Oil and steel prices hit manufacturers
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MANUFACTURERS suffered their worst month for more than a year in September, new figures revealed today in yet another sign interest rates may have reached their peak.
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The sharp rise in oil prices which recently creeps towards $60 per barrel has put many energy industries and those reliant on energy on the edge for fear of the adverse affects of escalating prices.
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Increased Chinese steel exports give the industry indigestion.
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Stocks failed to sustain a rally on the second-to-last day of the year as a drop in Alcoa pulled down the Dow. Steelmakers including Nucor slumped amid concern exports from China may create a supply glut.
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A sharp slide in global metals markets hammered industrial and mining stocks such as JFE Holdings and BHP Billiton Thursday, while oil prices crawled back toward record highs.
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NEW YORK - Stocks were mixed Wednesday as a lower reading on manufacturing activity and rising oil prices chilled an early spate of bargain hunting. Technology shares inched higher despite brokerage downgrades of two semiconductor companies    With trading light, the markets were slow to react to the August reading of the Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing index, which declined to 59.0 in August, lower than the 59.8 percent expected on Wall Street...
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OIL prices tumbled yesterday as the market took fright at signals that the cost of energy may be choking back the rate of growth in the economy.
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Led primarily by price increases in key industries such as oil, chemicals, wood and primary metals, manufacturers shipped a record $50.
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Shares of insurers and manufacturers with damaged operations fell while construction firms rose.
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UK manufacturers did not raise their prices as much as analysts had forecast in June, official figures show.
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Shares of US Steel and other steel producers rallied yesterday after Japanese car maker Nissan disclosed steel shortages are causing a five-day production halt at three plants.
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NEW YORK -- A worse-than-expected manufacturing report and falling natural gas prices pulled the plug yesterday on a two-day oil rally that saw prices jump more than $4 a barrel.
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Oil and metals prices fell on Monday,   extending recent losses and weighing on the shares of energy   firms and currencies of commodity exporters such as Australia   and South Africa.
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Manufacturers&#39; business confidence in the three months to October deteriorated to its weakest level since the middle of last year as input prices, particularly oil, remained high, a survey shows.
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US oil prices have hit new highs on fears that a shipping strike in Norway could severely disrupt supplies from the world&#39;s third largest exporter.
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STOCKHOLM - Swedish household electrical goods manufacturer Electrolux warned on Thursday that high prices for inputs of materials and mainly of steel would set back profits more than expected this year.
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Business & money: Nigerian strike and Iran worries add to pressure as cost of crude oil rises to its highest level this year.