Indonesia on Friday flew its first commercial flight using palm oil-blended jet fuel, as the world's biggest producer of the commodity pushes for wider use of biofuels to cut fuel imports.
The Australian Federation of Pilots (AFAP) said on Friday it has advised an unit of Qantas Airways it will stop work on Wednesday to Thursday next week in a bid to negotiate wages.
Ukraine's grain exports have fallen to 8.72 million metric tons so far in the 2023/24 July-June marketing season, agriculture ministry data showed on Friday.
Nickel prices reversed course to recoup early losses on Friday, but were set for their biggest weekly decline in a month, pressured by a surplus in the global market.
French farmers had harvested 85% of this year's grain maize crop by Oct. 23, compared with 74% a week earlier, farm office FranceAgriMer said on Friday.
Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart-controlled Hancock Prospecting has taken an 18% stake in Azure Minerals, it said on Friday, potentially hindering Chile's SQM to take full control of the lithium developer.
British Airways-owner IAG and Air France-KLM shares fell sharply on Friday, with Air France-KLM reaching all-time lows, as investors feared weak outlooks despite record quarterly profits.
Sri Lanka's apparel export earnings slumped by $900 million in the first nine months this year, an industry association said on Friday, as slowing global demand undermines a mainstay of the struggling South Asian country's economy.
Airline group Air France-KLM on Friday reported its highest third quarter operating profit ever at 1.3 billion euros ($1.37 billion), in line with analysts' consensus, driven by strong summer demand.
Air China's Hong Kong-listed shares rose almost 6% on Friday, their biggest jump in four months, after the flagship carrier reported its first quarterly profit in nearly four years.
India's blue-chip stocks rose on Friday after logging losses for the past six sessions, after U.S. treasury yields retreated following weaker-than-expected inflation data, easing some rate-related worries.
Fierce rivals Shein and PDD Holdings-owned Temu have applied to end their legal fights with each other in the U.S., documents show, marking a truce even as a global market share battle between the low-price online platforms heats up.
Chicago corn slid on Friday and was set for its biggest weekly decline since early August, while soybeans were on track for their worst week in a month, with both markets under pressure from rapidly advancing U.S. harvest.
Significant rainfall last weekend over Argentina's core farmland has improved the prospects for the current corn crop, while also stanching the bleeding for planted wheat after an intense dry spell, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange (BdeC) said on Thursday.
Russian producer Rusal's decision to buy into a Chinese raw materials supplier is a significant marker in the reconfiguration of the global aluminium map.
U.S. soybean meal exports are well on their way to new highs this season with big weekly sales volumes rolling in after a terrifically bad soybean harvest in top soymeal supplier Argentina earlier this year.
Brazilian planemaker Embraer said on Thursday its firm order backlog reached $17.8 billion at the end of the third quarter, including a newly announced order by SkyWest for 19 of its E175 jets.
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