Precious Metals Shine

(c) Financial Times Limited – 2010

• Glencore pays a price for Xstrata deal February 5, 2012
  Investors in Xstrata would receive 2.8 Glencore shares for every share in the mining group they hold […]
• A merger fit for world domination February 5, 2012
  Consolidating mining and trading bodes ill for consumers. The analogy in the oil market would be a Saudi Arabia producing three times more crude than it already does […]
• Call for Bumi vote on Rothschild criticised February 5, 2012
  Person close to the group says investors have long been critical of Mr Hudaya but that the idea of ousting Mr Rothschild is more contentious […]
• Giant new ships test limits of risk and reward February 5, 2012
  The Costa Concordia and the less-known Ponta de Madeira incident have prompted disquiet over maritime industry’s pursuit of scale efficiencies […]
• Iran softens line on cutting oil to Europe February 5, 2012
  Iran has indicated that its threat to cut oil supplies to European states in order to pre-empt an EU oil embargo may be only a symbolic one […]
• Europe sees surge in clean power February 5, 2012
  Seventy one per cent of all the new power generating capacity fitted in the EU last year came from solar panels, wind turbines or other renewable energy sources […]
• Mining magnates eye Australia’s media February 5, 2012
  As natural resources have become the engine of the economy, there is a new force with the potential to shape the press landscape […]
• Dinner that put Glencore-Xstrata on the menu February 3, 2012
  A series of issues had held up a merger, key among them the governance structure of a combined group […]
• Winter freeze fuels fear of wheat price jump February 3, 2012
  The freeze in eastern Europe leads to cuts in forecasts but prices soften after Russia says there is no need for export restrictions in April […]