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New Gold to Discuss 2015 Second Quarter Financial Results on Wednesday, July 29, 2015

[PR Newswire] – TORONTO, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – New Gold Inc. (“New Gold”) (NGD) (NYSE MKT:NGD) plans to release its second quarter 2015 financial results after market close on Tuesday, July 28, 2015. You may also listen to the conference call by calling toll free 1-888-231-8191, or 1-647-427-7450 outside of the U.S. and Canada. A recorded playback of the conference call will be available until August 31, 2015 by

Nigeria's Oando to sell 60 pct of downstream business for $276 mln

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Oando has agreed to sell a 60 percent stake in its downstream business to a consortium of investors including Vitol for $276 million, the energy company said on Tuesday. Oando, which is transitioning from being a marketer of refined petroleum products into an oil and gas explorer, completed the acquisition of ConocoPhillips’s upstream oil and gas business in Nigeria last year.

Supreme Court's EPA ruling focuses on what’s ‘appropriate and necessary’

The Environmental Protection Agency must take cost into account when determining whether to regulate toxic air pollutants emitted from power plants, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In a 5-to-4 decision, the high court said the agency improperly streamlined the regulation process required under the Clean Air Act when it decided to consider only public health hazards in making the initial decision to restrict power plant emissions. EPA’s rule

NBC fires Trump, drops pageants over candidate's insults to Mexicans

(Reuters) – NBC cut ties with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and the “Miss USA” and “Miss Universe” pageants on Monday after the real estate developer and TV personality made comments insulting Mexicans earlier this month. The pageants, part of a 50/50 joint venture with NBCUniversal for the English-language broadcasts that together have in the past year attracted 13 million viewers, would no longer air on NBC “due to the