Clive Palmer, the owner of a company involved in Australian mining projects, is planning to build an exact replica of the RMS Titanic and intends calling the oceangoing vessel Titanic II.
Red Kite co-founder Michael Farmer is among a select number of major conservative party donors who have attended private dinner parties hosted by David Cameron in his flat at 11 Downing Street.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had some words of caution for China after the close of the National Peoples Congress, the ruling elite’s annual gathering in Beijing to set policy priorities for the year ahead.
Protestors at the ArcelorMittal Florange site in eastern France have let a number of trucks pass, carrying material products from the facility to German car manufacturer Volkswagen, a union representative told Metal Bulletin on Tuesday, March 13.
Hotline is used to volatility in the base metals markets, and is not surprised to see the odd flash crash in copper from time to time, but recent movements in the gold price left this reporter a little dumbfounded.
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EXPERT VIEW FROM ERNST & YOUNG: Horror week favours the brave
Seven days is a long time in the investment world, but last week must have felt longer than most.
COMMENT: When super-cycle poster child BHP Billiton trims its plans...
BHP Billiton is one of the poster children for the commodities super-cycle: a mining company whose immense upstream assets in copper and iron ore have fed the industrialisation of China since the early years of the 21st century and enabled it to return $52 billion to shareholders between 2001 and 2011.
LORD COPPER: There is nothing to fear after JP Morgan loss ...
So, here we go again. Another bank, another huge trade gone bad. This one doesn’t even appear to have been a case of rogue trading; a whole desk seems to have been operating with the full knowledge of the management and/or risk committee.
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