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UK businesses prepare Brexit wish lists as EU talks commence

  Bloomberg Businesses are bracing for Brexit by making last-ditch demands of the UK government to keep their interests in mind when Prime Minister Theresa May opens two years of talks with the European Union this week. Concerns include the risk of tariffs on exports to the EU, disruptions to supply chains and the potential loss of European workers. Bloomberg ...

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Trump expected to offer more coal reserves to miners

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump is expected to lift a moratorium on federal coal-mining leases — and it probably won’t do the industry much good until years after he’s left office. That’s because US coal companies including Peab-ody Energy Corp. won’t be looking to secure new reserves of the fossil fuel on federal land for years, especially as mining slows ...

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Barrick, Goldcorp team up as miners look to share risk

  Bloomberg Canada’s two biggest gold miners have formed a partnership to develop a gold-copper deposit in Chile as a third producer exits the project. Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. agreed to buy 25 percent of the Cerro Casale in Chile’s Maricunga mineral belt from the world’s largest gold producer, Barrick Gold Corp., reducing the latter’s stake to 50 percent. Under terms ...

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