London Metal Exchange (LME) zinc stocks have more than doubled to 145,975 metric tons over the last month and are now at their highest level since February 2022.
Food technology company ENOUGH, which has partnerships with Unilever and Marks & Spencer, has raised 40 million euros ($43.5 million), attracting investment despite signs of a slowdown in the alternative meat and protein sector.
Speculators have ramped up their comfort with global corn supplies this month, though U.S. crop uncertainties continue lingering as the Corn Belt will be gripped by hot and dry weather this week, possibly impacting yield.
Tropical storm Hilary lashed the Baja California peninsula with heavy rains on Sunday as it hurtled towards the U.S. Southwest, where forecasters warned it would trigger life-threatening and "catastrophic" flooding amid historically large rainfall.
Egypt expects to begin reaping the benefits of an Abu Dhabi-financed deal to buy $500 million of imported wheat in January, supply minister Ali Moselhy said on Sunday.
China's soybean imports from the United States tumbled 62% in July from a year earlier while shipments from Brazil, its top supplier, surged 32%, data showed on Sunday, spurred by a bumper crop and lower prices in the Latin American country.
India will impose with immediate effect a 40% export duty on onions up to Dec. 31 in an attempt to improve domestic availability of the vegetable, the ministry of finance said in a notification on Saturday.
Electric-vehicle batteries and other car parts are the latest products under scrutiny as part of Washington's effort to stamp out U.S. links to forced labor in Chinese supply chains, according to a document seen by Reuters, agency statistics and sources.
India's Tata Group-owned Titan Co will raise its stake in its subsidiary CaratLane Trading by 27.2% for 46.21 billion rupees ($555.8 million), the parent company said in an exchange filing on Saturday.
Brazil's government expects Congress to approve a series of energy transition-related bills in the next 100 days that it believes will boost the country's decarbonization credentials at the upcoming COP28 climate summit, an official told Reuters on Friday.
Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures jumped nearly 4% on Friday as a drone attack on Moscow revived concerns over the risk of war disruptions to Black Sea grain exports, analysts said.
Large speculators increased their net short position in Chicago Board of Trade corn futures in the week to Aug. 15, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
The Brazilian unit of China's COFCO International started operating the South American country's first biodiesel pipeline connecting its plant in Rondonopolis, at the heart of Brazil's farm country, to nearby distributors.
Arabica coffee futures on ICE settled higher on Friday after earlier hitting their lowest level in seven months as the harvest in top producer Brazil draws to an end, while London cocoa steadied after touching a fresh 46-year-high on Thursday.
Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose 3% on Friday as a drone attack on Moscow and a reported Ukrainian sea strike near Crimea revived concerns over war disruptions to Black Sea grain exports, analysts said.