Golden Gate Capital (GGC), a San Francisco-based private equity firm, announced the closing of its acquisition of U.S. Silica Company (USS), the second largest U.S. miner and processor of industrial sand.
U.S. Silica, tracing its origins back to 1900, operates 13 industrial sand and other mineral mines and processing plants in the Midwest and Eastern US. [...]

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation announced the pricing of its previously announced offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All of the shares offered will be sold at a price to the public of $64.00 per share. Net proceeds from the offering, estimated at $183.9 [...]

AUSTRALIAN iron ore producers, arguing for a freight premium to be included in this year’s contract prices with reluctant Chinese steelmakers, are expected to shrug off the emergence of a new iron ore exchange market created by Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse.
The exchange gives smaller Chinese steel producers a chance to hedge their costs in [...]

Refining stocks rose as investors took a fresh look at the sector after a Deutsche Bank analyst raised his rating on Holly Corp. and Tesoro Corp.
Analyst Paul Sankey hiked his ratings on Holly and Tesoro to “Hold” from “Sell.” He upgraded the stocks because they were relatively cheap, not because of any major change by [...]

Crude oil pipeline operator Enbridge Inc. plans to sell its minority stake in a Spanish petroleum products pipeline company for about $1.37 billion in cash.
The buyers of the 25 percent stake in Cia. Logistica de Hidrocarburos SA are subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank AG, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Stichting Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn and [...]

You could say Deutsche Bank analyst Mike Urban was swimming against the tide, after he downgraded several offshore drillers and said investors may be too focused on deepwater rigs and ignoring the risks in the shallow-water rigs those companies also operate.
Urban changed his ratings on Ensco International and Transocean to “Sell” from “Hold” and also [...]

Shares of most aluminum producers rose Monday as prices for the commodity rose, offsetting a warning from a Deutsche Bank analyst.
FBR Capital Markets analyst Amir Arif said in a client note that he is “most concerned about (Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Inc.), not so much on the expected first quarter 2008 results, but on second quarter 2008 [...]

Asia faces the threat of higher inflation, slower growth and tougher times for exporters after oil prices hit new highs and the dollar plunged last week.
Farmers, miners and oil companies could benefit from high commodity prices. But most of Asia is dependent on imported energy and raw materials, and even some oil-exporting countries such as [...]

Takeover target Challenger Infrastructure Fund (CIF) will book a profit of about $26 million from the sale of its interest in Britain’s Northern Gas Networks Ltd (NGN) to RREEF Alternative Investments.
RREEF Alternative Investments, the global alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank, bought CIF’s 5.8 per cent stake in NGN for STG 48.8 million ($A105.1 [...]

The Australian reported that BHP Billiton is in talks to take up a 25% stake in a A$615million (US$733million) bauxite mine and alumina refinery in India`s eastern Orissa province. The deal would be BHP Billiton`s first project in India.
It also reported that Zinifex Ltd and its Belgian partner Umicore Group are believed to have appointed [...]