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London copper fell on Wednesday after data from top consumer China underlying its economic weakness exacerbated demand concerns, with a firm U.S. dollar also hurting the metal.

Marine biofuel demand at the world's largest bunker hub Singapore could potentially double by 2025 to almost 1 million metric tons from 2023 levels as shippers seek to cut emissions, a senior TotalEnergies executive said.

China has a strategy to help Pacific Island nations with policing, not defence, and its growing presence in the region should not alarm Australia, China's ambassador to Australia said on Wednesday.

China's once-soaring soybean demand will slow by about a fifth in the first quarter from a year earlier after record slaughter shrank pig herds, pressuring prices ahead of an expected glut of South American beans, analysts and traders said.

Malaysian palm oil futures opened lower on Wednesday, as a slump in crude oil prices weighed on investor sentiment, although a weaker ringgit lent some support to the market.

China's primary aluminium output climbed to a record in 2023 but the growth rate slowed, data showed on Wednesday, amid weather-related production curbs at smelters in the country's southwest.

China produced a record 57.94 million metric tons of pork in 2023, official data showed on Wednesday, after farmers ramped up slaughter in the last quarter to cut losses amid an oversupply of pigs and an outbreak of African swine fever.

London copper dipped on Wednesday, weighed down by pressure from a stronger dollar, while caution prevailed ahead of key economic data releases by top metal consumer China.

Chicago soybean futures inched higher on Wednesday, although the contract hovered near a two-year low touched last week amid expectations of a bumper harvest in Argentina and weak Chinese demand for imported beans.

Spirit Airlines faces tough choices about its future including looking for another buyer and finding other ways to shore up its finances after a federal judge on Tuesday blocked its $3.8 billion merger deal with JetBlue Airways, industry experts said.

Brazilian airline Gol said on Tuesday it is discussing how to reach a "consensual" restructuring with financial stakeholders, following a media report that it was mulling filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in the United States.

Canadian apparel maker Gildan Activewear on Tuesday alleged that its former chief Glenn Chamandy failed to disclose certain fund investments and had an undisclosed relationship with a shareholder.

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will raise the price premiums for physical deliveries of some types of arabica coffee at the expiration of futures contracts at the exchange, including for Colombian beans, the exchange said on Tuesday.

Pharrell Williams kicked off Paris Fashion Week with Louis Vuitton's spring menswear show on Tuesday night, lining the catwalk with sharp, elaborately embellished American West outfits.

U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday after mixed earnings from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs pressured banks, and as sell-offs in Boeing and Apple weighed on the S&P 500.

U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday after mixed earnings from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs pressured banks, and as sell-offs in Boeing and Apple weighed on the S&P 500.

As much as one-fifth of U.S. winter wheat acreage was exposed to damaging cold temperatures during a frigid three-day holiday weekend, meteorologists said on Tuesday, with the biggest threat posed in areas of the southern Plains and Midwest that lacked protective snow cover.

Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures ended higher on Tuesday on a technical bounce, amid a day of volatile trading and a flurry of news with conflicting pricing guidance, traders said.

A dozen French Olympic athletes took to the catwalk on day one of Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday to parade their Stephane Ashpool-designed kit for this year's Olympics.

U.S. stocks dropped on Tuesday after mixed earnings from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs pressured banks, and as sell-offs in Boeing and Apple weighed on the S&P 500.