The exploration expenditures of mining company Fresnillo plc increased at a year-on-year rate of 27.6% in 1H2022 to $77.7 million. The rise is in line with the company‘s budget for this year and its strategy to focus exploration on specific targets, mainly in the Fresnillo and San Julián
The cases of the loggerhead sea turtle, right whale and vaquita are being processed in the framework of the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (USMCA). In June 2022, a group of Mexican NGOs filed a public brief with the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental
Recent U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts call for U.S. corn acreage to be planted in the 2022-2023 planting season to be about 90 million acres, down slightly from the 2021-2022 estimate of 93.4 million acres. However, that level is still a very healthy level to support strong fertilizer
Heavy truck production in North America would stagnate in 2022 compared to 2021, according to forecasts from Dana Incorporated, an automotive company with 40,200 employees. North American medium truck production experienced a 20% year-over-year decline between 2019 and 2020, primarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Then, during 2021,
According to BBVA Research, US interest rates are likely to be around 4.0% in early 2023. Central banks have reacted, paving the way for an aggressive tightening of monetary conditions. Specifically, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has raised benchmark interest rates by 150 basis points (bps) since the
Globally, oil demand is expected to increase in the medium term, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasting growth of 1.7 million barrels per day (or mb/d) in 2022 and another 2.1 mb/d in 2023, despite high oil prices and concerns about the health of the global economy.