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Market Pulse
26 Nov
noticias
Thursday newspaper round-up: BHP Billiton, HS2, Lloyds

Mud from a dam that burst at an iron ore mine in Brazil earlier this month, killing 12 people and polluting an important river, is toxic, the United Nations’ human rights agency has said. The statement contradicts claims by Samarco, the mine operator at the site of the rupture, that the water and mineral waste contained by the dam are not toxic. Citing “new evidence”, the UN’s office of the high commissioner for human rights said in a statement the residue “contained high levels of toxic heavy metals and other toxic chemicals”.

26 Nov
London, city, DL
London pre-open: Stocks called higher in quiet trading as US celebrates Thanksgiving

London stocks are called to open in the black on Thursday in what is likely to be a fairly quiet day’s trade given the Thanksgiving holiday in the US and the absence of any market-moving UK data.