House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's"Plan B"to limit income-tax increases to the wealthiest sliver of the population appeared likely to pass the House on Thursday evening after it narrowly cleared a procedural hurdle in the ...
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Money managers boosted net length in NYMEX crude for the reporting week ending December 18, as front-month crude futures received a slight boost. The increase in net length came as money managers increased longs by 3,457 lots, while ...
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SteelGuru, the leading website for steel, metal and mining industry with 150,000 page views per day and 75,000 plus registered users for its E mail based news letter Steel Trade Today, has added yet another value added service for its ...
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As per the latest information from Black sea CIS steel export prices are in mixed dynamics. Billet price is rather stable with the market around USD 515 per tonne FOB Black Sea. Despite minor fluctuations, raised by particular deals and ...
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Premier Colin Barnett has told Rio Tinto and Alcoa that they're dreaming about developing a massive bauxite deposit in the remote Kimberley and flagged the possible return of the resource to taxpayers. The global giants want a two to ...
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A manufacturer of retail and exhibition display equipment is looking to expand in Greater Manchester after winning new accounts at home and abroad. United Aluminium has submitted a planning application to expand its purpose built premises ...
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French media reported that a case of fire happened in the night from Sunday to Monday in Aperam's plant at Gueugnon in central France The fire, which broke out around 22:15 ravaged 4.000 m2 of a building of 12,000 m2 housing tanks ...
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Xstrata Copper's Lomas Bayas operation, located in northern Chile, has completed construction and commenced commissioning on scheduleof its USD 300 million Lomas II project to extend the mine life by 16 years, until at least 2028, at ...
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The United Steelworkers Local 7054 and Kentucky Electric Steel have reached agreement on a new labor contract. The new agreement was overwhelmingly ratified in a Wednesday(12 December 2012)vote.Compensation increases took place 16 ...
DNA reported that in complete contravention of guidelines requiring a mandatory clearance from the Chief Vigilance Commission for appointments or extensions of board-level executives in public sector companies, the ministry of mines has ...
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Aperam announced its financial calendar for 2013. Earnings calendar 4 February 2013-earnings for 4th quarter 2012 and 12 months 2012 7 May 2013-earnings for 1st quarter 2013 31 July 2013-earnings for 2nd quarter 2013 and 6 ...
Nippon Steel&Sumikin Stainless the largest stainless producer in Japan announced to raise the prices for austenitic rod by JPY 10,000 per tonne for December to February contracts,in order to reflect higher nickel prices. The firm ...
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The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) has entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) in a bid to help enhance payment operations for deposit insurance claims. As part of the agreement, ...
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After a month long rally of 17%culminating in the highest level in the last 5 months the buck finally stopped on the eve of New Year in China.Propped on sound macro economic parameters steel production picked up.Steel consumption has shown ...
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PTI reported that state public sector unit Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation will set up a global centre on mining safety and automation in Gujarat. The centre which is likely to be established on a public private partnership ...