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Environmental Markets & Commodities Reports > Cellulosic Ethanol heads for cost competitiveness
London, 13 March 2013
Ethanol manufactured from non-food “cellulosic” feedstock is on course to be cost competitive with corn-based ethanol by 2016, according to an industry survey conducted by research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Harry Boyle, lead biofuel analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said: “The cellulosic ethanol industry has something of a history of over-promising cost reductions and under-delivering. However, it may be dangerous to assume that it will not become competitive this decade. If our survey proves accurate, cellulosic ethanol will make meaningful inroads into the vehicle fuel market during the last years of this decade.”
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Metals & Mining Commodity Reports > Mega metal deals grind down in 2013
London, 11 March 2013
All eyes in the metal industry will be on the lookout for a silver lining in the uncertain economic horizon this year as a PwC report out today predicts. Mega deals will dwindle against a surge in smaller announcements according to Forging Ahead, with CEOs holding onto their purse strings. In PwC’s annual in-depth metals M&A review and forecast, the headline trend is for a continuing recovery from a post credit-crunch low with Asia being the ‘star’ region dominating the 2012 deals market. It accounted for 68% of totals deals value, more than three times the 19% share it held in 2011.
Agriculture & Softs Reports > China oilseed processing report
Boston, March 2013
The just-released, in-depth report entitled Bringing Transparency to the Chinese Oilseed Processing Sector is now available for sale through Global AgInvesting Research & Insight (www.globalaginvesting.com/ResearchInsights/detail?contentid=2517).
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Fossil Fuel Still Fastest Growing Energy Source
Houston, 5 March 2013
The biggest energy challenge facing the world today is meeting the rapidly growing energy needs of emerging market nations, including the 1.3 billion people that have little or no access to modern energy, according to the World Economic Forum's Energy Vision 2013 – Energy Transitions: Past and Future report launched today at the IHS CERAWeek Conference.
Metals & Mining Commodity Reports > Junior mining companies face working capital shortfall
London, 4 March 2013
A new report released today by business and financial advisers Grant Thornton has found that junior mining companies are facing a significant shortfall in working capital, posing a major concern to future growth prospects. The report, Turning high risk into high potential, found that 43% of mining companies surveyed around the world maintained cash balances of less than US$2 million and within the junior mining community, this figure rose to over half (53%).
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Metals & Mining Commodity Reports > Worldwide Exploration Trends 2013
London, 3 March 2013
SNL Metals Economics Group’s (SNL MEG) 23rd edition of Corporate Exploration Strategies (CES) calculated that the industry’s estimated total budget for nonferrous metals exploration increased to $21.5 billion in 2012. Despite ongoing uncertainty in Europe and the United States, and concerns about waning demand in China, most metals prices remained well above their long-term averages in 2012, giving varying levels of support to the industry. Led by higher budgets among the major producers, exploration budgets documented in the study increased by $3.3 billion (19%) to $20.53 billion to set a new all-time high.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Saving energy: bringing down Europe’s energy prices
London, March 2013
The EU could make net savings of €250 billion per year by 2030 if it reduces energy use 35% below 2005 levels, says a new report commissioned by environmental pressure groups. The report, Saving Energy, says that the EU will save a further €200 billion annually, if it meets a voluntary 2020 target of using 20% less energy than projected in 2005.
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Metals & Mining Commodity Reports > Survey of Mining Companies: 2012/2013
London, 1 March 2013
Finland ranked as #1 for global mining investment: 742 mineral exploration and development companies surveyed by Vancouver’s Fraser Institute say Indonesia is the worst place to do business out of 96 global jurisdictions. Worldwide, the top 10 mining destinations are Finland, Sweden, Alberta, New Brunswick, Wyoming, Ireland, Nevada, Yukon, Utah, and Norway. Eight of the same jurisdictions ranked among the top 10 last year; newcomers include Utah (which jumped to ninth from 21st) and Norway (which climbed to 10th from 24th), replacing Saskatchewan and Quebec.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Regulatory risk, weak wholesale prices as greatest challenges ahead
London, 28 February 2013
Platts Survey: More than 100 power utility companies and consultancies in Europe identified regulatory risk and weak wholesale power prices as the greatest challenges facing the industry, according to a recent survey conducted by Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemical and metals information provider. Insufficient network development and fuel price risk were also noted as need-to-resolve challenges to the electric utility companies, many of which will attend the fourth annual Platts European Power Generation Conference in Dusseldorf, Germany on April 22-23.
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Technology & Commodity Reports > 2013 Cost of Compliance Survey report
London, February 2013
Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance surveyed more than 800 compliance practitioners, including a significant number of heads of compliance and chief executives, from financial services firms around the world between November 2012 and January 2013, to canvass their views on the costs of compliance and the greatest challenges they expected to face during the year ahead. This is essential reading to understand how everyone will tackle the response to the increasing volumes of regulatory material being published every day.
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