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China moves closer to coming off U.S. currency watch list
By Shawn Donnan
Financial Times, London
Friday, October 15, 2016
The Obama administration has taken a step toward dropping China from a U.S. currency manipulation watchlist even as Republican candidate Donald Trump promises to declare Beijing a manipulator on Day 1 of his presidency.
Mr. Trump has accused China repeatedly of currency manipulation and using the policy to suck jobs out of the United States. He has vowed to impose punitive tariffs on its imports into the U.S. in a move economists fear could set off a trade war between the world's two biggest economies.
But the U.S. Treasury said today that by its reckoning China now met just one of the three criteria for inclusion on a currency watch list after its current account surplus fell below 3 percent of gross domestic product in the year to June. Under Treasury's current guidelines that means that, if nothing changes, Beijing could fall off the watch list as soon as next year.
For their twice-yearly foreign exchange report to Congress Treasury officials also monitor a country's trade balance with the US as well as any "persistent one-sided intervention" in currency markets. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.ft.com/content/9bb2e3ee-9246-11e6-a72e-b428cb934b78
K92 Mining Begins Gold Production at Kainantu Mine
Company Announcement
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
K92 Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that gold production has commenced from the Irumafimpa gold deposit.
Ian Stalker, K92 Chief Executive Officer, says: "This milestone is highly significant for our company, and for this region of Papua New Guinea. A great deal of thanks goes to the entire team on site in PNG in achieving production ahead of schedule and on budget. The rehabilitation of the Irumafimpa gold mine, process plant, and associated infrastructure commenced in late March and is now complete. As an enhancement of the processing facility, we are also pleased to note that the installation of a new drum scrubber is also nearing completion and commissioning of this will be completed by the end of the month. ..."
...For the remainder of the announcement:
http://www.k92mining.com/2016/10/6077/
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