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Even as commodity markets turned bearish, following other markets into a state of jitters about Europe’s economies, the second-largest of the largest US public pension funds announced it was considering investing in them. The
Full story...President Barack Obama lived up to his promises this week, annoucing a series of major steps to boost US biofuels production. At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the US, he laid out three measures which
Full story...On January 8th the UK’s Crown Estate, which owns the seabed, announced the winners under the latest round of offshore windfarm licencing, known as Round 3. Round 1, which was held in 2001, was a “demonstration” round that offered
Full story...Porkers are in – Cranswick has just come out with third-quarter trading statement to prove it. The market thought it was a tasty morsel, too, and the pork meat supplier’s share price soared 45p to 800p, a new 12-month high. The
Full story...“We no longer have a putative project, we have a business.” So says Chris Lambert, chairman of Altona Energy, the London Aim-traded, Australia-based company with plans to develop a massive coal-to-liquids scheme in South
Full story...Fertilisers were where it was all happening last week, as supplies started to run low and the world’s two largest mining groups announced plans to spend a total of US$4.9 billion on acquisitions in the market. Vale is to buy a 16
Full story...As President Obama struggles to get a climate bill through the US Senate, flamboyant billionaire Ted Turner has announced that he is putting his money into solar power. He has joined forces with Southern, an Atlanta-based power
Full story...Russia’s anti-trust buster, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has established a record of making much ado about little; and of regulating only those corners of the Russian market where no oligarch-sized interest is
Full story...Central Petroleum has got the New Year off to a good start with its five-well campaign in the under-explored emptiness of Australia’s Northern Territory delivering an early discovery. The ASX-quoted company is exploring the coal
Full story...Soaring sugar prices are brightening prospects for Europe’s sugar businesses and attracting Chinese corporate buyers. Germany’s Sudzucker announced a 68 per cent rise in operating profits as sugar prices traded at 29 year highs
Full story...After such a bullish start to 2010, alternative energy markets during the past week under pressure from a buoyant dollar, from Chinese efforts to rein in soaring economic growth, from World Bank warnings on the risks to global
Full story...Jatropha, which was not so long ago hailed as a “wonder crop” that could be used in biodiesel production without competing with food crops, continues to lose credibility. A May 2009 report published by Friends of the Earth argues
Full story...Futures-based funds may not be the best way of making money in commodities, even though they are among the fastest growing fund sector, warned international investment research group Morningstar last week. In 2009 exchange traded
Full story...China lit a fire under the price of thermal coal over the past week, as the iciest weather for 60 years exacerbated its swing from exporter to importer. The price of thermal coal rose to above US$100 a tonne. Importers were said
Full story...The Russian Trade and Inspection Agency (Rospotrebnadzor) has initiated new chlorine limits for poultry processing, commencing this month. The effect will be to cut imports well below the quota levels announced last month,
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