Sirius shareholders left hoping all the digging won't be down to them | Nils Pratley

The mining concern seems to be blaming US-China tensions for pulling its $500m junk bond offerWhat a useful phrase, “current market conditions”. It can be deployed in almost any situation with no need to join the dots between, say, latest tensions in the US-China trade war and an attempt to raise $500m to help construct an enormous fertiliser mine under the North York Moors.Sirius Minerals, hard at work already near Whitby, rolled out the magic words as it pulled its junk bond offer