A shift to forecasts for better crop weather in South American soy areas, especially in Argentina, drove Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures to a lower close on Thursday with prices ending over 2 percent

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Chicago Board of Trade rough rice futures closed lower on Thursday as players took profits after Wednesday's climb to contract highs, traders said. "When we couldn't really follow through with yesterday's rally, I think we

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Vietnamese sugar refiners are seeking permission to import between 100,000 and 150,000 tonnes of raw and refined sugar next year because of a shortfall caused by bad weather over the past several months. A drought

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Malaysian crude palm oil futures ended 2005 mostly firm after a rise in prices of US soyoil prompted players to lend technical support to the local market. The benchmark third-month futures, March, settled flat at

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China will end price controls on the coal used for generating electricity from 2006 and allow miners and power firms to negotiate their own prices, the country's top economic planning body said in a statement.

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Sony BMG has reached a tentative settlement to end lawsuits that accused the music label of leaving CD buyers vulnerable to attack from hackers and malicious software, officials said. Groups involved in the lawsuits said

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European aerospace group EADS and Germany's ThyssenKrupp Technologies said on Friday they would buy sonar equipment maker Atlas Elektronik from BAE Systems, aiming to bolster Europe's fragmented naval arms industry. EADS and ThyssenKrupp will pay

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Finnish and Estonian gas companies are working on a project to lay a pipeline at the bottom of the Baltic Sea to enable natural gas to be shipped to Finland from storage facilities in the

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At least 1,000 angry Bangladeshi textile workers took to the streets in Dhaka Friday after one of their colleagues was beaten to death allegedly by factory staff for stealing a T-shirt, police said. The worker,

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The European Union on Friday called an emergency meeting of member states' energy officials on January 4 amid fears its natural gas supplies might be disrupted as a result of a dispute between Russia and

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