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...The price of copper, the flagship LME contract, has fallen 12 per cent so far this year and is down nearly 30 per cent from 2011’s record high; aluminium, nickel and zinc are languishing close to their lowest...
...He wrote in the IFC’s response: We have carefully reviewed the CAO’s compliance audit report regarding IFC’s investment in Corporación Dinant S.A. de C.V....
...The Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) found that the International Finance Corporation either turned a blind eye to the allegations surrounding Corporación Dinant when it disbursed the first...
...Bernie Ecclestone, F1’s commercial boss, has demanded a $42m sanctioning fee for holding the event, according to Jalife....
...mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLENewsIntl Anglo nears deal to end Codelco dispute Anglo American is close to a deal with Codelco that would see the Chilean copper miner buy a 24.5 per cent share of the London-listed...
...0/72cb0f7c-ec7f-11e1-8e4a-00144feab49a.html Anglo nears deal to end Codelco dispute Anglo American is close to a deal with Codelco that would see the Chilean copper miner buy a 24.5 per cent share of the...
...Geithner and fellow regulators “could now use their new authority to shift oversight of the money market fund industry away from the S.E.C., a move that has few precedents.”...
...A joint venture between Codelco and Mitsui & Co. will buy 29.5 per cent of Sur in a cash deal valued at about $2.8bn. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-22/anglo-said-to-be-readying-announcement-of-chile-copper-agreement.html...
...strike at its South African mine, just over a week after its chief executive was hospitalised due to serious illness, the FT reports. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/99690282-edb6-11e1-a9d7-00144feab49a.html...
...The health of the natural resources sector, from oil to mining, is critical for London’s stock market, where it accounts for nearly a third of the blue-chip FTSE 100’s market capitalisation....
...suffered a strike last week....
...In Frankfurt, HeidelbergCement fell 3.1 per cent to €34.60, its lowest finish for nearly a year, while potash and salt miner K+S dropped 1.7 per cent to €41.29 after its second-quarter results failed to...
...In Madrid, Red Eléctrica Corporación declined 1.2 per cent to €33.75. The Chinese data and Goldman downgrade also reverberated in southern Europe....
...It figures prominently in the most popular commodities indices, such as the S&P GSCI and the DJ-AIG, used by pension funds and by other institutional investors to gain exposure to the commodities asset class...
...By the close of trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.2 per cent at 10,796.26, while the S&P 500 index was 1 per cent higher at 1,258.17....
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