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ArcelorMittal tempers steel's recovery hopes
As the industry bellwether crimps fourth quarter results due to rising coking coal prices, fears grow others might be hurt too
 "ArcelorMittal tempers steel's recovery hopes")
Rising coal prices temper steel's recovery hope
As industry bellwether ArcelorMittal crimps fourth quarter results, fears grow other players might also be hurt
 "Rising coal prices temper steel's recovery hope")
Kunal Bose: Steel world puts China in the dock for underpriced exports
The principal subject for discussion would be a single country holding most of global surplus steel capacity and its unfairly priced steel exports
 "Kunal Bose: Steel world puts China in the dock for underpriced exports")
Kunal Bose: Ayurvedic products register fastest demand growth
The global market for ayurvedic medicines is an estimated $100 billion and this is to grow to $115 billion by 2020
Steel's woes end after five-year slump
China's focus on infrastructure spending to give a thrust to its economy fires up demand once again
 "Steel's woes end after five-year slump")
Enough value added in alumina to justify exports?
In Piyush Goyal, aluminium makers have found a mines minister with a clear vision of where he wants to see India's largest non-ferrous metal industry in the next decade & beyond
 "Enough value added in alumina to justify exports?")
Controls reason for thriving black market in urea
Good quantities of both domestic and imported urea find their way into neighbouring countries
 "Controls reason for thriving black market in urea")
Capacity consolidation will improve cost efficiency of steelmaking
To the extent that capacity has been brought under a single umbrella, the experiment has given good results in India
Supply-side restructuring the way for steel firms
The industry has outstanding bank loans of around Rs 3 lakh crore, making it one of the largest contributors to the country's NPAs
 "Supply-side restructuring the way for steel firms")
 "Prices of quality teas fall due to global oversupply")
After bitter season, sugar mills hit sweet spot
Sugar mills battling huge loans are looking at the future with optimism as prices start to rise once again amid fears of production shortfall
 "After bitter season, sugar mills hit sweet spot")
Big iron ore output will spur exploration work
JSW Steel's plan to build a 10-mt mill in Odisha includes a 280-km slurry pipeline from mines at Barbil to transfer beneficiated iron ore to Paradip for making pellets
 "Big iron ore output will spur exploration work")
Surplus capacity triggers competition among steel makers
Low steel prices, as a result of dismal global demand growth globally, were not leaving any margins for producers
 "Chinese opposition to low-priced iron ore dumping defies logic")
China faces pressure to cut steel, coal capacity
Concern over capacity surplus is finding growing resonance at all places, including Beijing, which is blamed for world steel crisis
Oil continues to oblige Jaitley with low prices
Finance Minister had jitters when crude prices came close to $53 a barrel in June rallying from 12-year lows of $27 earlier in the year
Stainless steel makers want level playing field
Increasingly, big imports of stainless steel flat products, particularly from China, have left much of the domestic industry capacity idle
Mining, farming are the answer to India's poverty: Anil Agarwal
Interview with Chairman, Vedanta Resources
 "Mining, farming are the answer to India's poverty: Anil Agarwal")
Zinc is a bullish exception among bearish metals
The current three-month LME price of zinc is up around 50% on the January level. But, it is still miles away from the lofty high of $4,580 a tonne in November 2006
 "Zinc is a bullish exception among bearish metals")
