Glencore is cutting the workforce at its Mutanda copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo to lower costs before a possible shift in production methods, according to people familiar with the matter.The company is studying the economic viability of those deposits, given rising production costs and an uncertainty political environment in CongoLabour unions met on Friday to discuss t...Read More
Arconic said on Friday it would split into two companies and slashed its quarterly dividend by two-thirds, just weeks after the U.S. aluminum products maker spurned a buyout offer from Apollo Global Management.The company, formed following a split of Aloca Corp in 2016, plans to spin off one of its core divisions later.The board sees more shareholder value creation through a restructuring of the c...Read More
The company is slated to report earnings on Valentine's DayThe shares of Outback parent Bloomin' Brands Inc (NASDAQ:BLMN) are lower this morning, after BofA-Merrill Lynch downgraded the stock to "underperform" from "neutral." The brokerage firm also cut its price target to $17 from $23, representing a discount to BLMN's close of $19.17 on Thursday. BofA-Merrill Lynch said the restaurant company wi...Read More
United States Steel Corporation founded Gary, Indiana in 1906 - naming it after co-founder Elbert Henry Gary - and the city's fortunes have been closely tied to the company ever since.When the firm started losing business to cheap Asian imports in the 1970s, waves of layoffs followed as Gary became a haven of blight, crime and lost population.Last year, the city harbored hopes for a revival after...Read More
India's Tata Steel Ltd reported an 83.6 percent surge in third-quarter standalone net profit on Friday, aided by robust domestic production.Standalone profit came in at 24.56 billion rupees ($344.94 million) compared with 13.38 billion rupees in the same period a year earlier, the steelmaker said.According to I/B/E/S data from Refinitiv, analysts on average had expected a profit of 25.40 billion r...Read More
Zimbabwean gold miner RioZim said on Friday it had suspended production at its three mines for the second time in four months because the central bank had failed to pay it in U.S. dollars for part of its gold deliveries.Gold producers in the southern African country sell their output to central bank subsidiary Fidelity Printers and Refiners and are supposed to be paid 55 percent of their earnings...Read More
Zimbabwean gold miner RioZim said on Friday it had suspended production at its three mines for the second time in four months because the central bank had failed to pay it in U.S. dollars for part of its gold deliveries.Gold producers in the southern African country sell their output to central bank subsidiary Fidelity Printers and Refiners and are supposed to be paid 55 percent of their earnings...Read More
Former Barrick Gold (Mostly Sunny; ABX) CEO and current Nutrien (Mostly Sunny; NTR) director Aaron Regent made a half million dollar bet on Nutrien stock December 27th. That investment is already up almost 10% in just 6 weeks.Click for largerThe returns were helped Thursday when the agricultural chemicals stock jumped 1.6% after the company reported Q4 results. Although the quarter, which generat...Read More
Glencore's Zambian unit Mopani Copper Mines Plc said on Friday it had suspended operations at its Mindola north shaft after three workers were killed in a fire accident.Mopani is one the biggest mining companies in Zambia - Africa's No. 2 producer of the metal - with an output of around 100,000 tonnes a year. It was not immediately clear how much production would be lost owing to the suspended pro...Read More
Ecuador-focused explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said Friday it was "surprised and disappointed" at how quickly Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX-V:CGP) dismissed a takeover approach, adding that it will bring the offer directly to the target's shareholders.Last month, SolGold put forward what it called a "premium" offer for Cornerstone's 15% share of the Cascabel copper-gold project in exchange...Read More
Ecuador-focused explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said Friday it was "surprised and disappointed" at how quickly Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX-V:CGP) dismissed a takeover approach, adding that it will bring the offer directly to the target's shareholders.Last month, SolGold put forward what it called a "premium" offer for Cornerstone's 15% share of the Cascabel copper-gold project in exchange...Read More
Fellow toy stock Hasbro is set to slump post-earnings, thoughThe shares of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT) are up 16.1% in electronic trading, which would mark their biggest one-day gain since a 20.7% surge in November 2017. The toy stock is reacting to the company's unexpected fourth-quarter profit of 4 cents per share, while revenue of $1.52 billion also came in above estimates. Mattel cited strong Ba...Read More
Ecuador-focused explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said Friday it was "surprised and disappointed" at how quickly Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX-V:CGP) dismissed a takeover approach, adding that it will bring the offer directly to the target's shareholders.Last month, SolGold put forward what it called a "premium" offer for Cornerstone's 15% share of the Cascabel copper-gold project in exchange...Read More
Ecuador-focused explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said Friday it was "surprised and disappointed" at how quickly Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX-V:CGP) dismissed a takeover approach, adding that it will bring the offer directly to the target's shareholders.Last month, SolGold put forward what it called a "premium" offer for Cornerstone's 15% share of the Cascabel copper-gold project in exchange...Read More
At least 13 price-target hikes have been issued already on EXPEThe shares of Expedia Group Inc (NASDAQ:EXPE) are up 6.7% in electronic trading, after the travel operator reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.24 cents per share, well above the consensus per-share estimate of $1.08, while revenue of $2.56 billion also beat the $2.54 billion forecast. Analysts are toasting the upbeat repo...Read More
Trade-sensitive stocks like Boeing are in the redDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are down triple digits again today, amid lingering concerns about global trade. Specifically, President Donald Trump said he has no plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping prior to the March 1 deadline to come to a trade agreement. As such, trade-sensitive stocks like Boeing (BA) are lower ahead of...Read More
South Africa's Harmony Gold said on Friday its earnings per share for the first half of the year could be up to 97 percent lower than this time last year.The gold miner said a 915 million rand ($67 million) depreciation charge, lower derivatives gains and unfavourable currency conversion hit earnings, while costs also rose 6 percent.Headline earnings per share - a key profit measure in South Afric...Read More
South Africa's Harmony Gold said on Friday its earnings per share for the first half of the year could be up to 97 percent lower than this time last year.The gold miner said a 915 million rand ($67 million) depreciation charge, lower derivatives gains and unfavourable currency conversion hit earnings, while costs also rose 6 percent.Headline earnings per share - a key profit measure in South Afric...Read More
VCRA had been a strong performer on the charts Vocera Communications Inc (NYSE:VCRA), a provider of a variety of mobile solutions for industries like healthcare and hospitality, has seen its stock rise on the charts in recent years. But today the shares are setting up for a sell-off, down 21.9% in pre-market trading, after the company's quarterly results. For the fourth quarter, Vocera's revenue c...Read More
Iron ore futures surged more than 5 percent to hit the highest level since 2014 on concern that the increasingly severe crisis at top producer Vale SA will curtail global supplies, tightening the seaborne market and offsetting the impact of a slowdown in China, the largest importer.Vale invoked force majeure earlier this week after a judge forced it to suspend some operations at its Brucutu mine i...Read More