respectively.Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano says the cost of ...

  • Ford closure a manufacturing watershed Ai

    Ford Australia boss Robert Graziano has announced the company will cease manufacturing in Australia by October 2016 with the loss of 1,200 ...

  • Survey shows China manufacturing contracting

    HSBC economist Hongbin Qu in a statement, "The cooling manufacturing activities in May reflected slower domestic demand and ongoing external headwinds." He said that showed a possible "downside risk to China's fragile growth recovery" while signs of weakness in the labor market "call for more policy support" from the ...

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