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Fidelity Joins Price War With Zero Commissions on Online Trades

(Bloomberg) — Fidelity Investments is crashing the free-trading party, challenging rivals in a gambit to lure assets by ending commissions.The firm will offer not only zero commissions for online buying and selling of U.S. stocks, exchange-traded funds and options, but also provide higher yields for cash balances and better trade execution, according to an announcement Thursday.The move is the latest leg in the price-chopping frenzy engulfing retail brokerages. Fidelity is the fifth major industry player since last month to roll out some form of zero-commission online stock and ETF trading as companies duel to win investors gravitating toward the cheapest …read more […]

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Apple removes police-tracking app used in Hong Kong protests from its app store

Apple Inc on Wednesday removed an app that protestors in Hong Kong have used to track police movements, saying the app violated its rules because it was used to ambush police and by criminals who used it to victimize residents in areas with no law enforcement. Apple rejected the crowdsourcing app, HKmap.live, earlier this month but then reversed course last week, allowing the app to appear on its App Store. The approval drew a sharply worded commentary from the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, the People’s Daily, on Tuesday with Apple criticized for allowing a “poisonous” app. …read more […]

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China's MMG says protests to affect Las Bambas copper operations

Operations at Las Bambas, one of Peru’s largest copper minefield, will be affected by road disruption with supplies being blocked amid anti-mining protests, Chinese miner MMG Ltd said on Thursday. Access to our Las Bambas mine has been disrupted due to roadblocks and logistics have been interrupted since Sept. 22, MMG said, as protests blocked supplies from reaching their operations. Residents of Peru’s southern copper belt have occupied roads and a minerals railroad to protest a construction licence the government gave to Southern Copper Corp for its $1.4 billion Tia Maria project, which has been delayed for nearly …read more […]