Commodities
Rare-earth metals: The new China syndrome
28 September 2009A draft report recently made public by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) indicated that the Chinese government was considering a ban on the export of yttrium, terbium and dysprosium, a small furor arose. more...
China may boost energy and mining acquisitions
18 August 2009Leaving alone the unhappy law suit against the Australian company Rio Tinto (impossible to draw a conclusion at any time in the near future but some of the stories coming out of China have not been in remote touch with the truth) China is keen to got on increasing its spending by at least half this year to take advantage the slump in commodity prices.
State-owned Yanzhou Coal Mining has agreed to buy Australia’s Felix Resources for about $2.9 billion. more...
