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China's holdings of Treasuries dropped in 2016 by most on record
By Sarah McGregor and Andrea Wong
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries declined by the most on record last year, as the world's second-largest economy dipped into its foreign-exchange reserves to buttress the yuan. Japan, America's largest foreign creditor, trimmed its holdings for a second straight year.
A monthly Treasury Department report released in Washington today showed China held $1.06 trillion in U.S. government bonds, notes, and bills in December, up $9.1 billion from November but down $188 billion from a year earlier. It was the first monthly increase since May.
The People's Bank of China, owner of the world's biggest foreign-exchange reserves, has burned through a quarter of its war chest since 2014 in an effort to underpin the yuan and deter capital from fleeing the country. Chinese sales have made borrowing more costly for the U.S. government: 10-year yields rose to 2.6 percent last year, from as low as 1.3 percent. ...
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-15/china-s-holdings-of-t...
K92 Mining Drills Multiple High-Grade Gold Intersections
Company Announcement
Friday, January 27, 2017
K92 Mining Inc. (TSXV–KNT) announces the latest results from the ongoing grade control drilling program at its high-grade Kainantu Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea. K92 is ramping up the Kainantu gold mine toward commercial production, with its longest continuous production run to date now commenced.
In September 2016 K92 began a campaign of close-spaced underground diamond drilling as part of a comprehensive grade-control strategy. The current grade-control drilling program is focused on the areas of Irumafimpa and is designed to bring a high degree of confidence to the production planning and scheduling. K92 plans to mine this area in the coming six months. The closed-space drilling pattern of approximately 15 metres by 15 meters has significantly increased the confidence in this sparsely drilled area, with most holes recording high-grade intersections. Approximately 80 percent of the holes completed to date have recorded multiple high-grade intersections indicating the presence of multiple parallel to sub parallel high-grade veins. ...
... For the remainder of the announcement:
http://www.k92mining.com/2017/01/k92-drills-multiple-high-grade-gold-int...
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