Ivory Coast's cocoa production for the 2023/24 season is expected at 1.75 million metric tons compared with a previous forecast in September of 1.8 million tons due to the spread of swollen shoot disease in cocoa farms, industry sources said on Monday.
The European Union has set targets to dig up, recycle and refine lithium, cobalt and other metals it needs for its green transition, but a shortage of new money, crippling energy costs and local opposition could put them beyond reach.
European chemicals producer OCI on Monday said it has agreed to sell its entire stake in Iowa Fertilizer Company to Koch AG & Energy Solutions for $3.6 billion.
Russian authorities are discussing aluminium giant Rusal's request to remove exchange rate export duties for two of its smelters, the Kommersant daily reported on Monday, citing sources and the industry and trade ministry.
Consumer goods giant Unilever on Monday said it would sell Elida Beauty, its non-core beauty and personal care division, to U.S. private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners.
China's imports of aluminium jumped 34.2% in November from a year earlier, customs data showed on Monday, as solid demand and expectations of lower domestic supply buying appetite strong.
Copper prices were flat on Monday after clocking a weekly gain in the last session supported by supply headwinds, while investors cautioned against macro uncertainty.
A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance.
Chinese animal feed and hog producer New Hope Liuhe plans to raise 4.2 billion yuan ($589.13 million) by selling majority stakes in two of its units, it said late on Friday, as it seeks to replenish capital after months of losses from pig farming.
Asian fertiliser buyers are seeking alternatives to Chinese supplies on concerns the world's top exporter has become an increasingly unreliable supplier after curbs on shipments to protect its domestic market, buyers and analysts said.
Chile's state copper company Codelco [COBRE.UL] and lithium producer SQM have agreed to establish a roundtable with indigenous communities amid talks over a possible partnership between the two companies in the Atacama salt flat, Codelco said on Friday.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog and cattle futures closed at their highest levels since November on Friday as short covering lifted the livestock markets, traders said.
U.S. soybean futures finished higher in the nearby contract and lower in deferred months on Friday as traders waited to see whether beneficial rains will arrive in dry areas of Brazil as expected.
Brazilian railway and port terminal operator VLI is bracing for a challenging 2024 given the expectation of smaller corn and soybean harvests in the north of Brazil, a key region for the company's shipping operations, a director said.
Large speculators trimmed their net short position in Chicago Board of Trade corn futures in the week to Dec. 12, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
The number of U.S. farm acres owned by foreign entities grew more than 8% in 2022, though the 43.4 million acres of foreign-owned forest and farm land is just 3.4% of the country's agricultural land, said a government report on Friday.
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