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U.S. corn futures rose more than 3% on Monday to hit their highest in more than eight years as a drought in southern Brazil exacerbated worries about global supply.

Speculators were expected last week to have gone on a record buying spree in Chicago corn, but it was a commercial short squeeze that seemed to better explain the highly volatile price activity.

United Arab Emirates carrier flydubai swung to a loss of 712.6 million dirhams ($194 million) last year, hit by a plunge in passenger traffic as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it said on Sunday.

German carrier Lufthansa and budget unit Eurowings aim to offer flights to more than 100 holiday destinations, Chief Executive Carsten Spohr told Bild am Sonntag.

Argentina's grains exports brought in some $3 billion in April, the CIARA-CEC chamber of exporters and oilseed producers said on Saturday, driven by high global prices for soybeans, corn, wheat and other cereals.

Ukrainian wheat export prices have risen $14 a tonne over the past week amid fears of a weaker harvest in the United States, the European Union and Brazil, the APK-Inform agriculture consultancy said on Saturday.

A U.S. bankruptcy court will allow Grupo Aeromexico, which operates Mexico's largest airline, to increase the size of its fleet of planes, the company said in a statement on Friday.

FXEmpire.com - The outlook for commodity prices remain bullish, given the current weakness in the U.S. Dollar, shortages due to the reopening of the global economy and expectations that the Federal Reserve will allow U.S. inflation to exceed mandated levels.

In trading on Friday, shares of MAG Silver Corp (Symbol: MAG) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $17.34, changing hands as low as $17.19 per share. MAG Silver Corp shares are currently trading off about 2.4% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performanc

The top anti-corruption watchdog in Southwest China's Yunnan province said on Friday the governor of the burgeoning aluminium hub of Wenshan had been placed under investigation.

Chicago corn, soybean and wheat futures rose on Friday after three days of volatile trade following a run-up to eight-year highs, traders said.

Cocoa futures in New York and London fell heavily on Friday as the world's top producer Ivory Coast projected higher output and reduced the amount it was willing to reimburse exporters.[nL8N2MN6HB]

The Biden administration said on Friday it is extending face mask requirements across all U.S. transportation networks through Sept. 13 to address the spread of COVID-19.

Large speculators cut their net long position in Chicago Board of Trade corn futures in the week to April 27, regulatory data released on Friday showed.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday imposed new travel restrictions on India in light of the COVID-19 epidemic, barring most non-U.S. citizens from entering the United States.

Boeing Co said on Friday it fired 65 employees over the last year for engaging in or being part of racist, discriminatory or hateful conduct.

Ivory Coast's cocoa output in the 2020/21 season is expected to rise slightly to about 2.225 million tonnes from 2.2 million tonnes the previous season, the head of the cocoa sector regulator said on Friday.

Export prices for Ukrainian 2021 rapeseed rose by around $100 a tonne over the past 20 days amid an expected decrease in rapeseed output in the European Union and global upward trend, analyst APK-Inform said on Friday.

Brazil's 2020/2021 total corn crop estimate was lowered by almost 8% to 104.1 million tonnes as dry weather is affecting yields of the country's second corn plantings, said forecaster Safras & Mercado on Friday.

BNSF, the railroad unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, is prepared to handle any increase in rail traffic if the Dakota Access oil pipeline (DAPL) is shut due to an ongoing legal dispute, the company told Reuters.