Griffin Group failed to sell the coal production of the company, so the company can not pay bills on corporate debt of about $ 2 billion. Western Australian government soon took over the asset sales process Griffin Group’s coal mines. Western Australian Government requested assistance agencies financial adviser Macquarie Bank and UBS to determine the steps of coal mining assets sale of Griffin Group. Read more
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U.S. stocks rose, extending gains for the third consecutive monthly benchmark indices such as oil retreated and billionaire investor Warren Buffett said he is looking for acquisitions.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ‘s Class B shares rose 1.6 percent after Buffett’s company said profit rose 43 percent to the highest since 2007. 3M Co. advanced 1.5 percent after Barron’s said the maker of Post-It Notes, a “blizzard” of new products in advance. Amazon.com Inc fell 1.9 percent after UBS AG cut its recommendation for the biggest online retailer.
The S & P 500 rose 0.4 percent to 1324.74 at 9:33 in New York. The benchmark gauge has gained 2.6 percent this month until February 1925. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 47.68 points, or 0.4 percent, to 12,178.13 today. Oil for April delivery slipped to $ 97.58, still near a two-year high. (more…)
Nairobi / Accra – At least 70 miners were confirmed dead after a trench collapsed gold mine in central Ghana, local media reported Tuesday. The victims belonged to a group of small-scale miners who were trapped in the pit in the city of rain caused Dunkwa-on-Offin to the cave on Sunday. The rescue operation was hampered by a lack of earthmoving equipment, said the reports. (more…)
Workers scored a major victory Wednesday in their battle to prevail in the week long crisis in the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear facility, but a top Japanese official warned that the fight was far from over.
At dawn, authorities with the Tokyo Electric Power Company noticed that the water is flowing into the Pacific Ocean from the turbine building of the No. 2 reactor, one of the six by the tool in its factory ..
Radiation levels in the water tested 7.5 million times the legal limit on Saturday. On Tuesday it was still 5 million times above the norm. (more…)
