Drummond Ltd., one of the largest coal producers in Colombia, partially restarted operations Saturday night after the government stepped in to resolve a strike that has stifled the country's coal exports. Edgar Munoz, a spokesman for the ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
It’s reported that Chile’s CAP announced that its net earnings and EBITDA in the first quarter of this year totaled US$45.1 million and US$137.2 million, slumping by 46.4% and 31.5% year on year respectively. CAP stated that the ...
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Chile's CAP SA recorded net earnings of $45.1 million in Q1 and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $137.2 million, down 46.4 percent and 31.5 percent, respectively from Q1 2012. The company said the ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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Labor strikes planned for November in Portugal,Spain and Greece may force the delay or cancellation of SAP's Sapphire Now and Tech Ed conferences in Madrid. "As you may have seen in the press,the labor unions in Spain,Portugal,and Greece ...
Tags: Labor strikes, SAP, Sap User Conferences, Madrid, Jim Dever
US cereal maker Post Holdings has recorded an increase in third-quarter profits and reaffirmed its outlook for the year. In the three months to the end of June, earnings reached US$15.8m, compared to $1.6m in the prior-year quarter, when ...
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IDG News Service-SAP now says it will proceed with two major user conferences set for Madrid next month,after saying earlier this week that it was weighing its options following concerns over labor strikes planned for the same time as the ...
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Egypt will no longer subsidize energy for new cement factories, including 14 factories for which licenses have already been issued, according to the industry and trade minister. Minister Hatem Saleh told a press conference Sunday that the ...
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Columnist Amine Bouchentouf is a partner at Parador Capital LLC, an institutional advisory firm focused on commodities and emerging markets. He is the author of the bestselling Commodities For Dummies, published by Wiley. Amine is also the ...
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