The barge carrying three trucks and 2,000 empty cooking gas cylinders lies stranded on the vast sand banks of a diminished Rio Negro river after running aground last month, highlighting the plight of river transport in a region hit by severe drought.
Grounded Indian airline Go First has received an expression of interest (EoI) from Jindal Power Ltd, two banking sources and two people aware of the development told Reuters.
Aerolineas Argentinas and Luxair said on Wednesday they will buy Embraer's E195-E2 jet for their fleets, helping ease investor concerns about demand for the Brazilian planemaker's largest commercial aircraft.
British Airways said on Wednesday it diverted a flight from London to Tel Aviv back to the UK due to security concerns in Israel, even as Israel's airports authority said there was no security threat at the airport at the time.
Raw sugar futures on ICE were lower on Wednesday with the strong pace of production in Centre-South Brazil weighing on the market, while robusta coffee prices were hovering just above the prior session's six-month low.
A travel boom has produced bumper earnings for major U.S. carriers this year but signs of softening demand on domestic routes have amplified worries that the bubble is about to burst, sparking a sell-off in airline stocks and prompting analysts to slash their earnings estimates.
Governments and airlines scrambled to lay on flights to evacuate thousands of tourists from Israel and repatriate the country's citizens, as the industry faced a warning over insurance cover amid escalating violence in the wake of weekend attacks.
Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday that he also had Beijing on his mind when he decided to help arm Ukraine given Western concern about the global expansion of authoritarianism.
Chicago corn, wheat and soybean futures edged lower on Wednesday as the markets turned their attention to widely followed U.S. government crop forecasts.
India is planning to extend a 20% duty on exports of parboiled rice until March 2024, a government official told Reuters on Wednesday, a move that could further reduce shipments from the world's largest exporter and raise global rice prices.
LVMH-backed Birkenstock was set to list its shares
on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday after the German
luxury sandal maker notched a valuation of $9.3 billion in its
U.S. initial public offering.