Glencore will temporarily suspend operations at Lady Loretta and reduce production at George Fisher and McArthur River operations, the company announced on Friday.ABC News reports that 242 workers will lose their jobs at Lady Loretta Mine while while 224 positions will be lost from George Fisher, and 69 at the McArthur mine.The closures gave zinc a bump. The Wall Street Journal says zinc rose 6.7%...Read More
For conscious shoppers at Whole Foods, it was a nightmare to learn that the company had US prison labor in its supply chain. After more than a year of negative publicity culminating in protests outside of its stores in Houston, Texas, Whole Foods announced last week that it will stop sourcing foods that are made with prison labor. Happy ending? Not so fast.Corporations like Whole Foods need to be...Read More
For conscious shoppers at Whole Foods, it was a nightmare to learn that the company had US prison labor in its supply chain. After more than a year of negative publicity culminating in protests outside of its stores in Houston, Texas, Whole Foods announced last week that it will stop sourcing foods that are made with prison labor. Happy ending? Not so fast.Corporations like Whole Foods need to be...Read More
Robert Shiller Interview: why one of the world's smartest economists is worried about the bond marketYale professor and Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller talks to Merryn Somerset Webbabout the bond market, and how the power of 'stories' drives the global economy, and creates financial bubbles.Recorded February 2015Click here to sign up to MoneyWeek videos: http://tinyurl.com/zg57szyRead More
Albert Lu interviews Maurice Jackson. Topics discussed in this interview include Investing, What Money is, Black Lives Matter, Liberty, and more. You don't want to miss this one!Read More
Official audio for The Game & Skrillex - "El Chapo"Produced by BangladeshCoproduced by SkrillexAvailable now on iTunes: http://flyt.it/D2applemusicListen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/skrillex/the-g...Follow more from Skrillex:http://facebook.com/skrillexhttp://twitter.com/skrillexhttp://instagram.com/skrillexhttp://soundcloud.com/skrillexhttp://skrillex.comOfficial Skrillex Store: http://...Read More
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Appearing on India Today Television's show To The Point, hosted by Karan Thapar, TN Ninan expressed his views about the current economic situation in India.Follow us:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYPv...Twitter: https://twitter.com/IndiaTodayFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/IndiaTodayRead More
Image by Rawhead RexGFMS Thomson Reuter's closely watched annual base metals review and outlook contains some stark warnings for copper miners.The industry has made progress to reduce costs - since the first quarter of 2014 average cash costs have dropped by $303 a tonne according to GFMS calculations.Over the same period the price of copper is down by $998 a tonne. And since the end of the June q...Read More
Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold's Grasberg mine is the world's largest gold mine and third largest copper mine.Copper and gold giant Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) was trading higher Thursday afternoon after the company announced that Indonesia has promised the company to extent the mining contract for its giant Grasberg mine beyond 2021.The approval will include "the same rights and the same level...Read More
Peru's government declared martial law in parts of its southern highlands last week after protests against the $7.4 billion Las Bambas copper mine, owned by a consortium led by China's MMG Ltd. resulted in at least three deaths. (Image via Twitter @NewsRevo)Social conflicts and red tape have caused the delay of $21.5 billion worth of mining projects in recent years in Peru, one of the world's lar...Read More
If the Defense Department, the CIA, and our largest corporations can be hacked, certainly 50 states and over 3,000 separate county systems are no match for individuals or nation states that might want to influence the outcome of elections. This is particularly true because nowadays things in the world of electronics and elections are as complex as ever. Even if we are casting our ballots on the In...Read More
If the Defense Department, the CIA, and our largest corporations can be hacked, certainly 50 states and over 3,000 separate county systems are no match for individuals or nation states that might want to influence the outcome of elections. This is particularly true because nowadays things in the world of electronics and elections are as complex as ever. Even if we are casting our ballots on the In...Read More
Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees to battle SMERSH's hold on the lavish Casino Royale only after organization head M is murdered. Also mixed up in the affair ar...Read More
Legendary financier Carl Icahn came to an agreement with Freeport McMoran to install two new directors on its board.Icahn's firm owns approximately 100 million shares of FCX common stock, which represents approximately 8.8% of FCX's outstanding shares.News of the deal sent Freeport-McMoran up 9.97% to $13.01.Andrew Langham and Courtney Mather have been appointed to FCX's Board of Directors. With...Read More
Morgan Stanley sees a sharp reversal in commodities with prices rising nearly 20% by 2017 making mining stocks historically attractiveInvestors returned to the metals and mining sector in a big way on Wednesday after an analyst report called a bottom in the commodities rout.On the Comex market in New York copper for delivery in December climbed 1.7% to a three-week high of $2.3960 or $5,280 a tonn...Read More
Polysole LV1250 and Traverse TF4000 Have Successfully Passed the USDA BioPreferred Program's Stringent Independent Certification ProcessVancouver, BC - Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. (TSX-V:SGB) announces today that it has earned a USDA Certified Biobased Product and Packaging Label for its Polysole LV1250 injection molding bioplastic verifying its 85% bio-based content. Solegear's TF4000...Read More
Four in 10 Americans say they have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust and confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This ties the historical lows on this measure set in 2014 and 2012. Prior to 2004, slight majorities of Americans said they trusted the mass media, such as newspapers, TV and radio.Americans' confidence in the media...Read More
Four in 10 Americans say they have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust and confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This ties the historical lows on this measure set in 2014 and 2012. Prior to 2004, slight majorities of Americans said they trusted the mass media, such as newspapers, TV and radio.Americans' confidence in the media...Read More