The S&P/ASX 200 index edged up 0.1 per cent to 6,148.4 at the close of trade, its highest since March 6.

Commenting on the new appointment, Vedanta Ltd chairman, Navin Agarwal said: "We extend a warm welcome to Sunil Duggal who has been a matur...

US gold futures were unchanged at $1,285.70 an ounce.

Spot gold was down about 0.2 per cent at $1,299.15 per ounce by 0113 GMT.

US gold futures dipped 0.2 percent to $1,342.6 an ounce.

Ebitda margin stood at 29 per cent in Q3, up from 26 per cent in September quarter.

New CEO Venkat will be put to test at Tuticorin, where his only advantage would be his fluency in Tamil.

Venkatakrishnan, 53, worked as the CEO of Johannesburg-based AngloGold for five years and spent much of his career working in Africa.

The dollar was boosted by data that showed US consumer spending increased in July.

US gold futures were also mostly steady at $1,211.82 an ounce on Wednesday.

The CEO-elect, who is due to join in August, is caught between a rock and a hard place as he faces agitating locals in Tuticorin and anxiou...

Venkatakrishnan, or Venkat as he is known, is currently the CEO of Johannesburg-based AngloGold Ashanti Ltd, the world's largest emerging m...

Gold jumped to a seven-week high on Monday bolstered by a weaker dollar and expectations the Federal Reserve will not hike US interest rate...

Indian-origin Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan was today appointed as the new chief executive of South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti.

The 10 biggest gold companies led by Barrick Gold spent more than $100 billion in the past 20 years buying new mines and projects around th...

India must step up its engagement with the African nations to develop a meaningful partnership and look beyond it as a region to source min...

Hopes were fading on Wednesday for five miners in South Africa who were trapped thousands of metres below the surface at one of the world's...