By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Iron Investing News With key indicators across developed economies showing an improvement in the quarter, mining heavyweight BHP Billiton Ltd has teamed up with rivals Rio Tinto Group and Posco, Asia’s most profitable steelmaker, in raising iron-ore production. An uptick in demand from automakers and builders has ensured a good [...]
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Iron Investing News The world’s eighth-largest steel maker, India’s Tata Steel Ltd (TISC.BO), has said it expects its European unit Corus to be operating at full capacity by the end of the fiscal year in March. Corus, Europe’s second-largest steelmaker, operated at 80 per cent capacity in October. In a [...]
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Iron Investing News China, the world’s biggest steel producer, is flexing its muscles again. The country is eager to replace the benchmark arrangement price long used by the industry for iron ore imports with one that will give it a bigger say. Last week’s major meeting between the world’s iron [...]
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive to Iron Investing News The talks haven’t borne fruit, as yet. Even as news comes filtering in that China has landed a 40 per cent price cut with the Top Three ore miners, final iron ore talks for fiscal 2009/2010 have yet to see the light of day. Shan Shanghua, secretary-general [...]
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive to Iron Investing News Rio Tinto Ltd. (LON:RIO) gave a gloomy assessment of global commodity markets Tuesday, saying there is unlikely to be much of a rebound this year and warning the downturn will continue to hit its profits. The downbeat outlook reinforces the company’s message that it needs to proceed [...]
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Iron Investing News The closure of major steel operations in the Hamilton area are set to reverberate around the economy, potentially affecting everyone from iron ore producers in Quebec and Labrador to coal companies in Western Canada. Pittsburgh-based United States Steel Corp. has said it will indefinitely idle operations at [...]
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive to Iron Investing News The second week of February brings some cheer for the iron ore sector. There are very initial signs that contrary to analysts’ expectations at the start of the year of a drop of about 40 per cent in iron ore prices this year, improving sentiments may not see [...]
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
By Melissa Pistilli-Exclusive to Iron Investing News The Baltic Dry Index (BDI), what has been referred to as the “canary in the coal mine” for global trade health, rose 7.5 per cent on Friday. This latest development has injected a dose of optimism into the iron ore market. “Indications are that miners have been [...]
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
By Melissa Pistilli-Exclusive to Iron Investing News Customers of the world’s three largest iron ore producers have asked for shipment deferrals leading the big miners to consider production cutbacks. Vale [NYSE: RIO], the world leader, has cut output by 10 per cent and maintains it will cooperate with customers needs. Rio Tinto [RTP] has also [...]
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
By Melissa Pistilli-Exclusive to Iron Investing News EU objects to BHP takeover of Rio The European Commission (EU) has issued a statement of objections to BHP Billiton Ltd. concerning its hostile takeover of Rio Tinto Inc. The statement outlines the potential competition problems that may result from such a merger. EU anti-trust regulators have voiced concerns [...]
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