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• What Happens Now After Chinese Approvals?

  By Mike Thiessen - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: GLCNF, RIO, XSRAY.PK

  After a rather long back-and-forth with Chinese regulatory authorities, Swiss commodities conglomerate Glencore (NASDAQOTH: GLCNF) has finally received the country's blessing to consummate its planned merger with Swiss mining company Xstrata (NASDAQOTH: XSRAY.PK). Valued at $30 billion, the deal is one of the sector's largest-ever tie-ups and promises to reorder the way in which several key commodities are mined and sold in the Asia-Pacific region. Based on Glencore more »

• Thermal Coal Glut Sinks Mining Companies

  By Tony Daltorio - June 27, 2012 | Tickers: ANR, AAUKY.PK, ACI, BTU, XSRAY.PK

  The shale gas boom currently underway in the United States has had vastly different effects. Take the petrochemicals industry, for example. Here cheap and plentiful shale gas and shale liquids such as ethane have had extremely positive effects, turning the US into the second lowest cost region on the globe for production, trailing only the Middle East. As detailed in a previous article, this is actually leading petrochemical companies to more »