MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow and Washington had agreed that he would meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after President Vladimir Putin holds a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump on July 16.Lavrov said his meeting with Pompeo would have to take place after the summit in Helsinki and not before because of his U.S. counterpart&rsqu...Read More
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has given up on a plan to visit Iran this summer, Kyodo News said on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has taken an increasingly tough line against Tehran.The visit to Iran would have been the first by a Japanese leader in 40 years, forming part of Abe's scheduled tour through the Middle East from July 11, Kyodo said.But Japan has told I...Read More
* LME/ShFE arb: bit.ly/2wZSAE* GRAPHIC-2018 asset returns: tmsnrt.rs/2jvdmXl (Updates prices)By Zandi ShabalalaLONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - Copper fell to a fresh nine-month low on Wednesday ahead of the implementation of trade tariffs on goods from China and the United States which could dampen demand for the industrial metal.Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange slipped 0.6 percent to $...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure on international firms not to buy Iranian oil will drive prices higher and end up hurting his own economy, a senior Iranian oil official said on Wednesday.Iran’s OPEC governor, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, said oil should not be used as a weapon or to make political gains, according to the Iran oil ministry news agency SHANA.&ldq...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fireworks, music and the pursuit of hot dogs will mark the 242nd year of independence for the United States on what is expected to be a steamy Wednesday in much of the country.The Independence Day holiday, which brings out crowds from small towns to big cities, is also a time when law enforcement agencies are on the alert for suspicious activity.Officials said they are taking...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - The euro fell on Wednesday as a weaker purchasing managers’ confidence in the bloc overshadowed better-than-expected data on business activity, while concerns about Washington’s end-of-week deadline to impose tariffs on Chinese imports crimped trading.The yuan was the big winner, gaining as much as 0.8 percent as the Chinese currency built on its recovery from an 11-...Read More
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is comfortable with a weakening yuan, intervening only to prevent any rapid and destabilising declines or to restore market confidence, as the economy loses momentum and faces further risks from a heated trade dispute with the United States, policy insiders said.On Tuesday, as stocks sank and the yuan fell through a key psychological level of 6.7 on the dollar, traders sa...Read More
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that the situation on global oil markets was unlikely to be one of the main agenda items at a summit between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Helsinki on July 16.“There are much more pressing matters from the point of view of bilateral relations that will of course be examined in the first instance,” Kremlin sp...Read More
BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - China is putting pressure on the European Union to issue a strong joint statement against President Donald Trump’s trade policies at a summit later this month but is facing resistance, European officials said.In meetings in Brussels, Berlin and Beijing, senior Chinese officials, including Vice Premier Liu He and the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State C...Read More
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A Canadian gold mining company has agreed to help clean up South Dakota's most contaminated industrial site.Read full newsRead More
The U.S. corruption and money-laundering probe into Glencore Plc represents the sum of all fears for the world's largest commodity trader and its billionaire chief executive officer, Ivan Glasenberg.The possibility that the Justice Department would add to the dizzying array of regulatory and legal headaches the Swiss company is facing around the globe - from Russia to Africa and South America - ha...Read More
The U.S. corruption and money-laundering probe into Glencore Plc represents the sum of all fears for the world's largest commodity trader and its billionaire chief executive officer, Ivan Glasenberg.The possibility that the Justice Department would add to the dizzying array of regulatory and legal headaches the Swiss company is facing around the globe - from Russia to Africa and South America - ha...Read More
A Canadian gold mining company has agreed to help clean up South Dakota's most contaminated industrial site.Read full newsRead More
Former Rio Tinto's head of iron ore business in China, Stern Hu, has been released Wednesday after spending nearly nine years in prison in Shanghai, following a 2010 conviction for corruption and industrial espionage.The Australian citizen and three of his Chinese colleagues were arrested in 2009 during contentious iron-ore contract talks between top Aussie miner and the steel industry in China.Hu...Read More
4 July 2018 - ALROSA, the world's largest diamond mining company, has sold special size rough diamonds (weighing over 10.8 carats) at an international auction in Vladivostok, which was held on June 18-29, 2018.The company received a total revenue of $17 million from the sale of 121 gem-quality diamonds with a total weight of 2,000 carats.Companies from Belgium, China, Hong Kong, India, Israel,...Read More
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: 3 July 2018 - The Board of Executive Directors of K+S Aktiengesellschaft (K+S AG) is pleased to announce that as of July 1, 2018, Mr. Sam Farris has succeeded Dr. Ulrich Lamp as President of K+S Potash Canada (KSPC) following Lamp's retirement.Farris, who is born and raised in Saskatchewan, has been working for K+S since August 2011, most recently in the role of Senior Vic...Read More
3 July 2018 - Rio Tinto's Australian Diamonds program has launched its latest campaign in India highlighting a new range of affordable bridal and fashion jewellery from the company's Argyle diamond mine in Australia.Mithali Raj, captain of the Indian women's cricket team is the official ambassador for the new campaign, helping promote the popularity of diamonds in fashion and bridal jewellery, p...Read More