HOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N), the world’s largest publicly traded oil producer, boosted its quarterly dividend on Wednesday by about 7 percent to 82 cents, the 36th year in a row it has increased the payout.The dividend is payable on June 11 to shareholders of record as of May 14. Exxon is slated to release its quarterly results on Friday.Reporting by Ernest Scheyder; Editing...Read More

Stephen O'Hara, chief executive of OptiBiotix Health plc (LON:OPTI) tells Proactive's Andrew Scott they've entered entered into a non-exclusive agreement for Cambridge Commodities Ltd (CCL) to distribute their SlimBiome weight management technology in the UK.The SlimBiome product will be purchased from OptiBiotix and distributed as a specialised branded functional ingredient by CCL - a privately-o...Read More

RAPAPORT... Mountain Province's sales increased at its April rough-diamondtender as a higher carat volume outweighed a weaker average price. The miner sold 451,000 carats of rough from its Gahcho Ku?(C)mine for $26.4 million at an average of $59 per carat, it reported in astatement last week. While total sales rose from $25.1 million in March, theaverage price was the lowest of the year. The Febr...Read More

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LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that London and Brussels remained at an early stage of discussions about how financial services will operate across the English Channel after Brexit.Hammond told lawmakers that Britain and the rest of the European Union had only recently struck a deal to keep their overall trade relationship unchanged for 21 months after...Read More

John W Barr, chairman of Mosman Oil And Gas Ltd (LON:MSMN), discusses with Proactive Investors confirmed reserves at their Welch permian basin and Arkoma Stack Pay projects.Arkoma's been confirmed to have gross proved and probable (2P) reserves of 336,000 barrels oil equivalent, along with 2.4mln barrels of contingent resources.Net to Mosman, the 2P reserves amount to 64,000 boe. The company value...Read More

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The mining industry is reversing a long period of declining productivity where the focus is on getting more out of existing assets, with fewer inputs. With fresh memories of low commodity prices and escalating unit production costs, miners are targeting higher margins and greater profitability across the whole business cycle. The objective is to create long-term cost advantage over the marginal pr...Read More

(Reuters) - Boeing Co’s (BA.N) profit surged past Wall Street estimates in the first quarter and booming demand for commercial jets pushed the world’s biggest planemaker to raise forecasts for cash flow and earnings in what promises to be another record year.Speaking after the results, Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg also played down concerns expressed by fellow manufacturer...Read More

David Archer, chief executive at Savannah Resources Plc (LON:SAV), discusses with Proactive's Andrew Scott more higher grade lithium results from their ongoing drill programme at the Mina do Barroso project in Portugal.Results from 12 holes confirmed further lithium containing mineralisation, including higher grade over what it describes as significant widths.Highlight lithium grades ranged betwee...Read More

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Sanction panic in the aluminium market has calmed following the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets and Control's (OFAC) slight loosening of sanctions involving Rusal material. The OFAC said on April 23 companies now have until October 23, instead of June 5, to wind-down contracts with Rusal. The London Metal Exchange has followed the same guidelines, including the updated sta...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said Wednesday it has declined an invitation to testify at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing Thursday on filtering practices by social media companies, a company spokesman said.The company said that even though it will not appear, it looks “forward to a continuing dialogue with members of the committee about Facebook’s strong commitment to bein...Read More

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(Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes swung between gains and losses on Wednesday, as Boeing’s jump after upbeat results and outlook was negated by declines in technology stocks and rising U.S. bond yields.Shares of the world’s biggest planemaker rose 2.8 percent after its profit jumped by more than half in the first quarter and the company raised its full-year forecasts for cash flow and ear...Read More

Metal Bulletin will follow guidance provided by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the London Metal Exchange on the treatment of Rusal production when assessing its aluminium premiums.Transactions, bids and offers in the US, Japanese and European markets for Rusal's aluminium ingots and products produced after April 6 will be discarded and not taken into consideration when assessin...Read More

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Muslim charities are leading fundraising efforts to help victims of Monday’s van attack in Toronto and their families cope with medical and funeral costs, teaming up with Toronto’s city government.Suspect Alek Minassian, 25, was charged with 10 counts of murder and 13 counts of attempted murder on Tuesday after he plowed a rental van into pedestrians on a c...Read More

Base metals on the London Metal Exchange were mixed at the close of trading on Wednesday April 25, with zinc falling 2.5% after a 30,075-tonne delivery into Antwerp rattled price sentiment.The metal recorded its widest intraday price move in a week, reaching a low of $3,129.50 per tonne.   Positive backdrops continue to support a potential uptrend for zinc however, with Metal Bulletin's...Read More

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A motion by Canada’s unelected Senate calling for an end to Chinese actions in the disputed South China Sea is irresponsible and “stirs up troubles”, a Chinese embassy spokesman said on Wednesday.The Senate, whose motions are non-binding, passed one on Tuesday condemning China’s “hostile behavior” in the South China Sea, complicating efforts b...Read More

The manganese supply squeeze continued to push manganese flakes higher this week, with prices climbing more than 8%.Metal Bulletin assessed the manganese flake in-warehouse price at $2,495-2,640 per tonne on Wednesday April 25, up 8.7% from the previous assessment and trading at levels last seen in December 2016. The supply squeeze in Rotterdam and a lack of offers from China have pushed manganese...Read More