A global aluminium producer has offered Japanese buyers a premium of $120 per metric ton for October-December primary metal shipments, down 6% from the current quarter, three sources directly involved in quarterly pricing talks said on Friday.
Myanmar is planning to temporarily restrict rice exports to control rising domestic prices, an official of its rice industry body said on Friday, joining India, the world's biggest shipper of the staple amid tightening world supplies.
The Taiwan Flour Millers' Association bought an estimated 104,000 metric tons of milling wheat to be sourced from the United States in a tender on Friday, European traders said.
Dutch airport operator Royal Schiphol Group [LUCHT.UL] on Friday reported a drop in first-half net profit to 15 million euros ($16.18 million) from 65 million euros a year earlier, citing higher operational costs.
Watches of Switzerland shares fell almost 30% on Friday, on course for the biggest one-day drop on record, as Rolex's purchase of retailer Bucherer raised questions about Watches' prospects.
London copper prices were on track for their biggest weekly
gain in four on Chinese policy support and hopes of improving
demand for the metal in the coming months.
Retail inflation will return to the central bank's comfort band of 2%-6% as vegetable prices soften, according to a member of India's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), who said the trajectory of inflation will be clearer once the recent spike ebbs.
Canada said on Friday it will participate as a third party in the dispute settlement proceedings between the U.S. and Mexico regarding genetically modified (GM) corn in imported tortillas and dough, citing concerns about Mexico's stance on the matter.
China is aiming to achieve a supply and demand balance in its steel market this year, the industry ministry said on Friday, even as the market faces mounting pressure from a floundering economy and ongoing property market woes.
India's Reliance Industries is likely to sell an additional 8-10% stake in its retail arm Reliance Retail Ventures to fund expansion, retire debt and prepare for a public listing of the conglomerate's retail business, the Economic Times reported on Friday.
Chicago wheat prices rose on Friday, as hot and dry weather in the United States and other key exporting countries raised the prospect of lower yields.
Chicago wheat prices edged higher on Friday, as hot and dry weather in the United States and other key exporting countries raised the prospect of lower yields.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) bought a total of 91,462 metric tons of food-quality wheat from the United States and Canada in a regular tender that closed on Thursday.
Iowa's corn yield prospects are lower than a year ago and below the three-year average, but soybean pod counts are higher than average, scouts on an annual tour of top U.S. production states found on Thursday.
A broad rise in prices of food essentials in India driven by uneven and scanty rain is forcing the government into a series of measures to boost supplies and ease inflationary pressures.
In a village a little over an hour's drive from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, six women wearing yellow rubber gloves and surgical masks work in a shed, gently squeezing the wet larvae of the black soldier fly into small plastic containers.
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