What do the gold market and the weather have in common? You can forecast both, but predict neither, according to Brien Lundin, chief executive of Jefferson Financial and publisher of Gold Newsletter. Lundin, who also organizes the New ...
Tags: Finance, Gold, Rare Earth, Metallurgy
The mining sector's bellwether companies were all beaten down on Monday after China's premier Wen Jiabao delivered a downbeat outlook for the world's second largest economy adding that there were "new problems" to deal with. China will ...
Tags: China, Coal, Copper, Finance, Iron Ore, Lead, Nickel, Potash, Rare Earth, Zinc
A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says the financial performance of global mining companies and their stock prices headed in opposite directions last year. The Toronto-based consulting firm says the top 40 global mining firms ...
Tags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Coal, Copper, Diamond, Finance, Gold, Iron Ore
Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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IDG News Service - Apple's iOS continued to deliver more revenue per advertising impression to content publishers than any other mobile operating system in the quarter that ended in June, according to an Opera Software report. IOS edged ...
Tags: Apple's iOS, mobile operating system, Opera Software, Android devices
MSE-Forks has announced the opening of a new fully owned subsidiary in the United States.MSE recently acquired the assets of Reachable Solutions,LLC which was originated by Mike Yacks in 2008.Mike and his wife,Jodi,have now joined the MSE ...
Tags: MSE, Reachable Solutions, acquisition
Labor problems and low prices have platinum mines closing up shop in South Africa, and the potential for acquisitions is ripening. Senior Mining Analyst and Managing Director at Stifel Nicolaus in Toronto, George Topping believes that ...
Tags: Finance, Rare Earth, Metallurgy
The rise of mining costs will have a more dramatic impact on 2013 industry results than in the last couple of years, global ranking agency Fitch Ratings revealed Thursday. According to the firm’s experts, a gloomy macroeconomic ...
Tags: Africa, Coal, Finance, Gold, Iron Ore, Platinum, Potash, Rare Earth, Silver
CSO - It happened more than three and a half years ago. So it presumably would be old news that Chinese hackers broke into soft-drink behemoth Coca-Cola's computer systems and stole confidential files relating to its effort to acquire the ...
Tags: Chinese hackers, Coca Cola, computer system, IT security
Computerworld - Microsoft will probably tie Office apps for the iPhone and iPad to its Office 365 "rental" subscription plans to prevent the mobile apps from cannibalizing sales and to skirt the "Apple tax," analysts said today. "I do see ...
Tags: Microsoft, Office apps, mobile apps, iOS, Android apps
Russia's state-owned Rosneft has signed two loan agreements with a group of international banks for a total of $16.8 billion to finance acquisition of BP's 50% stake in Anglo-Russian TNK-BP, the company said Monday. "Pursuant to these ...
It is reported that Cairn India is facing some reservoir pressure problems in the Bhagyam field in Rajasthan. Despite getting all the approvals from the government for almost 11 months now, the company is unable to ramp up the entire ...
Tags: reservoir pressure problems, production guidance, production
Chinese infant formula group Synutra International has appointed Ning Cai as its CFO. Cai, who has 13 years of experience in corporate finance and investment banking, takes over from interim CFO Weiguo Zhang who will remain as group ...
Tags: Synutra International, CFO Role, Scotia Capital, Ning Cai
The owners of Slovenian food retailer Mercator, including shareholder Pivovarna Lasko, have re-started an attempt to sell their joint 53.2% stake in the company. Investors in Mercator have been looking to offload shares in the retailer ...
Tags: Agriculture Food, Stake Sale, Mercator
Wilo is pleased to announce that Mr. Cliff Alford has been appointed as Key Offshore Accounts Manager for Wilo USA. Cliff began his new duties on December 1, 2012. “Wilo SE has been a significant player in the Global offshore pump ...
Tags: National Offshore, Processing Machinery, Accounts Manager