U.S. soybean futures rose on Thursday on worries about dryness building in the Midwest crop belt, while a setback in the dollar and speculative buying at the start of a new month lent additional support, analysts said.
Robusta coffee futures on the ICE exchange rallied on Thursday with further reports of supply tightness in top producing and exporting region Asia, while arabica coffee also rose.
Lululemon Athletica Inc raised its annual sales and profit forecasts on Thursday, betting on strong demand for its activewear from affluent U.S. shoppers and a recovery in China, sending its shares up 11% in extended trading.
Brazil's Supreme Court has upheld the suspension pending studies of a government plan to reduce a forest conservation park in the Amazon to allow for the building of a controversial railway to carry grains to northern ports.
A group of U.S. congressmen have formally complained about what they call unfair ethanol trade practices by Brazil that includes a blockade of U.S. companies seeking to take part in the Brazilian low-carbon biofuel program RenovaBio.
Ukraine's ministry of renovation and infrastructure said on Thursday the U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain export deal had been halted again because Russia had blocked registration of ships to all Ukrainian ports.
American Airlines' plan to grow revenue by relying more heavily on alliance partners to ferry passengers in uncompetitive markets while bulking up flights to U.S. Sunbelt states has been called into question by a U.S. court ruling blocking a key tie-up.
Journalists at LVMH's French business daily Les Echos have called for a strike on Friday, in the latest flare-up of tensions that have been running high since the abrupt dismissal of the publication's editor-in-chief in March.
U.S. soybean and corn futures rose on Thursday on worries about dryness building in the Midwest crop belt, while a setback in the dollar and commodity fund buying at the start of a new month lent additional support, analysts said.
Robusta coffee futures on the ICE exchange rallied on Thursday with further reports of supply tightness in top producing and exporting region Asia, while arabica coffee also rose following sharp losses last month.
Outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia Inc has settled its lawsuit accusing Gap Inc of illegally copying the "iconic" snapped flap pocket that the company has long featured on its fleece outerwear.
Roberto Cavalli launched a "disruptive" capsule collection outside the traditional catwalk calendar on Thursday as the Italian fashion label seeks to rebrand itself after a few shaky years.
Weak profit forecasts from department store chain Macy's to discounter Dollar General on Thursday underscored the fragile health of the U.S. consumer as persistent inflation curbs spending.
Argentina's revenue from exports of grain, oilseeds and their derivatives totaled $4.2 billion in May, broadly on a par with the same month a year earlier, the country's CIARA-CEC chamber of grains exporters and oilseed producers said on Thursday.
LVHM chief Bernard Arnault is set to visit China, two sources told Reuters on Thursday, as European luxury goods makers closely track the pace of recovery of the key market following three years of COVID disruptions.