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A 100-year-old Australian coal mine returns

  BLOOMBERG Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. has ramped up output at the 100-year-old Wongawilli coking coal mine in Australia and is set to resume operations at another in Mozambique as prices more than doubled this year. The New Delhi-based company is producing about 100,000 metric tons a month at the mine in Australia’s New South Wales, which it started ...

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World’s biggest rail IPO since 1993 to seek $5 billion

  Bloomberg Japan’s government plans to privatize Kyushu Railway Co. through a share sale that may fetch about 500 billion yen ($5 billion), according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, in what would be the rail industry’s biggest initial public offering in more than two decades. The Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency, which fully owns the ...

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Juncker vows Brexit won’t kill off EU

  Strasbourg / AFP European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday issued a rallying cry for unity after Brexit, saying the EU is not in danger of splitting up but must fight back against “galloping populism”. In his annual State of the Union speech, Juncker unveiled a raft of economic and security proposals to find common ground after a year ...

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