While analysts are generally in consensus in forecasting Brent crude to average around $110/b in 2013, the surge in North American production and question marks on the timing of new infrastructure has made for a highly divergent set of ...
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IDG News Service - Wells Fargo's website experience intermittent outages on Tuesday, while the hacker group claiming responsibility threatened to hit U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services Group over the next two days. Wells Fargo ...
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IDG News Service-Concern is building up over the use of litigation over standards-essential patents to block sales of products,with the International Telecommunication Union(ITU)planning to hold a conference that will address what the ...
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CITI has ended rival UBS's 11-year streak at the top of the stockbroking heap, as brokers warn that an imminent uptick in market activity is unlikely after the worst year since 2005. "I would say next year will be similar to this year in ...
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Mutualisation will be the future model of public sector services,Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said. Speaking at Intellect's World-Class Public Services conference,he said digital delivery was important to the open public ...
MCLEAN, VA, July 11, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- ZyLAB, a leading provider of eDiscovery and information management solutions, today announced that Mary Mack, Esq., enterprise technology counsel for the company, will participate on a panel ...
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The United States is honoring its role, to the best of its ability, as the world's locomotive, although despite the positive performance of the real estate market, America seems to be recovering slower than expected. The stumbling block ...
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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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Japan is set to commence imports of rare earth metals for India in order to hedge against worsening relations with chief supplier China. The Asahi Shimbun reports that Japan is expected to announce the start of imports from India during a ...
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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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Police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong announced on Tuesday that they have shut down nine rare earth mines operating illegally in Longchuan county over the past six months. According to a Xinhua news report, police in Heyuan ...
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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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The USA's largest rare earth producer Molycorp (NYSE:MCP) is mounting a credible challenge to Chinese rare earth dominance by dramatically scaling up output and potentially increasing its global market share to 30% from 4% at present. ...
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IT professionals in the UK, EU and the US agree that BI users are a deep source of exasperation. A survey commissioned by BI dashboards supplier LogiXML found an IT pro population united in grief across the Atlantic. According to the ...
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The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google's search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported late Sunday ...
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