Culp expects 2020 and 2021 to be significantly betterThe shares of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) are higher today, shaking off the industrial conglomerate's 2019 outlook that fell short of expectations. More specifically, the company forecast adjusted full-year earnings of 50 cents to 60 cents per share, compared to the 70 cents per share consensus estimate, and said negative cash flow in it...Read More

The brokerage firm sees strong growth for the solar stockThe shares of Vivint Solar Inc (NYSE:VSLR) are up 4% to trade at $5.21, after Goldman Sachs took a bullish stance to the alternative energy sector. The brokerage firm said it anticipates " lower costs for solar and favorable policy support ... to drive meaningful upside to the market," and forecast year-over-year utility-sector solar install...Read More

A California jury awarded a woman $29 million The shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) are down 0.9% at $138.16 in early trading, after a California jury awarded $29 million to a woman who claimed that the asbestos in the company's talcum-based powder gave her cancer. The blue chip said it would appeal.JNJ shares plummeted in mid-December, amid reports the company was aware of asbestosin its bab...Read More

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's company Crispian has no plans at the moment to sell a further stake in mining giant Norilsk Nickel, Interfax news agency cited Crispian co-owner Vladimir Abramov as saying on Thursday.Abramovich sold $551 million worth of shares earlier this month.(By Anton Kolodyazhnyy, Andrey Kuzmin and Tom Balmforth; Editing by Mark Potter)Read More

Mizuho is very bullish on MSFT and CRMAnalysts this morning have issued new notes on tech stocks Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM). Let's take a look at how Wall Street is viewing shares of AAPL, MSFT, and CRM. It's been a big week for Apple shares, which just notched their highest close since early December. The stock is up another...Read More

Russia's trade and industry ministry is considering a temporary ban on the export of precious metals scrap and tailings, the ministry said, to promote domestic refining of the materials.The proposed ban would last from May 1 to Oct. 31 this year, the Kommersant newspaper reported earlier, citing ministry documents.Russian precious metal refining facilities - the main consumers of raw materials con...Read More

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Southern Copper Corp, one of the world's biggest copper producers, is considering an investment in a lithium project in Mexico that has also attracted interest from a Chinese firm, the company's chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday.Oscar Gonzalez said company officials visited the lithium project in the state of Sonora, Mexico, although he could not recall the name of the Canadian miner he sa...Read More

Southern Copper Corp, one of the world's biggest copper producers, is considering an investment in a lithium project in Mexico that has also attracted interest from a Chinese firm, the company's chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday.Oscar Gonzalez said company officials visited the lithium project in the state of Sonora, Mexico, although he could not recall the name of the Canadian miner he sa...Read More

South African coal mining company Exxaro Resources Ltd said on Thursday its full-year earnings climbed 7 percent, boosted by higher coal prices and the absence of one-off transactions seen a year earlier.Core headline earnings per share (HEPS) rose to 2,159 cents or 7.167 billion rand ($496.24 million) for the year ended Dec. 31, 2018, from 2,011 cents per share or 6.295 billion rand in the same p...Read More

Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund said on Thursday it had completed a joint deal with the Russia-China Investment fund and a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund to acquire a 9.53 stake in Russian mining company Intergeo.Intergeo, a part of Onexim Group, which manages the assets of Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, is developing its Kingash deposit in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region and Ak-Sug...Read More

Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund said on Thursday it had completed a joint deal with the Russia-China Investment fund and a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund to acquire a 9.53 stake in Russian mining company Intergeo.Intergeo, a part of Onexim Group, which manages the assets of Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, is developing its Kingash deposit in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region and Ak-Sug...Read More

China's industrial output grew at its slowest rate in 17 yearsDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are trading modestly above fair value this morning, as traders digest a raft of headlines. While China's industrial output grew at its slowest pace in 17 years in the first two months of 2019, a Bloomberg report indicated a trade meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Presiden...Read More

Vedanta Zinc International, a unit of diversified miner Vedanta Resources , said on Thursday it would close its zinc refinery in Namibia for five weeks after a strike by its mining contractor depleted stocks.Miners downed tools from Feb. 22 to March 6, affecting waste-stripping at the mine in southern Namibia and mining of ore, the firm said.The Skorpion Zinc Refinery continued operating during th...Read More

Advantage Lithium Corp said on Thursday it has temporarily replaced Chief Executive David Sidoo after he was arrested last week by U.S. authorities as part of a sweeping college admissions scheme.The company, which is developing a lithium project in Argentina, has named board member Callum Grant as its interim president. "All plans are the same to put Advantage into production at some point," spok...Read More

Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) (NYSE: GG) said workers at its Cerro Negro mine in Argentina have returned to work, after an illegal strike at the gold producing operation, the company's biggest in the South American country.Mining stopped on March 8, when members of the Asociaci??n Obrera Minera Argentina (AOMA) downed tools, and processing activities also ceased following the exhaustion of surface sto...Read More

Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) (NYSE: GG) said workers at its Cerro Negro mine in Argentina have returned to work, after an illegal strike at the gold producing operation, the company's biggest in the South American country.Mining stopped on March 8, when members of the Asociaci??n Obrera Minera Argentina (AOMA) downed tools, and processing activities also ceased following the exhaustion of surface sto...Read More

* GRAPHIC-2019 asset returns: (Adds closing prices, updates trade war)By Zandi ShabalalaLONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - Copper prices dropped onThursday as industrial output in top metals consumer China fellto a 17-year low in the first two months of 2019, while LMEstocks of the metal used in power and construction rose.Other Chinese data showed a mixed picture as the joblessrate climbed but property...Read More

(Updates prices) * British lawmakers vote on whether to delay Brexit later inday * Silver falls for first time in five sessionsBy Sumita LayekMarch 14 (Reuters) - Gold fell on Thursday, breaking belowkey technical support at $1,300, as the dollar edged up afterBritish lawmakers voted against a no-deal Brexit, while gains inEuropean stocks further dented bullion's allure.Spot gold was down 1 percen...Read More