Loophole lets Norway’s $1 trillion fund boost its coal exposure

Unless demand picks up or more miners cut output, prices for raw materials are set to stay low for years, or worse, continue to drop, the investment bank predicts.

The EIA says China and India are to blame, as imports from both nations — which from 2008 to 2013 accounted for 98% of the increase in world coal trade —are on their way down.

The deaths of the alleged "terrorists" took place over a 56-day operation by security forces, the Chinese government said.

A miserable $400 million down from a high of $4.6 billion in 2012.

The Baltic Dry Index which tracks bulk shipping rates on more than 50 routes around the world drops to lowest since 1985.

The biggest drops were in the construction sector in Latin America (-41%) and in the resources industry in Asia (-37%).

The investigation aims to determine whether senior officials tried extorting Freeport’s Indonesian unit in return for letting the company continue to operate in the country.

Jurors have begun deliberating the fate of Blankenship, leader of the company that owned the Upper Big Branch mine at the time of a 2010 deadly explosion.

Canada's dominant oil sands player, however, plans to spend about $900 million more next year.