commodities

Movements of commodities by entities often shrouded in mystery and secrecy drive shipping demand, which, in turn, is tied to economic activity and also

By Andy Hoffman (Bloomberg) — A rare disclosure by Gunvor Group Ltd. confirms what’s long been suspected — jobs at energy trading firms pay very

By Pratish Narayanan (Bloomberg) — China’s latest retaliation against U.S. tariffs is set to prove largely benign to commodity trade flows as

By Marcelo Teixeira and Marcy Nicholson SAO PAULO/NEW YORK, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Brazilian coffee exporters are struggling to find shipping capacity to

By Anshuman Daga and Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE, May 15 (Reuters) – Just seven years ago, Noble Group was a $11 billion-plus Asian commodity powerhouse,

  By Henning Gloystein and Denny Thomas SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, Sept 29 (Reuters) – A Japanese shipper filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday and global

London's Baltic Exchange is studying a potential foray into commodities and is open to proposals on tie-ups as other exchanges attempt to boost volumes, its

How bad is the market for shipping commodities across the world’s oceans? Consider that more than 100 vessels will probably be scrapped this year -- a record

Noble Group Ltd., Asia’s biggest commodity trader by revenue, said third-quarter profit jumped almost sevenfold as it shipped a third more

Shipping companies probably will miss out on exports from the record U.S. grain harvest because the shale-oil boom is clogging up rail lines to

Glencore Plc’s billionaire Chief Executive Officer, Ivan Glasenberg, underscored his belief in the longevity of the global commodities boom by beating his

Commodities fell to a six-month low, erasing almost all of this year’s gains, as oil and grains declined on signs of ample supplies and slower economic

By extracting a $13 million penalty and imposing tough restrictions on future oil trading by Arcadia and others, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

By Karen Rebelo and Silvia Antonioli April 14 (Reuters) – A Chinese consortium bought the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru from Glencore Xstrata for $6

April 1 (Bloomberg) — The commodities boom is over and you can have some money back. For investors in Japan’s biggest trading houses, Mitsubishi Corp.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., the largest exporter of soybean meal from Brazil, plans to double the size of its South American fleet of river barges to boost

Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Commodity supply constraints and demand from emerging markets mean it’s premature to talk about the death of the super cycle

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) — The fastest Chinese steel output on record is still too slow to meet demand from builders, reducing inventories and driving prices

Jim Rogers is seriously concerned about the impact of continual and expansive monetary policy coordinated by central banks around the globe. We have even seen

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — Near-record agricultural exports are diminishing the capacity glut in grain carriers, boosting rates for Safe Bulkers Inc. and