“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share, no chance” —Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, June 2007.

Holiday parties, childcare benefits and Fridays off are being targeted as the rout in crude prices grinds into its 16th month, workers and company representatives say.

Copper retreated from the highest in almost two months on reports that Chile’s largest mines escaped damage from an 8.3-magnitude earthquake.

Mining employs about 440,000 in South Africa and makes up more than half of its exports.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has ordered some of India’s oldest coal-fired power plants to help make solar farms more competitive

While other gold companies have been stung by an 11 percent drop in prices in the past year, Colombia’s biggest producer is getting near-record high prices for its output thanks to its sinking local currency.

Industrial metals face at least six months of stagnation as market conditions in China deteriorate and low prices are needed to curb supply, Standard Chartered Plc said, slashing forecasts for this year and next.

Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, said he expects the U.S. Federal Reserve to resume quantitative easing even if it first raises benchmark rates by a fraction of a percent.

In the global iron ore market, the world’s two biggest exporters are expanding sales into the top customer, winning a greater share of trade as prices tumble.

South Africa President Jacob Zuma asked mining and steel companies to limit job cuts as falling commodity prices put profits at risk.

North Korea was the only country to boost coal shipments to China this year as Vietnamese supply slumped.

If you’ve ever been to a diamond investment pitch you’ve probably seen ‘The Chart,’ the one where diamond demand soars, while supply trails forlornly in its wake.