Posts tagged 'cement'

It was the cement’s fault

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Sep 08 2010 12:45 | Comment |

BP has published its internal investigation report into the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico on 20 April 2010.

The conclusion? Read more

Just a regular cement deal on Aim?

| Nov 30 2009 17:10 | Comment |

Aim, London’s junior market, just never disappoints when it comes to weird and wonderful corporate stories.

The latest concerns Prosperity Minerals, which owns an iron ore trading operation in China and stakes in several Chinese cement businesses. Read more

China will crush overcapacity!

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Oct 01 2009 09:54 | Comment |

Here’s how FT Alphaville celebrates 60 years of Chinese Communist Party rule — with a bit more detail on the State Council of China’s mandate to curb industrial overcapacity, as announced on Tuesday.

From Exane BNP Paribas analysts Su Zhang and Arnaud Pinatel: Read more

Chart of the Day, cement edition

| Jun 17 2008 19:18 | Comment |

Annual production of cement by country in billions of metric tonsVia The Oil Drum, here’s a “Pretty Stunning Graph of World Cement Production”.

As the Drum’s “Professor Goose” – aka Kyle Saunders, associate professor of political science at Colorado State University – notes: Read more