12h44 South African platinum producers made a new wage offer on Thursday in a bid to end a three-month strike at their mines that has hit 40 percent of global output of the industrial metal.
12h04 Gold was heading for a 1.8
percent weekly fall on Friday, dented by hopes that diplomatic
efforts can calm violence in Ukraine and by strengthening U.S.
economic data.
14h13 Natural rough diamond prices may rise 5 to 10 percent in 2014 on recovering demand for jewellery in developed and emerging markets, the head of Belgium's diamond lobby told Reuters in an interview.
12h43 Russian telecoms operator Vimpelcom said it sold 51 percent of its Algerian affiliate to the country's government, resolving an ownership dispute in a transaction that allows it to retain control of the business.
14h53 Volkswagen's
luxury division Audi plans to sell about half a million cars
this year in China, the world's biggest auto market, and raise
the number of its Chinese dealers to 500 by 2017.
01h19 Earnings season shifts into
high gear next week, and with nearly one-third of S&P 500 names
set to post results, investors hope the news provides a catalyst
to buy stocks and leave the market's recent weakness in the
dust.
14h49 The vice-principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of pupils on a ferry that capsized has committed suicide, police said on Friday, as hopes faded of finding any of the 268 missing alive.
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