China's competition officials are still weighing Dole Food Co's deal to sell its global packaged food and Asian fresh businesses to Japan's Itochu Corp, forcing the two firms to delay completion of the sale. Dole had hoped to sign-off ...
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The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labour of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign (of which Anti-Slavery ...
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China is delivering on its promise to consolidate its mining industry with the formation of a new rare earth mega miner. According to a report by Global Times, the “mega-corporation”, named China North Rare Earths (Group) ...
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Latest ownCloud 2012 Business and Enterprise editions also introduce advanced synching features and updated Android client LEXINGTON, MA, June 30, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- ownCloud, the commercial entity behind the popular open source ...
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Molycorp's mould-breaking deal with Neo Material Technologies sent its shares rocketing in New York on Friday. By lunchtime the stock was trading at $30.09, up 15.8%, on volumes already close to triple the daily average. The counter is ...
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Strong revenue growth and a production ramp-up failed to give Molycorp a boost on Friday with the stock falling almost 2% by the close. The Colorado company, in the process of restarting full-scale mining and processing at Mountain Pass ...
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China is looking to allocate a value-added tax (VAT) permit to all rare earth companies in a desperate effort to curb resource plundering, dangerous artisanal mining and widespread pollution, as well as collecting revenue. By forcing rare ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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Chinese authorities have added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance on the top of the 10,546 tonnes it had already allocated to 11 state-sanctioned miners this year. It is something of a meaningless exercise because during the ...
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The volume of rare earth minerals legally exported from China for the first half of 2012 plunged by 42.7% year-on-year to hit 4,908 tonnes according to statistics from China's customs authorities. According to the US edition of the China ...
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With so many moving variables in the rare earth space, how can investors evaluate investment opportunities? Siddharth Rajeev of Fundamental Research Corp. finds his top prospects by zeroing in on a specific material and tracking its growth ...
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The Critical Metals Report: John, a recent Brookings Institution report suggested that greater collaboration between U.S. and Chinese companies would alleviate tensions over tightening rare earth markets. Is the proposed merger between the ...
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By Adam Currie — Exclusive to Rare Earth Investing News Investor focus shifted east this week as market speculators made it known that they believe China will boost rare earth output to take advantage of potential near-term price ...
In lunchtime trade on Friday Molycorp was changing hands for $19.93, down $1.14 or 5.4%, on bad news about global rare earth demand and as investors continue to digest the company's results out last week. On Friday customs data from China ...
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Trade Arabia reported that crude oil output from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries declined 90,000 barrels per day to 31.08 million barrels per day in November. This follows October production of 31.17 million barrels per ...
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