Teck, the largest producer of steel-making coal in North America, said the write-downs reflect lower expectations for commodity prices.Canadian mining giant Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.A, TCK.B), (NYSE: TCK) swung to a loss in the third quarter of the year due to a $1.7 billion (Cdn$2.2 billion) asset impairment charge in its steel-making coal and other businesses.The Vancouver-based company, the lar...Read More

Australia's Clean TeQ Holdings Limited, a long-time industry leader in environmental remediation, has recently partnered with China's largest power generator to treat waste water with its unique continuous-ion technology. This technology also allows Clean TeQ to extract metals from minerals and industrial waste, but as Clean TeQ Chairman Sam Riggall explains in this interview with The Gold Report,...Read More

The Internet May Be Changing Your Brain In Ways You've Never Imagined… Five years ago, journalist Nicholas Carr wrote in his book The Shallows: How The Internet Is Changing Our Brains about the way technology seemed to be eroding his ability to concentrate. "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words," he wrote. "Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."...Read More

For example, Japan just reported another trade deficit. Despite forecasts for a gain in exports, they grew at the slowest pace in more than a year in September, while exports to China fell 3.5 percent. "China-bound exports fell for a second straight month in terms of value and volume, that weighed on exports," a finance ministry official said. "We must pay the utmost attention to Ch...Read More

The Internet May Be Changing Your Brain In Ways You've Never Imagined… Five years ago, journalist Nicholas Carr wrote in his book The Shallows: How The Internet Is Changing Our Brains about the way technology seemed to be eroding his ability to concentrate. "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words," he wrote. "Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."...Read More

For example, Japan just reported another trade deficit. Despite forecasts for a gain in exports, they grew at the slowest pace in more than a year in September, while exports to China fell 3.5 percent. "China-bound exports fell for a second straight month in terms of value and volume, that weighed on exports," a finance ministry official said. "We must pay the utmost attention to Ch...Read More

Pia Hontiveros interviews Liberal Party VP bet Leni Robredo. http://cnn.ph/1KcJvUARead More

Jamie went through so much while at Wentworth Prison.After nearly being hung; the torture, rape and manipulation of Jamie at the hands of Captain Black Jack Randall leaves him mentally and physically suffering.This video is about Jamie's journey through his torment.Needless to say, I'm looking forward to better days for Jamie... and Claire.Visual credit : Starz original series OutlanderSong credit...Read More

A recent survey of over 100 decision-makers at Latin American mines by Timetric's Mining Intelligence Centre (MIC) has found a higher share of respondents plan to invest in remote control equipment and machine automation technologies in the next two years, compared with any other technology.Respondents were asked to outline their attitudes and plans towards investing in a range of mine-site tech...Read More

Ivanhoe Mines' Kamoa project in the DRC is thought to hold the world's largest untouched high-grade copper discovery. (Image courtesy of Ivanhoe Mines)Canada's Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) expects to begin mining copper from its giant Kamoa project in the Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2018, as the company foresees a looming deficit in the market and rising global demand.The Vancouver-based mi...Read More

Speaker John Boehner seeks compromise with Democrats over raising the debt limit … House Speaker John A. Boehner has lowered expectations for reaching a sweeping budget deal with the White House and instead is focusing on the more immediate task of averting a looming showdown over the debt ceiling. Raising the debt limit has become one of the most difficult votes for Republicans in Washingto...Read More

I met with the staff in charge of agricultural assistance at the World Bank and other international aid agencies, but no one recalled hearing about a Chinese pledge to provide $800 million for rice production or any stories of public outrage or government denials of a plan to bring in Chinese settlers. At the International Monetary Fund's Maputo office, a staff member who had been tracking Chi...Read More

Speaker John Boehner seeks compromise with Democrats over raising the debt limit … House Speaker John A. Boehner has lowered expectations for reaching a sweeping budget deal with the White House and instead is focusing on the more immediate task of averting a looming showdown over the debt ceiling. Raising the debt limit has become one of the most difficult votes for Republicans in Washingto...Read More

I met with the staff in charge of agricultural assistance at the World Bank and other international aid agencies, but no one recalled hearing about a Chinese pledge to provide $800 million for rice production or any stories of public outrage or government denials of a plan to bring in Chinese settlers. At the International Monetary Fund's Maputo office, a staff member who had been tracking Chi...Read More

Cejay Kim October 21, 2015 Category: Research The S&P 500 is the most commonly used benchmark in measuring the performance of stocks. Because of the size of its constituents and the liquidity of its market, it is also used as a leading indicator of US equities in general. Thus, a lot of people look to the S&P 500 to get a feel of where stocks will trade in the future.We charted the S&P...Read More

Cejay Kim October 21, 2015 Category: Research The S&P 500 is the most commonly used benchmark in measuring the performance of stocks. Because of the size of its constituents and the liquidity of its market, it is also used as a leading indicator of US equities in general. Thus, a lot of people look to the S&P 500 to get a feel of where stocks will trade in the future.We charted the S&P...Read More

Cejay Kim October 21, 2015 Category: Research The S&P 500 is the most commonly used benchmark in measuring the performance of stocks. Because of the size of its constituents and the liquidity of its market, it is also used as a leading indicator of US equities in general. Thus, a lot of people look to the S&P 500 to get a feel of where stocks will trade in the future.We charted the S&P...Read More

Cejay Kim October 21, 2015 Category: Research The S&P 500 is the most commonly used benchmark in measuring the performance of stocks. Because of the size of its constituents and the liquidity of its market, it is also used as a leading indicator of US equities in general. Thus, a lot of people look to the S&P 500 to get a feel of where stocks will trade in the future.We charted the S&P...Read More

Cejay Kim October 21, 2015 Category: Research The S&P 500 is the most commonly used benchmark in measuring the performance of stocks. Because of the size of its constituents and the liquidity of its market, it is also used as a leading indicator of US equities in general. Thus, a lot of people look to the S&P 500 to get a feel of where stocks will trade in the future.We charted the S&P...Read More

Cejay Kim October 21, 2015 Category: Research The S&P 500 is the most commonly used benchmark in measuring the performance of stocks. Because of the size of its constituents and the liquidity of its market, it is also used as a leading indicator of US equities in general. Thus, a lot of people look to the S&P 500 to get a feel of where stocks will trade in the future.We charted the S&P...Read More