CALGARY - Encana Corp. has signed a deal to acquire Newfield Exploration Co. in an all-stock offer it said was worth about US$5.5 billion.Under the deal announced Thursday, Newfield shareholders will receive 2.6719 Encana shares for each share of Newfield common stock.Encana will also assume US$2.2 billion of Newfield debt."This strategic combination advances our strategy and is immediately accre...Read More
Huaqing Nickel & Cobalt (Huaqing), a wholly owned subsidiary of Huayou Cobalt (Huayou), plans to invest in a joint venture called Huayue Nickel & Cobalt (Huayue) in Indonesia with four other companies, Huayou announced on the Shanghai Futures Exchange on Tuesday October 30. The Huayue joint venture will build a laterite ore hydrometallurgy project producing intermediate products of nickel in Morow...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. online spending during the holiday shopping season is likely to grow 14.8 percent this year to $124.1 billion, far outpacing the 2.7 percent growth predicted for brick-and-mortar locations and highlighting the ongoing switch from stores to web shopping.The forecast was released on Thursday by Adobe Analytics, the web analytics arm of Adobe Systems Inc. The company measure...Read More
We all knew it was going to happen.Well, at least those of us who paid attention.The huge run on Canadian cannabis stocks did, in fact, come to an end just as legalization kicked in.Of course, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.You know the drill...Buy the rumor, sell the news.And that's exactly what we did.The result?Members of my Green Chip Stocks community just bagged the...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil fell on Thursday, on course for its fourth consecutive week of decline, as rising crude supply met the bearish combination of concern over global growth and weak equity markets.Russia is pumping oil at a post-Soviet high, U.S. crude output has topped 11 million barrels a day and a Reuters survey of OPEC production shows the group more than made up for any declines in Iranian...Read More
Premier Gold Mines Limited (TSX:PG) is a gold producer, with a high-quality pipeline of precious metal projects in proven, accessible and safe mining jurisdictions in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The goal is to evolve into a low-cost, mid-tier gold producer, through its two producing mines and the development of its Hardrock Project in Ontario (Greenstone Gold JV) and McCoy-Cove Property...Read More
As competition in the global steel markets remains fierce, Fastmarkets provides an update on the new, progressing and closed ferrous trade cases from around the world in October 2018.The case list below includes only updates. For other continuing cases this year, see the updates for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August and September.1. EU: seamless steel pipes and tubes from Ru...Read More
HONG KONG(Reuters) - The economic impact of the intensifying trade war between Washington and Beijing appeared to deepen last month with factory activity and export orders weakening across Asia, but analysts warned the worst was yet to come.In a sign conditions for exporters and factories were deteriorating, manufacturing surveys showed marginal growth in China, a slowdown in South Korea and Indon...Read More
A 1% increase in China's export rebate rate for hot-rolled coil will have a minimal impact on the spot market, traders in the country told Fastmarkets on Thursday November 1.The increase in the export rebate for HRC, from 9% to 10%, is just one of 3,449 product rebates announced by China's State Administration of Taxation on Thursday.Existing 9% rebates were increased to 1...Read More
The Thursday Market Minute Global stocks were mixed Thursday as investors gingerly returned to risk markets following the worst month for equities in at least two years amid lingering concerns over U.S.-China trade, rising interest rates and slowing economic growth.U.S. tech stocks are likely to remain in focus today after the biggest monthly decline for the Nasdaq in nearly 10 years and ahead o...Read More
AM Investco Italy, a consortium led by the world's largest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal, completed the transaction to acquire Italian steelmaker Ilva on Thursday November 1, the company said today.Following completion of the transaction, ArcelorMittal has assumed full management control of Ilva, which will form a new business cluster within ArcelorMittal Europe - Flat Products and be known as Arcelor...Read More
Turkish domestic rebar and wire rod prices went down this week because the value of the country's lira strengthened against the dollar, even though demand remained moderate, sources said on Thursday November 1.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic rebar on Thursday was TRY3,300-3,450 ($596-623) per tonne ex-works, including 18% VAT, down from last week's TRY3,380-3,520 per tonne.The lo...Read More
Turkish long steel export prices have remained stable over the past week on soft demand and despite the firm input costs, sources said on Thursday November 1.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for rebar exports out of Turkey was unchanged week on week on November 1 at $500-505 per tonne fob on an actual weight basis.The mills in the country were trying to keep their...Read More
ADEN (Reuters) - The Saudi-backed Yemeni government said on Thursday it was ready to work on confidence-building measures under U.N.-led peace efforts as the United States pressed for an end to a war that has pushed Yemen to the brink of starvation.Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who are leading a coalition fighting Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthi insurgents in a conflict that has...Read More
Steel billet import prices in Egypt fell in the week to Thursday November 1, on continuing limited demand in the country. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet imported into Egypt was $477-480 per tonne cfr on Thursday, compared with $480-490 per tonne cfr last...Read More
(Reuters) - Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O) Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch said Thursday it is still an “open question” whether the company will buy back the regional sports networks it sold to entertainment company Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) in July as part of a $71 billion deal.Speaking at the New York Times Co’s (NYT.N) DealBook conference in New York, Murdoch, who will...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - British sports minister Tracey Crouch resigned from government on Thursday, the BBC reported, in a row over whether ministers had delayed a proposed implementation of gambling reforms.The government is to cut the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) from 100 pounds to just two pounds, but not until next October. The move came after ministers opted to try to tack...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department unveiled an indictment against two companies based in China and Taiwan and three individuals on Thursday, saying they conspired to steal trade secrets from U.S. semiconductor company Micron (MU.O) relating to its research and development of memory storage device products.The charges against Taiwan-based United Microelectronics Corp (2303.TW), Chin...Read More
Pig iron export prices from the Black Sea region were largely stable this week, with sellers maintaining offers at the upper end of last week's price range, Fastmarkets learned on Thursday November 1.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for high-manganese pig iron was $365-375 per tonne fob Black Sea on Thursday, narrowing upward by just $5 per tonne.Cargoes intended for Italy originating in the B...Read More
TORONTO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli will present the fall economic statement of Canada's biggest province on Nov. 15, a spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of Finance said on Thursday.The province's new Progressive Conservative Party government, led by populist Doug Ford, accepted in September a recommendation made by a commission of inquiry that it should more than doubl...Read More