Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.By Gavin Montgomery, Research DirectorThe electric vehicle exuberance has been gaining traction in recent years. Governments are setting ever more aggressive targets on internal combustion engine bans, while automakers have been jocke...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.By Gavin Montgomery, Research DirectorThe electric vehicle exuberance has been gaining traction in recent years. Governments are setting ever more aggressive targets on internal combustion engine bans, while automakers have been jocke...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.By Gavin Montgomery, Research DirectorThe electric vehicle exuberance has been gaining traction in recent years. Governments are setting ever more aggressive targets on internal combustion engine bans, while automakers have been jocke...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.By Gavin Montgomery, Research DirectorThe electric vehicle exuberance has been gaining traction in recent years. Governments are setting ever more aggressive targets on internal combustion engine bans, while automakers have been jocke...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.By Gavin Montgomery, Research DirectorThe electric vehicle exuberance has been gaining traction in recent years. Governments are setting ever more aggressive targets on internal combustion engine bans, while automakers have been jocke...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.By Gavin Montgomery, Research DirectorThe electric vehicle exuberance has been gaining traction in recent years. Governments are setting ever more aggressive targets on internal combustion engine bans, while automakers have been jocke...Read More
HELSINKI, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Finnish mining technology company Outotec will pull out of Iran due to the new U.S. sanctions, a company spokeswoman said on Monday.Outotec, which builds plants, makes equipment and offers services for the metal and mineral processing industries, has a long history in Iran and it remained in the market after the United States instituted sanctions against Iran in 201...Read More
* Saudi Arabia's Falih: "I do not influence prices"* Falih: latest data doesn't justify output rise next year* Trump demanded OPEC boost output immediately* Iran says Washington insulting own allies in Middle East* Iran softens stance on possible OPEC output increase (Updates with Falih, OPEC report)By Rania El Gamal, Ahmad Ghaddar and Olesya AstakhovaALGIERS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - OPEC's...Read More
* Asian stock markets : https://tmsnrt.rs/2C2BSt0* Markets in Japan, South Korea, China closed for holiday* Investor focus on Sino-U.S. trade war, Brexit, Fed meeting* U.S. tariffs on $200 bln Chinese imports come into effect Monday* Safe haven yen ticks up, Aussie slips, Sterling at 1-1/2 wk lowsBy Swati PandeySYDNEY, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The safe haven yen gained on Monday in holiday-thinned trad...Read More
NEW DELHI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India and the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India are closely monitoring developments in financial markets and are ready to take appropriate steps if needed, a central bank statement said on Sunday.The statement comes after the Indian stocks, forex and bonds market turned volatile on Friday on worries over weak balance sheets o...Read More
ALGIERS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia ended their meeting on Sunday with no formal recommendation for any additional supply boost.Oman's Oil Minister Mohammed bin Hamad Al-Rumhy and Kuwaiti counterpart Bakhit al-Rashidi told reporters that producers had agreed they needed to focus on reaching 100 percent compliance with production cuts agreed at an OPEC meetin...Read More
Gold, base metals downCapital marketsThe key to the unexpected optimism at a time of global political tension can be found in the exposure of the majors such as BHP, Rio Tinto and South32 to bulk commodities, which have been larg...Read More
Forum Energy Metals (TSXV: FMC) is expanding its portfolio. From focusing on copper and uranium in Saskatchewan, the Vancouver-based miner now wants to work on extracting a wider array of products, from precious metals to minerals aimed at supplying the EV market.This week, Forum announced that it has executed a formal agreement to acquire, for a total of $75,000, the Quartz Gulch cobalt property...Read More
Researchers at Soonchunhyang University in South Korea are processing copper nanoparticle ink with green laser light to use it for printing cheaper electronic circuits.In a paper published in the journal AIP Advances, the scientists explain that metallic inks are composed of nanoparticles and they hold an advantage over bulk metals because of their lower melting points.To explore the limits of suc...Read More
By Sanjeev Miglani and Ingrid MelanderNEW DELHI/PARIS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced calls for his resignation over allegations of corruption in a military jet deal with France after former French president Francois Hollande was quoted as saying New Delhi had influenced the choice of a local partner.Indian political parties have been gunning for Modi over the 2016 p...Read More
MUMBAI, Sept 22 (Reuters) - IL&FS Investment Managers, a unit of India's Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) which announced debt defaults this week, said on Saturday its Managing Director Ramesh Bawa had resigned.IL&FS has revealed a series of delays and defaults on its debt obligations and inter-corporate deposits in recent days and ICRA (NS:ICRA) cut the rating o...Read More
(Corrects company name to IL&FS Financial Services in paragraph 4, not IL&FS)NEW DELHI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - India's Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) ILFSL.UL was unable to service its obligations on interest payments on non-convertible debentures that were due on Friday, the company said in a statement.The company was also unable to meet its obligations for a let...Read More
Hudbay to take part of Doubleview's HatM&APolarX points to upsideSPONSOREDpolarx ltd Highland president and CEO Denis Miville Deschenes admitted at the Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit "it's very tough at the moment on the equity side" with the company's sub-C$50 million market cap. It has strong backers in the form of Greenstone Resources (17%), Orion Mine Finance (15%) and Osisko Gol...Read More
* Both NSE, BSE indexes decline 0.8 pct* Indexes post biggest weekly drop since Aug 2017Sept 21 (Reuters) - Indian shares erased most of the losses on Friday after panic selling in housing finance and property stocks saw key stock indexes plunge over 3 percent in intraday trade.The broader NSE index .NSEI closed 0.81 percent lower at 11,143.10, while the benchmark BSE index .BSESN fell 0.75 percen...Read More
By Krishna N. Das and Sanjeev MiglaniNEW DELHI/BHOMADA, India, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Narendra Modi swept India's 2014 general election with the slogan "Achhe din (good days) are coming".Four years later, as Prime Minister Modi mobilises to win re-election in May, he and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are being buffeted for a lack of jobs, falling farm prices and rural wages, a tax reform that led...Read More