Business Reporter

With less money around for investment, mining companies have to look to new ways of working to expand their business Gold mining has been a part of life in the Tapajos region of northern Brazil for many decades, but modern-day miners must move with the times to stay in business. Before the credit crunch, investors [...]

Business Reporter gets mining chiefs across the globe to ’fess up to the challenges ahead THE COMMODITIES BOOM offers the chance of rapid growth – and eventually improved share prices – to mining companies, but only if they manage it properly. It’s an issue that occupies the minds of the leaders of some of the [...]

Now that more Emerging economies have the infrastructure to support global services, executives can look further for outsourcing partners India still dominates the top outsourcing destinations, followed closely by China. Indian firms such as Wipro, TCS and HCL have emerged as global giants to rival the established western players. And they have the great advantage [...]

An intimate knowledge of the financial sector is being exploited by one company to drive efficiencies and create a competitive edge The first decade of this millennium has seen the financial services outsourcing industry mature, from searching for the world’s cheapest day rate, to a cost-efficient strategy that benefits from outsourced experts while still retaining [...]

Bond funds in developing countries have enjoyed a bumper year, and with the GDP weight of emerging markets likely to catch up with so-called safe haven countries in just two years, is now the time to invest? It is true that investing in the public debt of blue-chip developing countries is no longer considered exotic [...]

There are just 17 of them and they are tough to extract, but the elements known as rare earths are essential to the manufacture of smartphones and other technologies and demand for them is soaring Rare Earth metals are getting a lot of people very excited. An alliance of three of the world’s leading business [...]