South African stainless steel producer Columbus Stainless confirmed on Friday that there was at least 1,000 tonnes of nickel on MSC Napoli that was abandoned in the English channel during a storm.
“We have about one thousand tonnes of nickel on board,” Leata Geneade, import administrator at Columbus Stainless told Reuters over the telephone from Durban [...]
Suedzucker AG, the world’s biggest sugar processor, said second-quarter profit advanced 1.9 percent, the first gain in more than a year, as the costs of expanding into ethanol production fell.
Net income rose to 63.4 million euros ($79.4 million) in the three months ended Aug. 31, from 62.2 million euros a year earlier, Mannheim, Germany-based Suedzucker [...]
France, the world’s largest producer of nuclear energy, stopped reporting the weekly operations at the nation’s 58 reactors, ending disclosure of data used by traders to buy and sell power and by environmental groups to track safety.
The French Nuclear Safety Authority, known as ASN, discontinued release of the figures at the end of September and [...]
EnerCom, Inc. announced today the lineup for The Eleventh Oil & Gas Conference(TM), www.theoilandgasconference.com. The Conference, held in Denver Aug. 13-17, 2006, is the largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver, showcasing more than 90 companies with a combined enterprise value of more than $300 billion. This premier forum offers institutional investors, energy research analysts, [...]
EnerCom, Inc. announced today the lineup for The Eleventh Oil & Gas Conference(TM), www.theoilandgasconference.com. The Conference, held in Denver Aug. 13-17, 2006, is the largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver, showcasing more than 90 companies with a combined enterprise value of more than $300 billion. This premier forum offers institutional investors, energy research analysts, [...]
The Bush administration yesterday defended its data mining of financial transactions in a program aimed at tracking down financing of terrorist activities. The program, Bush officials said, does not amount to invasion of privacy of Americans.
Treasury Secretary John Snow, while decrying the program’s disclosure by some newspapers, said the surveillance of banking data was “government [...]
