The Australian sharemarket rose to a 20-month high today as investors continued to buy banks, consumer staples, property trusts, healthcare and energy companies, while remaining hesitant on iron ore producers after spot iron ore prices ...
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G2X Energy will this week finalize an option to lease land needed to build a $1.3 billion natural gas-to-gasoline facility at The Port of Lake Charles in Southwest Louisiana, Louisiana Economic Development said Tuesday. The lease is ...
Writing in the Financial Times, a partner at a London-based financial advisory business suggests Iraq as a true frontier market investment. Citing precedents such as Japan in the early 1960s and Russia in 1995, Richard Greer, a partner at ...
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For all the apocalyptic prognostications, 2012 turned out to be a relatively uneventful year from an information security standpoint. A cyber Pearl Harbor did not happen. Stuxnet and its kin did not take out any power grids or shut down ...
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A Chinese steel company is set to open a pipe mill this spring,bringing hundreds of jobs to an area already thriving from the oil and gas industries and injecting a multi-billion dollar boon to surrounding cities and towns over the next ...
WITH just one trading day left this year, the sharemarket climbed to a 19-month high yesterday as stronger iron ore, copper and oil prices boosted miners, and investors bought shares in anticipation that US politicians can reach a deal to ...
More than a third (36%) of Which? members who get paid for the electricity they generate from solar panels told us they have had a problem getting their feed-in tariff (FIT) paid, an exclusive Which? survey has revealed. Energy companies ...
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The Canadian government followed through on last month's budget promise to streamline environmental reviews of resource projects with a plan for "responsible resource development." Announced Tuesday by Natural Resources Minister Joe ...
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Hackers using a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named Mirage have been engaged in a systematic cyber espionage campaign against a Canadian energy company, a large oil firm in the Philippines and several other entities since at least this April, ...
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Utility companies in Western Europe will spend $10.5bn on IT this year, of which over 62% will be invested in IT services. IDC Energy Insights expects IT spending by utility companies in the region to exceed $13bn in 2016, after average ...
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Energy supplier EDF is having problems with a new complaints management system amid a huge rise in the volume of customer grievances. A report on Radio 4’s You & Yours programme described a massive increase in the number of customer ...
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Softbank will soon offer a new satellite phone for use in earthquakes and other natural disasters. The Japanese carrier said Monday it has teamed with Thuraya, a Dubai-based provider of satellite operator services and phones, to offer ...
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A hacker group calling itself the Arab Youth Group has claimed responsibility for what appears to be a serious hacking attack on Saudi Aramco, one of the world's largest energy companies. The attack comes at the same time security firms ...
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INTERFAX-CHINA reported that Guanghui Energy Co Ltd one of the largest non state energy companies in China, plans to build 565 vehicular liquefied natural gas refueling stations across China through 2017
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Microsoft has recognised NeoStream as a company that demonstrates best-in-class capability and market leadership through proven technology success and customer commitment. NeoStream Technologies Inc., Calgary's largest energy services ...
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