Articles by Chris Sleight

The market exceeded 1.1 million units last year, with a retail value in excess of $110 billion.

Business prospects for the lifting and Heavy transport sector should improve in 2012 according to SC&RA/KHL Group webinar.

President & chief operating officer Tom Riordan and Terex Cranes president Richard Nichols to leave the company.

Despite a 38% fall in thrid quarter revenues, Terex Cranes stayed in profit and maintained a US$ 1 billion+ order backlog

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.

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.

Weak fourth quarter results drove shares in the heavy equipment sector to an all-time low in early February.

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.

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.

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.

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.