Any copper surplus next year is unlikely to emerge until the second half, with the price well supported in the first half, JP Morgan said Thursday. It raised its forecast for the average price in the first quarter by 2% to $7,210/mt, and ...
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Food and beverage company WhiteWave Foods is set to acquire Earthbound Farm from its shareholders and owners in an all-cash deal of $600m. Earthbound Farm is an organic produce brand in North America. It produces and markets organic fresh ...
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Oil giant BP is currently having a “big internal debate” about how it can lock down personal computers without losing out on flexibility for employees, as a direct result of the increasing threat of cyber attacks. Outgoing CIO ...
Air freight markets stabilised in September, after an extended period of slow increase. Global freight tonne kilometres were up 0.5% in September year-on-year, a slowdown on the 3.4% growth in August, and there was no increase in volumes ...
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Greenland Hong Kong issued USD 700 million bonds to expire in 2016, with annual interest rate of 4.75%, and the interests will be paid every half a year. Net raised capital of CNY 695 million will be used for refinancing for existing ...
TZ Minerals International (TZMI) Congress 2013, a conference for the titanium and zircon industries, which will be held November 11-14 in Hong Kong, has announced its keynote speaker will be Ben Simpfendorfer. Simpfendorfer is the ...
Darling International, a US-based provider of rendering and bakery residuals recycling solutions, is set to acquire Vion Ingredients, a division of Vion Food, for approximately EUR1.6bn. Vion Ingredients is engaged in the development and ...
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At the Global Economic Symposium (GES) in Kiel, the panelists discussing the future of central banking warned of the next bubble and the consequent next crisis. "The lax monetary policy of the central banks over the last few years was ...
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Embotelladora Andina, a Chile-based beverage firm and a Coca-Cola bottler, has outlined plans to offload $600m in international bonds due 2023. The amount raised by selling the bonds will be used to finance the acquisition of Brazil-based ...
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Refining capacity expansions in China have been largely on track this year although the country's relatively weaker growth in oil demand could delay some projects and result in lower utilization rates, analysts said this week. Up to 1.3 ...
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Guardian Life Insurance, a mutual life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, has appointed Caitlin Pincus as senior vice president of Strategy & Guardian Labs and Dean Del Vecchio as senior vice president and chief information ...
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Cubist Pharmaceuticals has entered into two separate agreements to acquire Optimer Pharmaceuticals and Trius Therapeutics, as part of the company's Building Blocks of Growth strategy to strengthen its presence in acute care and hospital ...
According to Xiaojuan Shi, technology industry analyst from Morgan Stanley Securities, Osram announced that it will re-focus on LED solid-state lighting in order to achieve long-term goals of smart lighting. OSRAM's outsourcing order is ...
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The dollar's coming of age as a global reserve currency has resulted in a $200 billion buying spree by central banks and sovereign wealth funds since the global financial crisis, adding an estimated US6c-US8c to the dollar's value, ...
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The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers. The alliance was set up in ...
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