World stocks gain on Fed's low rate pledge The Charlotte Observer | BANGKOK World stock markets were mostly higher Thursday after the U.S. central bank pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery. | Benchmark oil hovered below $100 per barrel while the dollar fell against the euro and the yen. | Eur...
Apple boosts Aust stocks Sydney Morning Herald | AAP | Australian shares climb after market-beating results from Apple helped bourses shrug off growing concerns that Greece may default on its debt. | European and Wall Street fell overnight after eurozone officials rejected a final offer from the Greece's private bondholders, taking it one step c...
Amerigo's Q4 production falls Mining Weekly | Canada's Amerigo Resources' quarterly copper production fell by about 8% at its Minera Valle Central (MVC) operations in Chile. | The Chile-focused miner produced 12.09-million pounds of copper in the fourth quarter, down from 13.11-million...
Goldcorp agrees to higher 5% royalty in Guatemala Mining Weekly | TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – Canada’s second-biggest gold miner, Goldcorp, has struck a deal with Guatemala to increase its royalty rate by four percentage points to 5% of gross revenue, the company said on Friday. | The government anno...
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CTA diverts Lake Shore buses, airlines nix 700-plus flights Chicago Business | (Updated 3:45 p.m.) | (Crain's) - The Chicago Transit Authority has rerouted all buses from Lake Shore Drive this afternoon as a winter storm bears down on the city. | The mass t...
'Extinct' monkey still lives in Borneo CBC A team of scientists has discovered the Grizzled Langur, thought to be extinct, living in Borneo. (Eric Fell) | A Canadian-led team of international scientists has rediscovered a r...
Markets Live: Stocks follow leads higher Sydney Morning Herald | Australian shares are higher after Wall Street rose on good jobs data and corporate results, and European markets gained on successful euro zone bond sales. | 12.44pm: Shares in ...
Lake park opponents gather signatures for petition Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A direct legislation petition circulated by opponents of a lake park plan in Muskego may have enough signatures by next week to force a public referendum on whether the city should purchase two key properties. | The city is working to develop a park ...
Hague: 'No plan' for military action in Iran BBC News | Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. | The UK is "not planning" to take military action in Iran, Foreign Secretary William Hague has told MPs. | Mr Hague was answering an urgent question on 24 January 2012, tabled by Conservative Robert Halfon, who wanted to know what action was being taken against the country over its nu...
Oil up as Fed sees low rates through late 2014 The Guardian (Corrects contract delivery date in paragraph 8 to March.) * US Fed says will keep rates low until late 2014 * US weekly crude stocks rise 3.56 mln barrels -EIA * Coming Up: U.S. weekly jobless claims, Thursday By Gene Ramos NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Crude oil futures rose on Wednesday as investors cheered a plan by the U.S. Federal Reserve to k...
