Steel
BHP Billiton not expecting iron-ore shipments to be directly affected by Tianjin explosions
14 Aug 2015
Chinese steel exporters slash prices post devaluation as India hikes duty
13 Aug 2015
Steel mills in China’s top steel producing city, Tangshan, now exports semi-finished steel products at around $295 per tonne, less than half the price Indian steel mills
Tata Steel to continue exploring sale of European long-products business as talks with Klesch Group collapse
13 Aug 2015
PNB weighing takeover of steelmakers to recover bad loans: report
29 Jul 2015
PNB is awaiting government nod to take control of some of these steel companies and sell them to recover its loans
Posco suspends $12-bn Odisha project, may scrap it
17 Jul 2015
A decade after South Korean steelmaker Posco agreed to set up a 12-million tonne steel plant in Odisha, the company has announced a suspension of the project amidst indications that it may scrap the project altogether
Tata Steel axes 720 jobs in UK
17 Jul 2015
Tata Steel has blamed “cripplingly high electricity costs” in the UK, which are more than double those of key European competitors for the job cuts
UK unions call off strike at Tata Steel, agree on new pension offer
20 Jun 2015
The call by the unions could avert the first major steel strike planned in the UK in more than 30 years
ArcelorMittal, SAIL in automotive steel JV pact
23 May 2015
With India’s automobile production set to double from 3.5 million units currently to over 7 million units by 2020, The JV with SAIL is a strategic investment for ArcelorMittal, and a modernization effort for SAIL
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation