(Adds detail on iron ore fines prices)RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA's quarterly net income jumped by 47 percent but still badly missed analyst estimates, depressed by rising costs and foreign exchange related losses.In a securities filing on Tuesday, the world's largest iron ore producer said net income totaled $771 million in the quarter, well below a consen...Read More

Director of Operations William Douglas from 2D Layer tells Proactive Investors at the Graphene for U.S. 2018 Conference in New York that they have produced their atomically thin semi conducting material to industry scale level.Douglas says 2DLayer is looking for their second round of investment of $15 - $20 mln in the near future for further production.  Meet Scancell Holdings Plc, Advanced B...Read More

(Repeats with no changes to text. The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)* Aluminium "semis" exports: * Copper scrap imports: * Nickel ore imports: * Refined zinc imports: By Andy HomeLONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - What will the Chinese New Year of the Dog bring for industrial metal markets? China still dominates the pricing landscape for the base meta...Read More

* Powell sees U.S. economy strengthening since December* Powell downplays risk signaled by a flattening yield curve* Powell sticks to Fed's gradual rate-hike stance* U.S. durable goods fall again, consumer mood hits 17-year high (Updates market action, adds quote)By Richard LeongNEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The margin between U.S. shorter- and longer-dated yields narrowed on Tuesday after Federal...Read More

Undermined by a firmer dollar Alongside...ACCESS RESTRICTEDTo read the rest of this analysis please take a free sample or subscribeFREE SampleReceive a free sample of  market analysis and price forecasts.Free SampleSUBSCRIBEReceive unlimited access to all current and archive content going back to 2008 including downloadable pricing data and forecasts.Plus download the latest issue a...Read More

The Graphene Flagship Head of Innovation Kari Hjelt tells Proactive Investors at the Graphene for U.S. 2018 Conference in New York that they are looking to commercialize the material that "solves all of the problems in the world."Hjelt says the ?,?1 bln European research program is seeking companies and investors to commercialize and create the whole ecosystem on graphene.  Meet Scancell Hold...Read More

BUENOS AIRES, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Argentina's central bank held its benchmark seven-day interbank lending rate at 27.25 percent on Tuesday, the monetary authority said in a statement, citing expectations February inflation would be higher than recent months.The central bank has held rates twice in a row after two cuts following the government's decision to loosen its 2018 inflation target to 15 per...Read More

Zinc prices are holding up well,...ACCESS RESTRICTEDTo read the rest of this analysis please take a free sample or subscribeFREE SampleReceive a free sample of  market analysis and price forecasts.Free SampleSUBSCRIBEReceive unlimited access to all current and archive content going back to 2008 including downloadable pricing data and forecasts.Plus download the latest issue as soon...Read More

Ray Gibbs, CEO of Haydale Graphene Industries PLC (LON: HAYD) tells Proactive Investors at the Graphene for U.S. Conference in New York, that America is trying to catch up with graphene commercialization, while the Asian graphene market pushes for the material.Haydale's Taiwan-based inks arm has agreed a deal to supply Japanese firm Graphene Platform (GPC), and will initially target Japan's electr...Read More

I often talk about long-term investing - the idea of buying something and then "forgetting about it" for a decade or two.Even though it's harder than it sounds, there's no doubt it can produce amazing results.I was recently reminded of that fact when I moved into my new house here in Santa Barbara.No, I'm not talking about the house itself, even though I plan on owning it for the next 20 or 30 yea...Read More

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By Trevor HunnicuttFeb 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is "looking into" whether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) influenced the stock selloff earlier this month, but the investments were not likely "at the heart" of what happened, Chairman Jerome Powell said on Tuesday.The S&P 500 fell 10 percent from Jan. 26 to Feb. 8 in a decline investors linked to fears about risin...Read More

Stephen Hunt from Brooklyn based NanoGraphene tells Proactive Investors the newly created graphene production company is producing the material with distilled water without acid or chemicals to aid the process.Hunt says NanoGraphene will look to publicly list towards the end of the year.  Meet Scancell Holdings Plc, Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems Ltd and TokenCommunities Plc at our event,...Read More

The recent stock market carnage has dominated the top story slot at most financial news outlets this month.Pundits have thoroughly enjoyed speculating over what caused the February market swoon. So far, they've blamed volatility traders, rate hikes, fears of a government shutdown - all the usual suspects. But in truth, the market had simply grinded higher without a correction for too long.We're...Read More

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(Adds amount of the IPO, company description and banks managing the offering)By Carolina Mandl and Aluisio AlvesSAO PAULO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Brazilian healthcare insurer Hapvida Participa???ues e Investimentos SA filed for an initial public offering on the Sao Paulo stock exchange on Monday, according to a securities filing.The offering will have a primary portion, in which the company will issu...Read More

Amy Landis, presidential faculty fellow for access, attainment and diversity and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was recently featured in a segment on CBS4 Denver previewing the fourth annual Girls & Science event March 3 at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.Colorado School of Mines is a sponsor of the event, which invites girls (and boys)...Read More

Base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange are up across the board by an average of 0.4% this morning, Tuesday February 27.Aluminium prices lead the way with a gain of 0.7%, while the rest are up between 0.1% for zinc and 0.4% for tin, with copper prices up by 0.3% at $7,136 per tonne. Volume has been average with 6,677 lots traded as of 07.12 am London time. This follows a day of general str...Read More

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Only the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas pushed for an increase in the rate commercial banks are charged for emergency loans ahead of the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting, minutes from the discussion of the discount rate showed on Tuesday.The Fed left its benchmark lending rate and the discount rate unchanged at its Jan. 30-31 meeting. Policymakers raised inter...Read More

Two Colorado School of Mines undergraduate students can add a new line to their resumes: Poet published in a statewide anthology. Olivia Cordova, a senior in electrical engineering, and Coleman Hoyt, a senior in computer science, were among the 80 up-and-coming Colorado poets chosen for "Colorado's Best Emerging Poets," an anthology published in January by Z Publishing. Both Cordova and Hoyt wer...Read More