Atlantic metallurgical coal buyers and miners Friday were positive on the reported $81/mt hard coking coal benchmark, with new spot US offers looking to match or exceed this reference. Some buyers were bracing for a settlement closer to ...
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The Singapore Exchange is increasingly taking on a bigger share of coking coal futures volume, latest trade data showed Tuesday. The SGX's FOB Australia Premium Coking Coal Futures contract made up 285,000 mt in trade November, up from ...
Tags: SGX, Coking Coal, iron ore, thermal coal
Although the preference for Australian over US coal continues, US high vol B is still holding its own in the market. Some buyers are now looking to the next benchmark with expectations of a fall from the current $89/mt FOB Australia. One ...
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The expected growth in global steel demand through 2050 may require a tripling of current seaborne metallurgical coal exports, which may be tough for miners to deliver, according to forecasts delivered Monday by two consultants. An annual ...
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A novel study determined that monitoring inactive chronic hepatitis B (HBV) carriers is a cost-effective strategy for China. However, results published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, ...
People with type 2 diabetes might be at somewhat higher risk of developing liver cancer, according to a large, long-term study. The research suggests that those with type 2 diabetes have about two to three times greater risk of developing ...
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Oracle has claimed its newly launched ZS3 Series storage offers better throughput, latency, price and performance than NetApp, EMC, IBM and HP systems. Citing "new world record performance", Oracle said the disk storage solution enables ...
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Marine insurance provider Fidelis Group Holdings (FGH), through its subsidiary Continental Underwriters, has launched a new inland marine division. Based at FGH's New York office, the new division will be underwritten through the ...
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Strong buying interest in China over the extended weekend pushed Asian spot metallurgical coal prices substantially higher Monday, as hard coking coals traded $3-4/mt higher than Wednesday last week, market sources reported. On an FOB ...
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Health insurer Health Insurance Innovations (HII) has rolled out HealtheMed STM plan (Short-Term Medical) in collaboration with HCC Life Insurance Company (HCC), which caters medical stop loss, group term and short term medical insurance. ...
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Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that state’s three new Advanced Manufacturing Centers at community colleges across Connecticut will receive $7,325,000 in funding for facility and equipment upgrades that will ...
Dunbia's new £12M Llanybydder factory in Wales will help Sainsbury's plans to boost sales of British food, according to Justin King, ceo of the supermarket chain. Dunbia processes a range of red meats, including lamb "The new ...
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Specialty insurer HCC Insurance Holdings has established a new ‘Construction Property Risks Division’ with an aim to boost its underwriting capability in builder's risk insurance. Francis P Tricamo, Sr has been appointed to ...
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Renesas Electronics is offering customers of its RX microcontrollers a free of-charge design qualification service for commercial software up to the value of €20,000. The programme supports a range of middleware, including operating ...
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Healthcare technology solutions and consulting services provider CitiusTech has launched a new BI-Clinical Cloud, a flexible, SaaS-based and rules-driven platform, for healthcare business intelligence (BI), and integrated clinical, ...
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