Malaysian palm oil futures fell nearly 3% on Thursday as they tracked cheaper rivals on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and the Dalian Commodity Exchange and as market expects an increase in production.
Belarusian national flag carrier Belavia said on Thursday it had been forced to cancel flights to eight countries from May 27 to Oct. 30 due to European flight bans, including flights to Kaliningrad, Russia's Baltic enclave.
Beef prices are surging worldwide, taking meat off the menu in steak-loving Buenos Aires and spoiling summer barbecues in the United States as Chinese imports rise and the cost of feeding cattle soars.
Talks on the future of the European Union's huge farming subsidies ran into extra time on Thursday, as negotiators argued over how far they are willing to change the rules to support small farmers and make agriculture greener.
Australia could supply Japan with one million tonnes of "green" hydrogen a year by 2030, project developers predict, if costs can be lowered sharply and transport challenges overcome.
The family of the founder of British airline easyJet sold a small stake in the company, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday, reducing the Haji-Ioannou family's holding to 25.3% from 26.7%.
European Union sanctions on Belarus will likely hit the country's potash and oil sectors, as well as financial transactions, foreign ministers from Germany, Luxembourg and Lithuania said on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia’s main state wheat buying agency, the Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO) on Thursday issued an international tender to purchase about 720,000 tonnes of wheat, European traders said.
Several cities in China's southern province Guangdong, a major manufacturing hub, have asked industry to curb power use by suspending operations for hours or even days as high factory use combined with hot weather strain the region's power system.
Online travel group eDreams Odigeo on Thursday reported a tripling of its annual net loss but the Spanish firm said the market has started to improve in the fiscal year that began in April.
Stock markets have found a kind of equilibrium these days,
below record highs yet apparently content about the U.S. Federal Reserve's wait-and-watch policy stance.
Australian shares closed slightly higher on Thursday, as gains in mining and tech stocks eclipsed losses in gold names, while investors remained cautious ahead of key U.S. inflation data.
Airline SAS on Thursday reported a smaller loss for its February-April quarter than a year ago and said COVID-19 vaccinations provided some hope for looser travel restrictions and higher demand ahead of the important summer season.
Copper prices advanced on Thursday, on supply threats in top producer Chile, while slower pace of earnings in top consumer China's industrial firms eased concerns of policy tightening.
Online travel group eDreams Odigeo on Thursday reported a tripling of its annual net loss but the Spanish firm said the market has started to improve in the fiscal year that began in April.
French luxury goods group Kering said on Thursday it sold a 5.9% stake in German sportswear company Puma for around 805 million euros ($982.02 million) via a placement to investors.
Airline SAS reported on Thursday big losses for the February-April period, albeit smaller than a year earlier, as sales tumbled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.