Almost half of 217 global firms cut their business travel carbon emissions by at least 50% between 2019 and 2022, analysis published on Monday found, as corporate air travel returned at a much slower pace since the pandemic than leisure flights.
China logged record corn imports of 3.59 million metric tons in November, customs data showed on Monday, adding to a record domestic crop and further pressuring prices in the world's no.2 grower.
Southwest Airlines agreed to a record-setting $140 million civil penalty over the December 2022 holiday meltdown that led to 16,900 flight cancellations and stranded 2 million passengers, the U.S. government said on Monday.
Ivory Coast's cocoa production for the 2023/24 season is expected at 1.75 million metric tons compared with a previous forecast in September of 1.8 million tons due to the spread of swollen shoot disease in cocoa farms, industry sources said on Monday.
The European Union has set targets to dig up, recycle and refine lithium, cobalt and other metals it needs for its green transition, but a shortage of new money, crippling energy costs and local opposition could put them beyond reach.
European chemicals producer OCI on Monday said it has agreed to sell its entire stake in Iowa Fertilizer Company to Koch AG & Energy Solutions for $3.6 billion.
Russian authorities are discussing aluminium giant Rusal's request to remove exchange rate export duties for two of its smelters, the Kommersant daily reported on Monday, citing sources and the industry and trade ministry.
Consumer goods giant Unilever on Monday said it would sell Elida Beauty, its non-core beauty and personal care division, to U.S. private equity firm Yellow Wood Partners.
China's imports of aluminium jumped 34.2% in November from a year earlier, customs data showed on Monday, as solid demand and expectations of lower domestic supply buying appetite strong.
Copper prices were flat on Monday after clocking a weekly gain in the last session supported by supply headwinds, while investors cautioned against macro uncertainty.
A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance.
Chinese animal feed and hog producer New Hope Liuhe plans to raise 4.2 billion yuan ($589.13 million) by selling majority stakes in two of its units, it said late on Friday, as it seeks to replenish capital after months of losses from pig farming.
Asian fertiliser buyers are seeking alternatives to Chinese supplies on concerns the world's top exporter has become an increasingly unreliable supplier after curbs on shipments to protect its domestic market, buyers and analysts said.
Chile's state copper company Codelco [COBRE.UL] and lithium producer SQM have agreed to establish a roundtable with indigenous communities amid talks over a possible partnership between the two companies in the Atacama salt flat, Codelco said on Friday.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog and cattle futures closed at their highest levels since November on Friday as short covering lifted the livestock markets, traders said.
U.S. soybean futures finished higher in the nearby contract and lower in deferred months on Friday as traders waited to see whether beneficial rains will arrive in dry areas of Brazil as expected.