Two Mexican gold, silver and copper mines owned by billionaire Carlos Slim are back in operation after a series of strikes came to an end. The strikes at Slim's mining companies came to an end following a company decision to allow a wage increase for some workers. Miners at the San Francisco del Oro mine in Chihuahua and Minera Maria mine in Sonoro have negotiated salaries for the time ...
BHP raising stake and taking operatorship of WA petroleum project
SYDNEY - Global mining and petroleum exploration giant BHP Billiton Limited and Cue Energy Resources have agreed to increase their stakes in a petroleum exploration permit located in the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia, formerly run by a subsidiary of Woodside Petroleum Limited, with BHP also taking up the operatorship. Cue Energy Resources and BHP Billiton Ltd. have increased their ...
Lloyds shares rise on reports of overseas predators
shares rose more than 2 percent early on Monday after reports that overseas investors were considering buying up to half of the government's stake in the bank.Former Standard ...
Chinese insurer buys landmark Lloyds of London skyscraper
LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese insurer Ping An has bought the landmark London home of insurance market Lloyds of London for 260 million pounds, the first in a predicted wave of property deals by Chinese companies in London.A German fund managed by Commerz Real (part of Commerzbank) sold the building to the Chinese company in a deal that represents a rental yield of 6.1 percent, broker Savills said ...
Congress returns to busy July of nominations student loans farm bill and immigration
WASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats will put good will to the test when Congress returns this week to potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes over student loans and the farm bill, and the uncertainty of whether lawmakers have the political will to rewrite the nation's immigration laws. The cooperation evident in the Senate last month with passage of a ...
AGING AMERICA Home repair for health Simple fix-ups may keep low-income seniors independent
BALTIMORE -- Alberta Hough struggles to feed herself a snack, her arms shaking badly from Parkinson's disease. Days earlier, the 84-year-old fell while eating, sliding off her kitchen chair. The rest of Hough's day isn't much easier to navigate. She wobbles into a bathtub with no grab bar. Her feet catch on damaged floor tiles. Part of the banister she needs to steady herself on ...
AP IMPACT Internal report says MIA efforts dysfunctional risk total failure
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials. Largely beyond the public spotlight, the decades-old pursuit of bones and other MIA evidence is ...
Electric car charge firm Chargemaster to float on London market
Chargemaster, a provider of electric vehicle charging points, is planning to float on the stock market to capitalise on the shift towards more environmentally friendly cars.It is hoping to raise funds for expansion by listing on London's Alternative Investment Market (Aim) in July.The chief executive, David Martell, said the move would be "a significant step forward in the ...
German exports fell in May Trade with other Euro countries in balance in 2013
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SP downgrades SoftBank to junk status shares slide
9984.T ) debt rating two notches to "junk" grade, citing financial risks from its $21.6 billion purchase of U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp ...
Japans strong bank lending cant mask economic challenges
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese bank lending marked its biggest annual increase in four years in June, though service-sector sentiment worsened for the third straight month, undercoring the challenges facing the government even as its sweeping stimulus policies continue to spur economic ...
40 still missing in deadly Canada oil train derailment police say higher death toll certain
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec -- A Quebec town devastated when a runaway oil tanker train ignited explosions and fires braced Monday for what authorities assured would be a rising death toll as fire crews tried to reach the hardest hit areas more than two days after the disaster. Five were dead and about 40 people remained missing. The growing number of trains transporting crude oil in Canada and the ...
Teresa Heinz Kerry wife of secretary of state is critical but stable in Boston hospital
BOSTON -- Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, is in critical condition at a Boston hospital. Heinz Kerry was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on Sunday night after doctors at a hospital on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island stabilized her, said Glen Johnson, a spokesman for Kerry. The secretary of state was ...
Metals Stocks Gold futures log minor gain after selloff
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures rose Monday, logging a small gain after a 3% selloff at the end of last week was set off by stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs ...
This banking decision on remittances will hurt ethnic minorities
Thank God for bankers, I say. Journalists, we're not popular - but bankers, they're in a different league.More self-harm to report: a single decision with the potential to devastate the finances of millions, blight some of the poorest communities in the developing world and throw a spanner in the workings of ...
Traditional owners picket Whitehaven Coal mine site
New South Wales .Workers walked off the job at the $767 million Maules Creek project on Monday morning as more than 50 Gomeroi traditional owners formed a picket line.Whitehaven received final approvals to begin construction at the site near Boggabri last Thursday after a three-year process.Gomeroi traditional owner Stephen Talbot says the Maules Creek mine will clear more than 4000 acres of ...
Nationwide left Isa in limbo because of wrong sort code
Nationwide and Cheshire building societies are under the same umbrella but made heavy weather of a transfer between them. Photograph: Fiona ...
Geithners Lucrative Appearances as Public Speaker
Tim Geithner, the former US Treasury secretary, has been elevated to the highest rank of public speakers, alongside former world leaders Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, after receiving about $400,000 for three speaking engagements. A speech at a Deutsche Bank conference last month netted him about $200,000, according to people familiar with the situation, underscoring the lucrative fees that former ...
Reuters Suspends Early Distribution of Data
Thomson Reuters said it would suspend its early provision to a small group of clients of the widely watched Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment data at the request of the New York Attorney General. The news and information company has an agreement with the University of Michigan to allow some of its clients to receive the data 2 seconds before its other clients. But the ...
Bitcoin ATM Gets Ready for Roll Out
A cash machine that accepts the virtual currency bitcoin is set to be distributed around the globe this summer, according to its maker Lamassu, which expects pre-orders for the technology to be placed ...
Retailers Agree Bangladesh Factory Inspections
Leading names in European retail have backed plans for co-ordinated inspections of factories in Bangladesh, in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the building collapse that killed 1,129 people in April. The collapse of Rana Plaza, a factory built on swampy ground outside Dhaka, ranked among the world's worst industrial accidents and galvanised brands to look more closely at their ...
A Look Ahead This Weeks ETFs to Watch
Barron's reported . Or there could be some pleasant surprises. Either way, keep an eye on the following ETFs this week. SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF ...
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