Articles by Chris Sleight

Global equipment sales hit record high
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Published on: 25 March 2019
The market exceeded 1.1 million units last year, with a retail value in excess of $110 billion.
Cautious optimism from crane webinar
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Published on: 12 December 2011
Business prospects for the lifting and Heavy transport sector should improve in 2012 according to SC&RA/KHL Group webinar.
Terex COO and Cranes president resign
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Published on: 05 January 2011
President & chief operating officer Tom Riordan and Terex Cranes president Richard Nichols to leave the company.
Cranes division props up Terex
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Published on: 22 October 2009
Despite a 38% fall in thrid quarter revenues, Terex Cranes stayed in profit and maintained a US$ 1 billion+ order backlog
ACT Business May 2009: Up-tick
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Published on: 06 April 2009
New policy initiatives to improve the economy helped the markets to their longest rally for 12 months in March and early April. Chris Sleight reports.
ACT Business April 2009: New low
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Published on: 06 March 2009
Share prices continued to fall in February with the banking sector on both sides of the Atlantic reporting another round of eye-watering losses. This pushed the American heavy equipment sector to a new low. Chris Sleight reports.
ACT Business News March 2009: Results disappoint
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Published on: 13 February 2009
Weak fourth quarter results drove shares in the heavy equipment sector to an all-time low in early February.
Shares steady
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Published on: 07 May 2008
By early April there were signs that share prices were stabilizing after a punishing fi rst quarter. The markets even stayed steady through the near collapse of Bear Stearns. Chris Sleight reports.
Turning point?
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Published on: 07 March 2008
Despite all the ups and downs, 2007 was a positive year for stock markets. The heavy equipment sector did particularly well, but whether the gains can be maintained remains to be seen. Chris Sleight reports.
Rollercoaster
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Published on: 04 March 2008
Late November saw some big one-day swings in share prices, on a range of slightly odd pieces of news. For example, there was a marked rally following the announcement that the beleaguered Citigroup would raise new capital by selling shares to the government of Abu Dhabi.
Ups and downs
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Published on: 04 March 2008
Another 0.25 percentage point interest rate cut gave markets a lift in early November, but no sooner had this been announced then bad news from the banking sector took what steam there was out of the rally.