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Miners face funding squeeze as green investing surges

By Helen Reid and Tanisha Heiberg CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – As global investors shift away from heavy industry in favor of cleaner sectors, mining companies are losing billions in financing, raising the cost of capital and jeopardizing projects. Making the mining industry more sustainable by running mines on renewable energy, for example, will be a […]

UK productivity shows small gain in third quarter after grim run – ONS

LONDON (Reuters) – Productivity in Britain, a major vulnerability of the country’s economy that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to fix, improved only slightly in the July-September period of last year, according to official data published on Wednesday. After contracting in the previous four quarters, output per hour worked rose by 0.1% in the […]

Emirates’ long-serving boss to hand over the controls next year

By Alexander Cornwell and Tim Hepher DUBAI/PARIS (Reuters) – Tim Clark will retire as the president of Emirates Airline [EMIRA.UL] at the end of June 2020 after more than three decades at the state-controlled business that has helped to transform Dubai into one of the world’s major travel crossroads. Emirates Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed […]