April 12, 2012 World Bank trims China’s growth outlook The World Bank cut its growth forecast for China on Thursday, adding to warnings the world’s second-largest economy might slow too abruptly, and said Beijing should be ready to launch…
April 12, 2012 Canadian Eldorado’s gold production keeps growing Canadian miner Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD) (NYSE:EGO), which recently closed its acquisition of European Goldfields, expects its yearly gold production to touch 1.7 million ounces within five years as it brings…
April 11, 2012 Iron ore price hits 6-month high The price is up more than 27% from lows struck in October last year when the steelmaking ingredient experienced a mini crash.
April 11, 2012 Vale vs IMF: Who are you going to believe? Using the dismal science to make forecasts and taking risks with real money are two very different things. And the Brazilian giant is definitely putting its money where its mouth…
April 11, 2012 Look ma, no rare earths Hitachi has built an 11-kilowatt motor that uses no rare earth materials. The motor took four years to develop, and commercial production is expected in two years.
April 11, 2012 How serious are China and India about their gold? Despite the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 suffering their worst day of the year on Tuesday, precious metals were able to decouple and climb higher.
April 10, 2012 China’s upcoming leadership change It's not just the United States that will have a potentially major leadership shake up this fall.
April 10, 2012 A worry for Caterpillar: plunging Chinese excavator sales Caterpillar has gotten a lot of juice out of overseas sales, and China’s been a growing market for the company. So anything undermining that is a concern for investors.
April 10, 2012 Molycorp’s rare earth reserves jump 36% U.S.-based Molycorp, Inc., one of the only non-Chinese producers of rare earths, announced today that its proven and probable reserves of rare earth minerals at its Mountain Pass, California facility…
April 10, 2012 No bubble here: Rogers says Chinese property market is cooled down Legendary commodity-investor and Singapore resident, Jim Rogers, told China Daily News that the property market has been slowed down and there is no crisis.
Australia’s iron ore hub resumes operations after tropical cyclone Mitchell While the Port of Port Hedland has resumed operations, the ports of Ashburton, Cape Preston West, Dampier, and Varanus Island remain closed. February 08, 2026 | 05:17 pm