Xstrata says shareholders will vote on September 7 on the miner’s planned $26-billion takeover by Glencore.

Governments must steer clear of the "blind alleys" of nationalisation and excessive tax, Anglo American’s Cynthia Carroll said on Thursday.

The United States and other countries must not demonise sovereign wealth funds as they come to the aid of troubled United States banks, some of the world’s biggest state-run…