By Pratish Narayanan (Bloomberg) — China’s latest retaliation against U.S. tariffs is set to prove largely benign to commodity trade flows as Beijing runs out of raw materials to target. Some products...

By Marcelo Teixeira and Marcy Nicholson SAO PAULO/NEW YORK, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Brazilian coffee exporters are struggling to find shipping capacity to transport a bumper crop from the world’s...

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

  By Henning Gloystein and Denny Thomas SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, Sept 29 (Reuters) – A Japanese shipper filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday and global trading firm Louis Dreyfus posted lower profits,...

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 chief executive said.

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 -- and daily earnings for the industry will still tumble.

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

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 ports.

Glencore Plc’s billionaire Chief Executive Officer, Ivan Glasenberg, underscored his belief in the longevity of the global commodities boom by beating his biggest rivals in handing out surplus cash to investors.

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 growth in China, the biggest consumer of industrial metals and energy.

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 (CFTC) this week sent a powerful signal that laws against market manipulation still have teeth.

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 billion, the high end...

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. and Mitsui & Co., the...

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 shipments of crops from a new port.

Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) — Commodity supply constraints and demand from emerging markets mean it’s premature to talk about the death of the super cycle that brought a longer-than-average period of...

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

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 the Chinese central bank conduct...

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

By Keith Wallis SINGAPORE, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Soaring imports of wheat by China and Pakistan are set to drive up freight rates for smaller dry bulk cargo ships in...

If Jim Chanos is correct in his assessment of Caterpillar and the commodity supercycle, particularly the mining business, the implications for dry bulk shipping are decidedly negative. Caterpillar, through its mining, road...