TOKYO, June 6 (Reuters) - Japan's real wages were flat in April from the same period a year earlier, with rising prices offsetting gains in nominal pay and possibly hurting households' purchasing power.Real wages, which are adjusted for moves in consumer prices, were flat in April from a year earlier, labour ministry data showed on Tuesday. It followed a revised 0.3 percent annual fall in March.Wa...Read More

By Gabriela Mello and Tatiana BautzerSAO PAULO, June 5 (Reuters) - Brazil's antitrust watchdog Cade has demanded asset sales larger than initially expected by the country's largest for-profit college operators, Kroton Educacional SA and Est??cio Participa???ues SA, before it will approve their merger, three people with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.Cristiane Alkmin, the deal's rapporteur...Read More

By Ben Blanchard and Chris Mfula | BEIJING/LUSAKAZambia has detained 31 Chinese nationals for illegal mining in the African country's copper belt but has failed to provide strong proof of their crimes, a senior Chinese diplomat said as he lodged a complaint.Lin Songtian, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's director-general for African affairs, told a Zambian diplomat in Beijing that China understood an...Read More

Content originally generated at iBankCoin.comA secretive group of 131 elite power brokers met last weekend at the heavily guarded Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia for the highly secretive annual Bilderberg meeting.Established in 1954 by Polish political advisor J??zef Retinger - founder of the European Movement which gave birth to the EU, the informal meeting of over 130 of the wo...Read More

WELLINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - New Zealand seasonally adjusted wholesale sales jumped 2.1 percent in the first quarter, Statistics New Zealand data showed on Tuesday.Actual wholesale sales were 5.3 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago.The data is one of the final components of gross domestic product data to be released on June 15. (Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield and Ana Nicolaci da...Read More

WELLINGTON, June 6 (Reuters) - The seasonally adjusted value of New Zealand residential building work fell 0.8 percent in the first quarter, data from Statistics New Zealand showed on Tuesday.The value of non-residential building work fell 7.2 percent, resulting in a 3.5 percent drop in the total value of all building work. The full data is available at . (Reporting by Charlotte Greenfield and Ana...Read More

The US used to be the world's powerhouse when it came to uranium production. From 1953 until the early 1980s the country dominated global production, by far, but then lower uranium prices resulted in mining shutdowns.Overall, the uranium deposits in the US are lower grade and more expensive to mine. This resulted in the country losing a big chunk of its market share to other countries including Au...Read More

June 6 (Reuters) - Australian shares were expected to open slightly lower on Tuesday, with commodity stocks set to come under pressure from falling oil and copper prices.Oil prices fell amid concerns that the cutting of ties with Qatar by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states could hamper a global deal to reduce oil production, while copper prices fell on a recovering dollar and an increase in Shangh...Read More

Ten of the people arrested on Sunday as part of investigations into the London Bridge attack have been released without charge, British police said on Monday, meaning that all 12 arrested in the aftermath of the incident have now been let go.The Metropolitan Police also said in a statement that specialist officers were working with families and the coroner to identify those who died in the attack....Read More

Australian police on Monday shot dead a gunman in the city of Melbourne who had been holding a woman hostage, police said, a confrontation for which the militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility.Australia, a staunch ally of the United States and its escalating action against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, has been on high alert for attacks by home-grown militants returning from fightin...Read More

(Adds confirmation of claimants' funding)By Andrew MacAskill and Lawrence WhiteLONDON, June 5 (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland is set to face a trial it had hoped to avert over its 2008 share sale, as the last group of holdout investors in the case secured the funds they need to proceed to trial, a source involved in the claim said on Monday.The claimants will receive the remaining 2 million po...Read More

By Mike Stone | WASHINGTONThe U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of more than $1.4 billion worth of military training and equipment for Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Monday, part of a $110 billion arms deal U.S. President Donald Trump sealed with the kingdom in May.The proposed sales include a radar system made by Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) as well as a training program f...Read More

Today precious metals prices have remained firm in a narrowly defined range, trading modestly higher. Market participants await the unfolding of three distinct events that will undoubtedly influence future pricing. Until then, traders and investors will be in a holding pattern, characterized by a wait and see attitude as events develop. It is likely that we will see narrowly defined ranges up unti...Read More

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - June 5, 2017) - Uranium Participation Corporation ("UPC") (TSX:U) reports its estimated net asset value at May 31, 2017 was CAD$407.5 million or CAD$3.37 per share. As at May 31, 2017, UPC's investment portfolio consisted of the following: (in thousands of Canadian dollars, except quantity amounts)QuantityFair ValueInvestments in Uranium: Uranium oxide in conce...Read More

* TSX down 32.97 points, or 0.21 percent, to 15,409.78* Eight of the TSX's 10 main groups were down* Financials down 0.2 percent, materials off 0.5 percent* Energy up 0.1 percent By Solarina HoTORONTO, June 5 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell on Monday as financial stocks dipped amid signs of cooling in Toronto's overheated housing market, while a rebound in energy stocks tempered some l...Read More

* Oil falls as Qatar rift threatens output cuts* Sterling recovers as investors focus on election* Wall Street closes lower as Apple losses offset gains in energy and finance sectors* Eyes are on Thursday's ECB meeting* Gold retreats after six-week high on Friday's U.S. jobs report (Adds Wall Street close; updates throughout)By Hilary RussNEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) - Wall Street stocks dipped on M...Read More

EU inflation remains muted even as economies there perk upChina's reflation impluse remains crucial to global pictureChina Inc. Healthy in Spite of DebtCentral bankers and investors are grappling with a $100 trillion question: why consumer price inflation remains so low in most parts of the world even as economic growth quickens.Compounding the riddle, question marks are now emerging over the one...Read More

ABUJA, June 5 (Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank introduced a new spread limit on interbank transactions on Monday, it said in a statement, in an attempt to boost liquidity in the currency market.All interbank transactions will be subject to a maximum spread of 1 naira ($0.0033), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said. A year ago, the bank had said the naira would trade with no pre-determined spre...Read More

LA PAZ, June 5 (Reuters) - Bolivian consumer prices fell 0.02 percent in May, bringing the country's inflation rate to 0.05 percent for the first five months of the year, the official National Statistics Institute said on Monday.The fall in May was due principally to a decrease in the price of food and nonalcoholic beverages, the institute said.Bolivia had an inflation rate of 4 percent in full-ye...Read More

If looking at Gold only in a vacuum, it looks good. Its uptrend since the start of the year remains intact and it has pushed above its 50 and 200-day moving averages. It closed the week at $1280/oz and could test $1300 next week. But looks can be deceiving. Considering the US Dollar index closed at a 7-month low today, Gold is lagging a bit. Moreover, both Silver and the gold miners have not confi...Read More