Commodities & Metals
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Since reaching a peak in 2011, food prices have dropped by a third on the strength of bumper crops and improved global availability of food.
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Copper miner and oil producer Freeport-McMoRan announced Wednesday morning that the company had appointed two new board members recommended by activist investor Carl Icahn.
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Monsanto reported fourth-quarter and fiscal 2015 results before markets opened Wednesday morning.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its preliminary report on August farm prices Tuesday afternoon.
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Glencore's recent share offering raised $2.5 billion that the company planned to use to reduce its debt burden of some $30 billion, most accrued in its acquisition of Xstrata.
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As much as Alcoa and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld want everyone to accept that what Alcoa calls the upstream business is sound and on a growth path, the reality is a little more complicated.
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Alcoa announced Monday morning that the company will split into two independent, publicly traded companies.
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Cal-Maine Foods reported mixed first-quarter fiscal 2016 results before markets opened Monday morning.
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The scandal swirling around Volkswagen will inevitably have an impact on other diesel vehicle makers. That is not good news for platinum.
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AK Steel expects the positive financial effects of higher shipments, lower raw material costs, cost reduction efforts and higher operating rates will partially offset lingering low carbon steel spot...
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On the EconoMonitor blog, two researchers from the IMF have posted a brief account of the commodity price downturn in both base metals and oil.
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Glencore has placed a total of more than a billion new ordinary shares in the London-traded company with existing and new institutional shareholders, as well as certain company officials and...
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Alcoa was down in the market on Monday on news of an alumina curtailment as discussions continue with the government of Suriname.
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What are investors to make of a Bank of America Merrill Lynch research call where the firm is recommending one steel and one aluminum company and ditching a key steel stock it has been defending for...
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Glencore said Monday that it will suspend its dividend, issue $2.5 billion in new stock and sell assets, including a stake in its agricultural business.
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