US says billionaire Gertler’s royalties must go to Congo for sanctions deal
A senior White House adviser said lifting that punishment is necessary to open up the assets to new investments that support US interests.
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Tuesday it expected its half-year earnings to rise by at least 80%, helped by an increased metals price and one-off impairments that weighed on results in the same period a year earlier.
Amplats said headline earnings for the six months ending June 30 were expected to be 2.69 billion rand ($188 million)more than the 3.363 billion rand earnings reported in the same period a year ago.
Amplats is expected to report its half-year results on July 22.
($1 = 14.3250 rand)
(By Tanisha Heiberg; Editing by Edmund Blair)
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