Price ratios for cocoa butter, a key ingredient in chocolate, firmed this week on the lack of supplies from cocoa-growing countries, European traders said on Friday. "There is almost no origin butter available," one trader

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A cargo volume of 42,771 tonnes comprising 39,507 tonnes of import cargo and 3,264 tonnes of export cargo inclusive 391 loaded & empty containers (TEUs) was handled at Port Qasim during the last 24 hours

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Basis bids for hard red winter wheat in the US Plains were steady on Friday, with export demand noted and worries about crop troubles persisting. The first heavy winter storm of the season did little

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Corn and soyabean spot basis bids were mostly unchanged across the US Midwest on Friday as farmers remained entrenched on the sidelines even as futures notched a modest rebound after falling to their lowest levels

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The Chicago Board of Trade on Friday barred a wheat broker from trading for 25 years for engaging in prohibited transactions. John Peavy, who worked in the open-outcry pit on the historic CBOT trading floor,

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Iraq will not pay oil companies operating in Kurdistan because the autonomous region has failed to export the volume of crude it pledged, a spokesman for Hussain al-Shahristani, Iraq's deputy prime minister for energy, said

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Bangladesh will import up to one million tonnes of rice from Thailand next year to help stabilise the domestic price of the commodity, the government said on Saturday. The two countries signed a memorandum during

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China on Saturday showed off the final link of the world's longest high-speed rail route set to begin whisking passengers from Beijing to Guangzhou next week in a third of the time currently required. The

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Democratic and Republican leaders traded blame as they left for the Christmas holiday amid fading hope of an agreement to avert a year-end fiscal crisis that could lead to stiff tax hikes and drastic budget

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The World Bank's arbitration unit has agreed to hear a complaint by Spanish oil firm Repsol over Argentina's expropriation of the company's former energy affiliate YPF. On its website, the International Center for Settlement of

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