British mineral exploration and development company Afferro Mining Inc. has announced that it has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with POSCO Africa (Pty) Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of South Korean steel producer ...
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Big data is important to the BBC in helping to understand audience behaviour and sentiment, BBC CTO John Linwood recently told Computing. "There's a piece of work going on now in understanding the relationship of a member of the audience ...
The dollar rallied strongly today after the Reserve Bank of Australia signalled it might be done cutting interest rates. At 4.30pm AEDT, the Aussie was trading at $US1.0310, up from $US1.0238 late yesterday. It traded as high as $US1.0323 ...
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The sharemarket recovered as investors piled into high-yield stocks after Thursday's steep decline, which followed the release of US Federal Reserve minutes showing growing concern among Fed members about potential side-effects of its ...
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The sharemarket partially reversed its big sell-off with a solid finish after the Reserve Bank's positive comments about the economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 38 points, or 0.76 per cent, at 5018.1 points today, while the ...
Australian miner Rio Tinto has sent a notification to its mining operations contractor South Africa-based Eqstra Holdings, confirming that it has declared force majeure on coal exports from its Benga mine in Tete province and that all the ...
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The sharemarket recorded its biggest one-day fall for nine months after minutes from the US Federal Reserve's recent policy-setting meeting revealed unease about the bank's stimulus efforts. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 2.3 per ...
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The dollar was sharply lower today amid rising concerns that the US central bank might soon take steps to start withdrawing the stimulus measures that have supported the world's biggest economy since the global financial crisis. Minutes ...
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Long distance hydrotransportation of aggressive or abrasive products is an exceptionally challenging task even for positive displacement pumps. Feluwa s Multisafe double hose-diaphragms pumps are provided with two hose-diaphragms, which are ...
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has found that 25% of part-time workers want more hours, against an agency finding that promotes part-time work. According to an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report, over a quarter of part-time ...
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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Photo courtesy of the ABC. The Qantas Group has announced statutory profit after tax of $111 million and underlying profit before tax of $223 million for the six months ended 31 December 2012. This includes $125 ...
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Shares were on track for their biggest fall in three months after minutes from the Federal Reserve's most recent policy-setting meeting showed rising unease about the US central bank's recent stimulus efforts. Domestic earnings reports had ...
German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that it will deliver the world's largest submerged arc furnace with six electrodes for POSCO SNNC, South Korea-based steel producer POSCO's ferronickel subsidiary, for the production of ferronickel ...
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Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced its financial results for the full year 2012. In 2012, New World Resources registered a net loss of €1 million, compared to a net profit of €130 million in ...
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Banks, property trusts, consumer staples and energy companies pushed the sharemarket to its highest close since September 2008, as investors digested earnings reports while awaiting the overnight release of minutes from the US Federal ...
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