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Commodities

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Gold
    Gold set to rally further this year, say Wall Street banks

    Yellow metal expected to continue to benefit from buying by global central banks

    Women browse gold jewellery displayed in a store window at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Susannah Savage
    Will weight-loss drugs lead to upheaval in the sugar market?

    While many traders have brushed off concerns, the potential impact is clear

    A machine shoots raw sugar into a pile inside a warehouse outside the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of South Florida processing facility in Belle Glade, Florida
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Global InsightAndy Bounds
    The EU’s impossible choice on trade and tariffs

    Trump’s threat of higher duties on Chinese goods raises the stakes for a union proud of its free-trading instincts

    A paint factory in China
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    EU energy
    Russian gas stops flowing through Ukraine

    Transit deal expires with no follow-up agreement on flows to central Europe

    Yellow, red and blue pipeline infrastructure
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    KoBold Metals
    Gates and Bezos-backed mining start-up valued at $2.96bn

    KoBold Metals aims to lead race for critical minerals needed for energy transition

    A large drill rig at KoBold Metals' Mingomba site in Zambia
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Copper
    Telecoms groups forecast to reap $10bn windfall from recycled copper

    Industry is decommissioning legacy lines as demand for metal expected to grow

    A worker inspects large coiled bundles of 8mm copper wire in a warehouse
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    LexOil
    The Lex 2024 hits and misses: slick on oil, blown off course on wind

    Right on the price of crude — but who would have thought renewables would have another bad year?

    Jack-up rigs stand near to the Teesside Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Scottish economy
    Future of Scottish oil refinery linked to biofuels investment

    Ministers under pressure to secure future of imperilled Grangemouth facility

    The refinery spreads over a large distance. Emissions can be seen rising from cooling towers and stacks
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Ukraine
    Ukraine receives first US gas shipments via Greece

    Kyiv’s purchase comes before expiry of Russian gas transit deal and Trump’s inauguration

    Donald Trump shakes hands with Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Food groups develop a taste for cocoa alternatives

    High commodity prices and sustainability concerns prompting investment by likes of Mondelēz into lab-grown versions

    Cocoa pods and beans
  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
    Eni SpA
    Eni fires up €100mn supercomputer in race to find oil and gas reservoirs

    Italian energy giant switches on the world’s most powerful machine outside the US

    The HPC6 supercomputer, in the Italian town of Ferrera Erbognone
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Natural gas
    EU burns through gas storage at fastest rate since energy crisis

    Colder weather and lower seaborne imports increase reliance on stored gas

    Pipelines and industrial equipment are seen at the gas storage facility n Bad Lauchstädt, Germany
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    El Salvador
    El Salvador lawmakers overturn mining ban

    President Nayib Bukele had called prohibition ‘absurd’ despite pushback from environmental and social groups

    A woman holds up a sign in Spanish that translates to ‘No to mining, yes to life’, during a protest agains the mining bill San Salvador, El Salvador
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Methane pollution at US’s biggest oilfield plunges after Biden crackdown

    Emissions at Permian Basin of potent greenhouse gas declined 26% in 2023

    A row of pumpjacks
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Venture Global
    LNG developer Venture Global files for US IPO

    Liquefied natural gas exporter looks to tap into enthusiasm over Trump’s pledge to boost energy exports

    A natural gas tanker in the ocean
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    EU energy
    EU imports record quantities of Russian LNG in 2024

    Bloc received 16.5mn tonnes of liquefied natural gas by mid-December despite efforts to reduce supplies from Russia

    An LNG tanker moored in the Mediterranean Sea
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    US trade
    Trump tells EU to buy US oil and gas or face tariffs

    US president-elect warns bloc that member states will face tariffs unless they make big purchases

    Donald Trump speaks at a podium
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Shell tied new Nigeria offshore investments to approval for oil asset sale

    Approval for exit from operation at centre of decades of criticism over environmental impact marked sharp turnaround

    Bonga offshore production facility
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    Trump protectionism threatens energy transition, warns BHP chief

    Mike Henry says shifting US policies risk slowing allocation of capital to projects essential to renewables switch

    Mike Henry, chief executive of BHP
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    Syria’s largest refinery stops operating as Iran oil flow ceases

    Ninety per cent of country’s crude came from Iran before fall of Bashar al-Assad, says refinery chief

    The Baniyas oil refinery
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Energy Source
    The trends that defined the energy sector in 2024 Premium content

    From stable oil markets to a nuclear energy revival, these were the themes that shaped the industry

    A pumpjack operates in the middle of a cotton field as wind turbines run in the distance
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    The wondrous gift of open trade is given

    Flexible economies and free markets have kept globalisation going this year

    Shelves of olive oil at a Mercadona SA supermarket
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Ineos Group Ltd
    Ineos Energy chief warns ‘punitive’ UK taxes make North Sea uninvestable

    Industry veteran Brian Gilvary says government policies force oil and gas explorers to seek opportunities in other markets

    Brian Gilvary
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    European companies
    EU should force customers to buy less polluting products, companies say

    Major fossil fuel and industrial groups push for mandatory requirements in letter to European climate commissioner

    European Union flags
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Natural gas
    Biden administration casts fresh doubt on new US LNG expansion

    Energy secretary says more gas projects would push up domestic prices and threaten climate goals

    US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks and gestures at a podium
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