BHP Billiton's Exposure to Samarco Tailings Disaster
Failure of a tailings dam and damage to another at the 50%- owned Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil, in joint venture with Vale, is a disaster.The...
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E&P Financial Health: Better Than You Think. Liquidity Reserves Will See Most Firms Through Downturn
The precipitous slide in oil prices since fall 2014 has eroded the financial health of most exploration and production, or E&P, firms. Natural...
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CHINA SOE REFORM: Detailed plan due in the next 3 weeks. Potential implications
There is a growing expectation that mergers involving huge state-owned conglomerates could be part of China's soon-to-be-announced reforms of...
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CHINA ECONOMY: Thoughts and implications post the rate cut
The PBOC announced on Saturday that it will cut the benchmark deposit and loan interest rates by 0.25 basis point starting March 1. We have been...
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CHINA SOE REFORM: Thoughts and implications of OIL MERGER rumours
Local press has been heavily speculating that we will get a detailed announcement of the SOE reform plan by March, where the number of central SOEs...
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