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...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...Q3, General Electric Q3, General Motors Q3, Halliburton Q3, Hermès Q3, Hydro Q3, Kimberly-Clark Q3, Michelin Q3, Microsoft Q1, Novartis Q3, Puma Q3, Randstad Q3, Shimano Q3, Snap Q3, Spotify Q3, 3M Q3,...
...Around 90 miles away, the Shenzhen Jewelry Museum, which opened in 2019, is in the buzzing Shuibei jewellery district, where more than 2,000 jewellery companies are located....
...And in general it’s wise to isolate steel disputes from the rest of trade policy since they tend to be interminable and intractable....
...“But all my general clothing rules went out of the window,” she says of wearing her hoodie from Ninety Percent “on repeat”....
...MFG won 6 per cent of the ballot in regional elections in September — drawing a large proportion of its support from former FPÖ voters. A new populist wave?...
...Rio Tinto’s biggest shareholder has flexed its muscles by voting against a resolution to repurchase shares at the miner’s annual general meeting in London on Wednesday....
...HFE add: “Our composite index puts an 11% weight on mfg, matching the share in GDP....
...It adds that Tesla uses relatively little cobalt compared to other electric car and battery manufacturers, because it mainly uses a nickel cobalt aluminum oxide chemistry, rather than the nickel manganese...
...“For example, we expect double digit increases on steel and aluminum. A lot of that driven or all of it’s driven by the impact of anticipated tariffs.”...
...Michael Bless, chief executive of Century Aluminum who was at the White House for Thursday’s announcement, said the tariffs would guarantee it enough business that the company would go ahead with a $100m...
...As much as 20 per cent of Europe’s primary aluminium production is at risk of being curtailed, analysts at Harbor Aluminum said....
...General Motors’ stock suffered an 8.5 per cent loss this week — its worst weekly decline in more than two years — while European carmakers fell 4 per cent....
...Separately, Caroline Krass will join insurer AIG as deputy general counsel....
...General McMaster, in particular, also had a very good working relationship with Mr Cohn, who has not yet left his post....
...“Public rebuilding after the hurricane will be in the same general range of its indebtedness....
...The move will vault world number three Aluminum Corp of China, or Chinalco, above Russia’s Rusal and number two Alcoa of the US to become the world’s largest aluminium producer by capacity....
...Shares in the company have fallen 14 per cent this year. In contrast, shares in China’s largest producer Aluminum Corp of China, or Chalco, rose 10 per cent on the tax cut news on Thursday....
...Heribert Hauck, general manager for energy at Trimet Aluminum, one of Germany’s biggest electricity consumers, said: “For us, and for the whole economy, the Energiewende is an enormous challenge, a gigantic...
...The Rio deal coup launched Mr Xiao into his position as vice-secretary-general of the state council, or cabinet....
...On the flip-side, if a shortage of oil appeared in the market, there was a time when all it took to balance the market was a release of stored supply by trading companies, oil companies and/or national producers...
...Multibillion-dollar fines have been awarded against tobacco companies before, but have in general been drastically reduced after appeals....
...Counterparty exposure, meanwhile, is dismissed as insignificant because of the general use of central clearing within the industry....
...As an incentive to get metal under their control, they actually paid the industrial producers of aluminum extra cash to store the metal in their warehouses, fees reportedly as much as $230 a metric ton....
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