Natixis sees gold prices averaging $990 an ounce in 2016 on expectations for higher U.S. interest rates and strength in the U.S. dollar, the French bank said in a report released Friday.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Chamber of Mines, which has been negotiating on behalf of the country’s main coal producers, will sign the agreement later today.
Oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) totaled 31.2 million barrels per day (b/d) in September, down 60,000 b/d from August as Saudi Arabia further reined in supply, according to a just-released Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts.
The decline in coal share prices has affected the pensions of millions of bus drivers, librarians, park attendants, school workers, housing officers and care workers, a new study from Platform London shows.