"The greatest evil is not now done ... in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell i...Read More
By Ben Dummett LONDON -- U.S. buyout giant Silver Lake Friday struck at GBP2.2 billion ($2.98 billion) deal to acquire one of Britain's biggest internet property search companies, a bet on the increasing use of the web by consumers and real-estate agents as a more efficient and cheaper way to buy and sell homes in the U.K. and beyond. Founded in 2008, ZPG PLC's brands include Zoopla, a property...Read More
Export prices for Brazilian steel slab material declined this week, with companies struggling to sell volumes to the United States after an annual quota was set in the wake of the northern country's Section 232 trade investigation.Metal Bulletin's weekly price assessment for Brazil export slab narrowed downward to $560-580 per tonne fob on Friday May 11, from $560-600 per tonne fob a week before.S...Read More
BEIJING (Reuters) - Some North Korean traders are offering cheap coal to Chinese buyers who are stockpiling it at ports inside the isolated country, hoping recent diplomatic moves lead to an easing of sanctions barring purchases of North Korean coal, three Chinese traders told Reuters.Official data shows China has not imported any coal from North Korea since October last year, after the United Nat...Read More
Massachusetts courts have had a bad year.A Massachusetts lab technician, Sonja Farak, came to work high every day for 8 years. Well technically, sometimes she arrived sober but was soon high as a kite.She worked in a lab that tested drugs confiscated from arrested suspects. Of course, she wasn’t supposed to personally test the drugs… that was what the lab equipment was for.In 2014...Read More
The company reported a net loss for the March quarter of US$2.3 million, down from a loss of $2.7 million a year ago. The net loss per basic and diluted shares was 1c, unchanged year-on-year.Read More
By David Hodari LONDON--Copper prices edged higher Friday, building on Thursday's gains as inventories continued to fall and the dollar's recent rally stalled. The base metal was up 0.16% at $6,928 a metric ton in late morning trade. Gold, meanwhile, rose 0.25% to $1,324.53 a troy ounce, heading for its first weekly gain in the past month. The U.S. dollar's resurgence was put on pause by Thurs...Read More
Russian diamond mining major Alrosa and the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) entered a new extended cooperation agreement late last month. The agreement was signed in Moscow by Alrosa CEO Sergey Ivanov and AWDC CEO Ari Epstein, the miner reported in a press release. The new deal both extends their existing cooperation and expands the extent of their future cooperation to address new diamond mar...Read More
Indian local secondary steel billet prices have fallen by at least 800 rupees per tonne in the current week even as buyers await further corrections to the prices of semi-finished products.Metal Bulletin's price assessment for domestic secondary billet in India, mainly produced via the induction furnace route, was 34,800-35,000 rupees ($517-520) per tonne ex-mill on Friday May 11. This was down by...Read More
SHANGHAI, May 11 (SMM) – Major copper ore producing countries including Chile, Peru and Zambia have raised their output forecast by 700,000 mt this year following higher production registered in the first quarter.In 2017, the total output of these three countries accounted for 44.3% of global copper ore production. SMM expects global copper ore output growth to reach 3.3% this year...Read More
JOHANNESBURG, May 11 (Reuters) - South Africa trade union Solidarity has submitted wage hike demands in the gold sector of at least 10 percent annually over the next three years, according to a document submitted to the Chamber of Mines seen by Reuters.Solidarity only represents about 2 percent of the workforce in South Africa’s gold mines but its members are skilled artisans and supervisors...Read More
The law originally targetted the KKK. Now it has been used to arrest people protesting against white supremacists.And that is why free speech is so important.Plenty of people would love to see new laws to stop white supremacists from exercising their–albeit offensive–free speech.But as this 1951 law demonstrates, the law as it is intended is not always how it is applied.Faced with hund...Read More
ArcelorMittal predicts that demand for steel will continue to pick up after posting positive financial results for the first quarter of 2018, the company said on Friday May 11."The improvement in global steel market dynamics has continued into 2018, supporting an encouraging financial performance in the first quarter," chairman and chief executive officer Lakshmi Mittal said.The world's biggest st...Read More
SHANGHAI, May 11 (SMM) –Copper: The US dollar fell as the US consumer-price inflation growth for April missed expectations. Crude oil prices extended its gains as closing prices registered a new high since 2014, and this buoyed copper prices. LME copper surged overnight with a higher trading range, and now stands among moving averages. The SHFE 1807 contract cli...Read More
Via ActivistPost.comEarlier this week, The Free Thought Project reported that Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters stopped a concert in Barcelona to warn the crowd about pro-war propaganda that is coming from a group in Syria known as the White Helmets.In the days since Waters has taken several interviews to further explain his views, the most interesting of which was with a group called the Grayzo...Read More
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people” -Karl MarxA group of researchers agrees. They think they have proven that if you have a government you don’t need religion. They concluded that “religiosity” wanes as people get more help from government programs. They th...Read More
Flat and long stainless steel product prices in Europe have gone unchanged over the past week amid low activity because of public holidays across Europe and high stock levels at warehouses, sources told Metal Bulletin on Friday March 11.Metal Bulletin's weekly base price assessment for 2mm, grade-304 cold-rolled (CR) stainless steel sheet was stable week-on-week at ?,?1,050-1,100 ($1,248-1,308) pe...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar consolidated gains on Friday and is set for a fourth consecutive week of gains as markets grow optimistic about the outlook for the U.S. currency in the coming weeks despite notching up some relatively quick recent gains.While some investors have been quick to point to the widening interest rate differentials in favor of the United States as a significant factor in th...Read More
U.S. dollar strength has been prevalent throughout this year. Its effect has resulted in strong headwinds for the precious metals complex. Dollar strength has been the most significant force involved with limiting any real upside movement. On February 16, the dollar index traded to the lowest price point this year when it reached 88.15. From February up until this week, the dollar has gained almos...Read More