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The guidance on that metric, which measures revenue per available cruise day, “is likely just enough to keep the buy-side happy,” Clarke wrote.
From MarketWatch
Statistics Canada data shows freight traffic from U.S. rail connections declined year-over-year for a ninth consecutive month in October, falling 8.6% to 3.2 million metric tons.
Scientists who study glaciers tend to focus on ice volume loss rather than individual glaciers, says glaciologist Lander Van Tricht, because that metric has the more dire global consequences.
From Slate
Headline trading profit—a company preferred metric—was 159 million pounds compared with 170 million pounds.
DFC's $553-million investment, made alongside $200 million provided by the Development Bank of Southern Africa, is expected to increase Lobito's transportation capacity ten-fold to 4.6 million metric tons as well as reduce the cost of transporting critical minerals by up to 30 percent, it said in a statement.
From Barron's
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