bottoming out

semen

The failure of state-owned PT Semen Gresik (SG), the country’s largest cement maker, to control its “renegade” PT Semen Padang subsidiary should be blamed partly for the flight of almost US$340 million capital when Mexico’s Cemex cement group quit Indonesia in 2006.

Geneva (ANTARA News) - Growth in imports posted by major Asian trading nations in February may be a sign that a world trade slump is "bottoming out," the World Trade Organisation said Monday. Following successive months of decline, import data for China, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam turned positive in February, noted the WTO.