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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Australia's economy may have suffered its biggest economic contraction in 20 years in the first qua » http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303745304576356570693196658.html
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Coal producers in Indonesia and Australia are racing to ramp up output to capture Asia's booming de » http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/31/businesspro-us-indonesia-coal-idUSTRE74U30N20110531
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Shares in Orbite VSPA Inc. surged as much as 18.4% in morning trading after the Quebec junior miner » http://business.financialpost.com/2011/05/25/orbite-shares-surge-after-aluminum-production/
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Eskom Holdings Ltd., which supplies about 95 percent of South Africa’s electricity, said it interru » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/eskom-interrupted-bhp-billiton-aluminum-smelter-power-this-month.html
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Riding on higher realization from metal sales, the net profit of National Aluminum Company (NALCO) » http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/nalco-profit-rises-31higher-margins/437209/
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Operators of the dozen new simple refineries have increased the capacities of most of them since th » http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=100219
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Marathon Oil Corp. said on Wednesday that its board has approved the spinoff of its refining busine » http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9NEOM5O0.htm
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Gasoline rose a fifth consecutive day on speculation that refinery outages in the Midwest will redu » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/gasoline-gains-on-refinery-outages-speculation-demand-will-rise.html
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac says sales of homes in some stage of foreclosure are a continui » http://www.9and10news.com/Category/Story/?id=292194&cID=3
Thursday, May 26, 2011 In the first quarter, the U.S. economy expanded at the same 1.8% clip that was initially forecast, » http://www.marketwatch.com/story/first-quarter-gdp-growth-remains-at-18-2011-05-26
Thursday, May 26, 2011 The Bank of England should raise interest rates before the end of the year or risk letting inflatio » http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/interestrates/8536690/Bank-of-England-must-raise-interest-rates-by-year-end-O...
Thursday, May 26, 2011 The shipping sector's recovery remains fragile, however, as surging fuel prices, a fluctuating frei » http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/shipping-stocks-struggle-for-direction-nasdaq-drys-1518090.htm
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) took down the coker unit at its 142,000 barrel-a-day Corpus Christi, Texa » http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110525-709805.html
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Valero Energy Corp. is conducting unplanned maintenance on a gasoil treating unit and planned work » http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/05/25/bloomberg1376-LLR2YX6S972M01-10KU82PIL663JSQ6RC89VTAJ69.DTL#ix...
Thursday, May 26, 2011 U.K. coal inventories held by power companies fell in March to the lowest in almost three years aft » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/u-k-coal-inventories-fell-in-march-to-almost-three-year-low-1-.html
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Historic flooding has limited the amount of freight moving along the Mississippi. The river and its » http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_23/b4231012667675.htm
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Exploration Orbite (TSXV: ORT.A) is pleased to announce that it has produced its first samples of a » http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/27485--orbite-produces-its-first-aluminum-from-cap-chat-alumina
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Shares in Orbite VSPA Inc. surged as much as 18.4% in morning trading after the Quebec junior miner » http://business.financialpost.com/2011/05/25/orbite-shares-surge-after-aluminum-production/
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 The U.S. coal industry faces a great opportunity with rising global demand, but onerous federal reg » http://www2.tricities.com/news/2011/may/24/rising-demand-increased-regulations-coal-industry-ar-1059533/
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Rain CII Carbon (Vizag) Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rain Commodities Ltd has voluntarily conv » http://www.equitybulls.com/admin/news2006/news_det.asp?id=92419
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Reuters reported that global aluminum output surged to a fresh all time high of 118,800 tonnes per » http://www.steelguru.com/metals_news/Surging_aluminum_output_bad_news_for_consumers/206821.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Bloomberg reported that coal export prices at Richards Bay, South Africa, site of the continent’s b » http://www.steelguru.com/raw_material_news/South_African_steam_coal_prices_fall_last_week/206843.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 According to Customs data, China’s coal imports for the first four months of this year fell 24.1% Y » http://www.steelguru.com/raw_material_news/High_prices_push_down_China_coal_exports/206849.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Rail lines carrying coal from European ports to German ports are running at full capacity as low ri » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-25/coal-railways-to-german-plants-at-full-capacity-steelguru-says.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Steam coal prices in China climbed again to the highest level in more than two years on Friday, as » http://www.chinamining.org/News/2011-05-23/1306113110d45673.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Steelmakers in Brazil produced 2.9 million metric tons of crude steel in April, an increase of 10.4 » http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/05/24/brazil-crude-steel-output-rose-104-april-imports-fell-iabr/#ixzz1NNHndu6G
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Steel Production in U.S recorded high growth rates in 2011. The United States have produced an est » http://online.wsj.com/community/groups/oil-921/topics/steel-production-us-recorded-high
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Steel inventories may be rising in China, the world’s biggest producer of the metal, as economic gr » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/china-steel-stocks-may-be-rising-steel-market-intelligence-says.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Valero Energy Corp. reported a hydrocarbon emission over the weekend at its St. Charles refinery in » http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2011/05/23/valero-reports-pollution-leak-from.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Venezuela's largest refinery complex restored operations after an electrical failure earlier this m » http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110524-716587.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Exxon Mobil Corp's 504,500 barrel per day (bpd) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery reopened part of i » http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/25/refinery-operations-exxon-batonrouge-idUSWEN360720110525
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Asian stocks fell, with the region’s benchmark index sinking for the third day in four, as lower pr » http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-25/asian-stocks-drop-as-earnings-forecasts-fuel-recovery-concern.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 The Federal Reserve should begin to hike interest rates in coming months, the Organization for Econ » http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/25/us-usa-economy-oecd-idUSTRE74O1YW20110525
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 The UK economy stagnated between last autumn and the end of March, according to revised growth figu » http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1502f888-86ae-11e0-9d41-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1NN7O1DeB
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 BP Plc was restarting a crude distillation unit, coking unit and reformer at the 225,000 barrel per » http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN2410145420110525
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