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Xi buys time with Trump as tensions loom over North Korea threat
HONG KONG (April 10): After predicting a “very difficult” encounter with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Donald Trump emerged from their first meeting hailing “an outstanding relationship” between chiefs of the world’s biggest economies.
April 10, 2017
Commodities
The China X-factor that puts steel’s surprise comeback at risk
SHANGHAI (Feb 14): Steelmakers aren’t out of the woods yet. A year-long resurgence risks cooling as a slowdown in China’s property market deepens, exposing bullish sentiment as overblown, according to a U.S.-based hedge fund manager and former Citigr
February 14, 2017
Results
BRC Asia earnings plunge 46% in FY16
SINGAPORE (Nov 24): Prefabricated steel reinforcement specialist, BRC Asia, has reported earnings of $8.3 million for FY16, a 46% decrease from the $15.4 million earnings seen in FY15.
November 24, 2016
In print this week
This might finally be Sapphire’s time to shine
SINGAPORE (Oct 7): The patience of long-time Sapphire shareholders might have been tested with the losses suffered in the earlier years and a share price that has seen two rounds of consolidation and a drop of almost 50% in five years.
October 07, 2016
Shanghai copper tumbles to three-month low; steel prices plunge
SHANGHAI (May 13): Copper slumped to the lowest level in more than three months in Shanghai and capped a third week of losses amid concerns about demand prospects in China, the top consumer.
May 13, 2016