Monday Midday Business Report is your weekly market news briefing.

Check out this week's news and key trends:

• Aluminum usage is down
• Sulfur prices are up
• Synthetic rubber keeps going up too, but not as fast as before
• NAND flash prices are down
• PC shipments are up
• DRAM prices are down
• Carriers have released new LTL trucking rates; it’s time to negotiate
• Relief is in sight on hotel room rates

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Executive Webcast: February 14, '08, 2 pm US-EST, featuring Aberdeen Group's Andrew Bartolini This WEBCAST will investigate the requirements, opportunities, and solutions available for truly competitive supply base management. We'll look at value-added approaches to: identifying, profiling, targeting, and recruiting the right suppliers; testing, certifying, and training them; communicating, managing change, and collaborating with suppliers; enabling suppliers to interact with their technology and to meet customers' expectations, and managing supplier compliance to terms, measuring and improving their performance, consistently, over time. Click here to register