Iridium and ruthenium prices drifted lower this week on lack of industrial interest and excess supply among traders and consumers. The Platts New York Dealer price range for iridium fell to $725-800/oz this week from $775-850/oz last ...
For centuries, trading with raw material has been an integral part of economic life. Stock exchanges started everywhere and eventually developed into the stock exchanges that exist today, dealing with shares, too. The first stock exchange ...
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Production of BlackBerry smartphone devices has been cut in half after the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, effectively put the company up for sale. Heins, who under his contract of employment stands to earn more than $50m if the company is ...
Rhodium prices continued to rise this week on buying by investment banks on behalf of industrial consumers and improved market sentiment. The Platts New York Dealer rhodium price range on Friday rose to $975-1,015/oz from $950-995/oz last ...
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As the BlackBerry brand slowly dies, considerations are being made about what do do with its assets, including more than 5,000 US patents built up over a decade of innovation in the mobile marketplace, and more than 3,700 wireless ...
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For the last decade, it has been of utmost interest for buyers and sellers in the global textile industry to know where the goods are coming from — that is, where they are produced. The reasons for that are well-known; sustainability ...
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China's twice-revised proposal to ban some imports of lower calorific value thermal coal, predominantly from Indonesia, and some US higher-sulfur thermal coal, was close to being suspended as a pretext to being quietly dropped, according to ...
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Global pharma companies Sanofi, Novartis and GSK are competing to acquire the domestic formulations business of debt-burdening Elder Pharmaceuticals. People familiar with the matter were quoted by media sources as saying that Sanofi and ...
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The Australian dollar continued to fall today, sparking the biggest one-day sell-off in government bonds since the turmoil in global markets that followed the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in late 2008. Bond traders said ...
China credit crunch fears sent the stockmarket tumbling almost 1.5 per cent lower, with investors fleeing materials as China called on its banks to control credit expansion risks and declared liquidity in its financial system was at "a ...
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Scotland could soon have every single one of its streetlights replaced with LEDs, the country’s environment minister Richard Lochead has said. Lochhead has confirmed the government’s nationwide LED streetlighting programme is ...
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Total capital spending in 2012 for the top 100 US producers, including acquisitions, rose 18% year over year to the highest level on record at $316.6 billion, driven by development capital spending of a combined $208 billion, according to a ...
Scotland could soon have every single one of its streetlights replaced with LEDs, the country' s environment minister Richard Lochead has said. Lochhead has confirmed the government’s nationwide LED streetlighting programme is being ...
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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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Venda, the ecommerce platform co-founded by Dan Wagner, is to float on the London Stock Exchange in an initial public offering – marking a return to the City for one of the original dot-com entrepreneurs. According to reports, ...
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