Moody’s puts Vedanta on downgrade watch after deal which perplexed analysts February 4, 2019 Ratings agency Moody’s has lowered its outlook for Vedanta Resources, after a subsidiary paid $200m (£153m) for a stake in Anglo American. Shares plunged by nearly 18 per cent on Friday to 162.15 rupees after Vedanta announced the move, their lowest since 2016. Read more: Investors reduce Anglo American short stakes as company looks up The [...]
Anglo American to restart operations at Minas-Rio mine after fixing leaky pipeline December 21, 2018 Mining company Anglo American has announced that it will resume operations at its Minas-Rio iron ore mine in Brazil after fixing a leaky pipeline that has brought production to a halt. The FTSE 100 company said that it expects to report an underlying loss of $320m (£252.6m) as a result of the interruption, which lies at the lower [...]
Investors reduce Anglo American short stakes as company looks up December 13, 2018 Investors are offloading their short positions in the FTSE’s most bet-against mining stock as Anglo American starts looking up. Earlier this week the miner said it was expecting production to increase about two per cent more than previously forecast, as production of copper and diamonds increased. Costs will also be five per cent below what [...]
FTSE round up: Index drops on oil and mining share sell-off following fears of oversupply November 23, 2018 The FTSE 100 closed 0.14 per cent down this week after falling to 6,950.82, driven by a sell off in oil and mining shares. The biggest faller was silver and gold miner Fresnillo which saw a 6.98 per cent decrease to 746.4p as the company continued to feel the effects of being downgraded by Morgan Stanley [...]
Chinese shock leaves the FTSE 100 nursing losses after renminbi devaluation August 12, 2015 The FTSE 100 fell by 72 points yesterday as luxury goods and mining firms suffered from China’s unexpected devaluation of the renminbi. The Chinese devaluation, news of which broke after the FTSE closed on Monday night, saw Burberry shares open 12p down on the previous day at 1,595p, before falling throughout the day to [...]
Anglo American lowers the bar for chief executive Mark Cutifani July 19, 2015 Mining group Anglo American has lowered the bar at which chief executive Mark Cutifani reaches his performance targets, a controversial move as shares in the company this month fell to a 12-year low. Cutifani, who was paid £3.7m last year, makes around half of his yearly take-home pay through a long-term incentive plan (LTIP) based [...]
Anglo American share price falls as it books up to $4bn in writedowns in first half July 16, 2015 Shares in miner Anglo American were tarnished this morning after it said it expects to book $3bn-$4bn in writedowns in the first half of this year, due to its iron ore operation in Brazil and some Australian coal assets. The FTSE 100-listed company, due to report its first half results next week, attributed the impairments to [...]
Glencore share price falls as FTSE miners feel the heat from commodities selloff July 7, 2015 London-listed miners felt the heat today after the outlook for the Chinese economy darkened amid ongoing equity market turmoil. Earlier in the day copper prices fell 5.9 per cent to a six-year low of $2.389 a pound on concern about economic growth in China, the world's top metals consumer. It comes a day after Chinese brokerages [...]
Anglo American share price rises despite missing analysts’ targets in first quarter April 23, 2015 Shares in mining group Anglo American were up by 4.73 per cent yesterday, despite the company’s failure to meet analysts’ expectations in its production update for the three months to 31 March. Copper production fell by 17 per cent in the first quarter of 2015, down to 171,800 tonnes from 202,000 tonnes in the same [...]
Anglo American’s losses jump 161 per cent after $3.9bn asset writedown February 13, 2015 The figures The commodities slump has crushed Anglo American: the miner posted figures today showing it took $3.9bn (£2.5bn) in impairment charges in 2014 after it was forced to dramatically cut the prices of its assets. The pain didn't stop there. With iron ore prices having halved in 2014 it was always going to be [...]