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Gold Prices Declines From Record in Asia as Rally Encourages Selling
Gold prices dropped for the first time in three days in Asia as some investors sold the metal to lock in gains after its rally to a record and as the dollar advanced.
Bullion’s 14-day relative strength index has held at more than 70 since Nov. 13, a chart signal that gold prices may be set [...]
Strait Asia Resources Plans To Increase Coal Mine Production to 20 million tones by 2012
In Reuters news online reported, Singapore listed Straits Asia Resources aims to more than double its annual coal production to 20 million tonnes by 2012 and may acquire two Indonesian coal mines to achieve that target.
Two Biggest Mining Companies After Merge, An Ambition Becomes The Biggest Mine Company In World
Marius Kloppers is determined to win his $127bn battle to merge BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, but must beat regulatory hurdles – and Rio’s opposition. Ruth Sunderland met a late starter who could become one of the globe’s most powerful men.
Marius Kloppers, chief executive of mining giant BHP Billiton, could be the patron saint of [...]
Canada Mining Exploration Company Shift Away From Metal Mine Exploration to Coal Mine Exploration
Canada’s biggest diversified mining company has made a major shift away from metals to coal.
Teck Cominco Ltd.’s $14-billion (U.S.) offer for Fording Canadian Coal Trust – the largest coal sector deal in history – amounts to a major bet by Teck on continued strength for the commodity, which is used to make steel and is [...]
Bulge bracket firms dominate in Asia
While bulge bracket firms did not dominate the Financial Times/StarMine Awards for Europe in 2006, they certainly did in Asia.
Independent research houses have made significant in-roads in the US and Europe but, judging from the results, when it comes to producing accurate company analysis the emerging markets of Asia require an altogether higher level of [...]
Goldman, Deutsche Bank Say Double Down on Commodities (Update1)
Anyone who followed the advice of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. last year and invested $10 million in the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index would have lost 15 percent, or $1.5 million.
Like so many of Wall Street’s best and brightest, Goldman, the biggest securities firm by market value, says it wasn’t wrong, just early, and to expect [...]
Indonesia’s Riches Draw China, India
When it comes to energy and industrial commodities, China and India are Asia’s fiercest competitors. For the last couple of years, both Chinese and Indian companies have done deals across the globe — from Latin America to Africa — to win oil exploration rights or secure long-term raw material contracts.
Now they have set their sights [...]
