Anglo American investors will keenly scrutinize CEO Duncan Wanblad on Thursday as he gives an update on the London-based miner's strategy, just months after fighting off a $49 billion takeover bid from bigger rival BHP Group. While Wanblad pinned his approach on getting an early start with selling Anglo's coking coal assets in Australia, which the company said has drawn huge interest, an unexpected and unwieldy fire at its Grosvenor mine at one of the mines could torpedo the well-laid plans, setting the timing back with a possible hit to the deal's valuation. "Clearly, any updates on the simplification strategy will be closely watched," said Richard Hatch, analyst at Berenberg.
A panel at the Japanese labour ministry has decided to raise the national average minimum wage by about 5% to 1,054 yen ($6.85) per hour this fiscal year, the biggest ever jump, public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday. ($1 = 153.9500 yen)
The U.S. trade deficit in goods narrowed in June as exports rebounded, but trade likely remained a drag on economic growth in the second quarter. The goods trade gap contracted 2.5% to $96.8 billion, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Wednesday. The deficit widened in the prior two months.
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