All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Industrial

Commodities such as base metals, oil and agricultural products have enjoyed unprecedented increases inthe last 3 years can it continue? What will the effect of continuing price increases be or a potential drop? Can consumers sustain the increases?    

Base metal prices have been somewhat bearish as of late as have other commodity prices such as oil and gas.  Speculators often react and overreact to daily news items forcing large swings in commodity pricing. However the greatest real effect on commodity prices will be whether Chinese buyers come...

- Chinese manufacturers continue to be unfairly subsidized - North American Manufacturers will be negatively affected - Will Canadian and US governments do anything

Until recently, the blockbuster model has worked for the ethical pharmaceutical companies, but with about $80 billion of ethical drug patents expiring in the next four years and with not much in the pipeline of major pharmaceuticals their business model needs a re-look. Major pharmaceuticals need to...

DOW and  rohm & hass   existence competes  in Water treatment field and other field ,after DOW buy rohm and hass ,DOW will have competitive power more in water treatment field and the coating material field. For answering the sources of energy problem,Gain the raw material...

Dow will acquire Rohm and Haas for $78/share, $18.8 billion (other reports list the deal as $15.3 billion). This acquisition will make Dow the world’s leading specialty chemicals and advanced materials company.

Challenges are the key to innovations and growth. US economy has been hard hit and spending large sums domesticaly is a true economic stimulus the US cannot afford to overlook. Technology stagnates when capital is removed, challenges are minimal, and innovations required for success are mediocre. The...

First, Dow moved its upstream chemical businesses into a JV with the Kuwaitis, to protect itself against increasing feedstock prices.  Now it is acquiring Rohm & Haas to position itself as a downstream 'solution provider'.  Some may see this as a high-risk strategy.  But the real...

Sanctioning Iran or Zimbabwe or any such nations is a bad approach to politics as well as economics. It is true as the writer says that the US efforts on sanctions are not coordinated, worse , these measures are never properly enforced and loopholes benefit a select few. More importantly, ecnomic sanctions,...

Significant overlaps in the Acrylic Acid chain ranging from monomers through to polymers particularly in North America will require some portfolio adjustments. There will be further industry changes as a result. Dow brings some key raw material synergies.