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World’s top iron ore shipper chops its outlook to 20%

    Bloomberg The world’s biggest iron ore shipper cut its outlook for prices next year by 20 percent as the global market remains well supplied, loss-making miners are holding out and steel output in China will shrink further. Iron ore is seen at US$44.80 a metric ton next year, Australia’s Department of Industry, Innovation and Science said in a ...

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Obama says Brexit vote ‘to stick’ in blow to pro-EU holdouts

  Bloomberg President Barack Obama said he expects the U.K. will abide by the wishes of British voters and carry out plans to leave the European Union, and urged both sides to conduct the departure with minimal disruption. “We have to assume that a referendum having been passed with a lot of attention” and relatively high participation rate “is going ...

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WellCare, Centene offer to bid for Aetna Medicare assets

  Bloomberg Health insurers including WellCare Health Plans Inc. and Centene Corp. have offered to buy assets that Aetna Inc. may have to sell to gain regulatory approval for its proposed $37 billion takeover of Humana Inc., a person familiar with the matter said. WellCare and Centene have separately bid for Aetna’s Medicare Advantage policies that are up for sale, ...

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