This year may be anything but staid for the oil market as Citigroup Inc. predicts wildcards including war, Middle East tensions, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un driving crude toward $80 a barrel.Read full newsRead More

By Bruno Federowski and Anthony EspositoSAO PAULO/MEXICO CITY, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Mexico's currency weakened against the dollar on Wednesday and stocks extended losses after Reuters reported that Canada increasingly believes that U.S. President Donald Trump will soon announce his intention to withdraw from NAFTA.Two government sources told Reuters they expected Trump to pull the plug at about the...Read More

Canada's Pancontinental Gold Corporation (TSXV: PUC), a company whose focus is on the Jefferson gold project in South Carolina, wants to expand its presence in the market for key battery metals.The Toronto-based firm announced today that it has entered into an option agreement with 2522962 Ontario Incorporated to acquire a 100% interest in the Montcalm West Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project, located 65...Read More

Canada's Pancontinental Gold Corporation (TSXV: PUC), a company whose focus is on the Jefferson gold project in South Carolina, wants to expand its presence in the market for key battery metals.The Toronto-based firm announced today that it has entered into an option agreement with 2522962 Ontario Incorporated to acquire a 100% interest in the Montcalm West Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project, located 65...Read More

Canada's Pancontinental Gold Corporation (TSXV: PUC), a company whose focus is on the Jefferson gold project in South Carolina, wants to expand its presence in the market for key battery metals.The Toronto-based firm announced today that it has entered into an option agreement with 2522962 Ontario Incorporated to acquire a 100% interest in the Montcalm West Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project, located 65...Read More

(Corrects to 'increasingly' from 'increasing' in first paragraph)* TSX ends down 71.29 points, or 0.44 percent, at 16,247.95* Nine of index's 10 main sectors fall TORONTO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell on Wednesday, with the broad retreat accelerating in afternoon trade after Reuters reported that Canada is increasingly convinced the United States will withdraw from the North...Read More

(Adds analyst comment, update shares)By Joseph White and Aishwarya VenugopalJan 10 (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp is updating the software for its graphics processors in response to the Spectre security threat, but its chief executive said on Wednesday its chips were not subject to the same risks as those from Intel and other companies."Our GPUs are immune," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during...Read More

Stocks ended their winning streaks, finishing the day in the red, though the major market indexes settled well off their session lows. The Dow was down triple digits in early trading, amid reports that China will scale backbuying U.S. bonds. A rally in bank stocks helped the blue-chip index creep north of breakeven for a short time, but growing concerns that President Trump will pull out of the No...Read More

Jan 11 (Reuters) - Australian shares are expected to open lower on Thursday, reflecting weak sentiment on Wall Street on worries that China would slow U.S. government bond purchases.Wall Street's major stock indexes ended lower on Wednesday after a choppy trading session as investors worried that China, the world's biggest holder of U.S. Treasuries, would slow U.S. government bond purchases. Stren...Read More

Bango plc (LON:BGO), the mobile payments company, has partnered with Netflix to launch carrier billing for subscriptions in Mexico. Customers who sign up to Netflix, the media streaming giant, can now charge the monthly subscription cost to their pre- or post-paid mobile phone bill. Ray Anderson, Bango CEO tells Proactive the direct carrier billing platform is proving very popular with Mexico's 12...Read More

(Adds details on open letter, central bank chief Goldfajn comments)By Bruno FederowskiSAO PAULO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Brazil's 2017 inflation rate topped analysts' expectations but missed the official target range for the first time, setting the stage for interest rates to remain at all-time lows.The benchmark IPCA index rose 2.95 percent last year, the lowest annual rate since 1998 and below the g...Read More

CASABLANCA, Morocco, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Morocco's economic growth will slow to 2.8 percent this year, down from 4 percent in 2017, officials forecast on Wednesday, blaming a decline in agricultural production.A lack of rainfall will cause farming output to fall by 1.3 percent this year after a 13.6 percent gain last year due to better weather conditions, officials told reporters.Annual inflation w...Read More

TORONTO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Canadian railway, pipeline and other trade-sensitive stocks weighed on the country's main index on Wednesday as two government sources said Canada is increasingly convinced the United States plans to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed down 71.29 points, or 0.44 percent, at 16,...Read More

* Dollar index down 0.23 pct* Dollar down more than 1 pct vs yen (Updates prices, market activity, adds comments)By Saqib Iqbal AhmedNEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar fell to a more than six-week low against the Japanese yen and weakened against a basket of major currencies on Wednesday after a report that China was ready to slow or halt its U.S. Treasury purchases.Officials reviewing C...Read More

WELLINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Job advertisements in New Zealand slipped 0.3 percent for the second month in a row in December, a survey by ANZ Bank showed on Thursday.The result suggested that the country's robust demand for labour, driven by a strong economy and skill shortages, had peaked."The number of job ads being placed is very high, and both data and anecdote suggest the labour market...Read More

NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Wall Street's major stock indexes ended lower on Wednesday after a choppy trading session as investors worried that China would slow U.S. government bond purchases and that U.S. President Donald Trump would end a key U.S. trade agreement.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 16.67 points, or 0.07 percent, to 25,369.13, the S&P 500 lost 3.06 points, or 0.11 percent,...Read More

ALL TIMES IN EST/GMT -------------------------------------------------------0830/1330: The Labor Dept. issues weekly Jobless Claims; issues Producer Price Index for December.0830/1330: The USDA releases weekly Export Sales.1000/1500: Freddie Mac issues weekly U.S. mortgage rates.1030/1530: EIA issues weekly U.S. underground natural gas stocks.1100/1600: The Treasury Dept. makes weekly announcement...Read More

(Adds Nestle, SS&C, Bayer, Galeries Lafayette, Intesa SanPaolo, Henri Selmer Paris; Updates Twenty-First Century Fox Inc)Jan 10 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2100 GMT on Wednesday:** Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's planned deal with U.S. carrier AT&T Inc to sell its smartphones in the United States has collapsed at the 11th hour because...Read More

Part of the attractiveness of Thor Mining's (LON: THR) new reserve upgrade is that it allows for the extension of the mine life at the Molyhil tungsten-molybdenum project by 17% to seven years. CEO Mick Billing tells Proactive about the grade of the reserves and gives us an idea of volumes as well as bringing us up to date on Thor cost cutting and profitability aspirations. Also word here on congl...Read More

(Recasts first paragraph, adds comment)NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Strong demand at a $20 billion U.S. 10-year government note sale on Wednesday stabilized a bond market that was rattled by a Bloomberg report that said China may pare or stop buying Treasuries because it sees them as unattractive amid rising U.S.-China trade tension.China is the biggest foreigner holder of U.S. government debt, to...Read More