The foreign investor captured 37 per cent of the 27 votes cast in the annual poll of the country's newsrooms by The Canadian Press. It's the first time since the survey began in 2003 that the business newsmaker of the year wasn't a specific person.
Gold investors will have to wait until the very end of 2016 and into 2017 for Chinese jewelry demand to improve materially, RBC Capital Markets said in a new report.
Less than a year after the coal industry was declared to be in terminal decline, the fossil fuel has staged its steepest price rally in over half a decade, making it one of the hottest major commodities.
Accounting firm PwC found the globe's 40 biggest miners made a collective loss of $US27 billion ($37 billion) in 2015, the first loss across the entire industry, hit by China's slowing economy and a 25 per cent fall in commodity prices last year.
