Archive for the January 1, 2017
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Asia's coffee export markets were dull this week in typical year-end trade with few orders clinched while Vietnamese farmers were reluctant to sell beans on fears of supply shortage. Heavy rains over the past few
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Paris wheat futures rose on Thursday to a one-week high as an increase in US prices lent support to a European market otherwise lacking direction during a year-end lull. March milling wheat, the most active
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Palm oil on the European vegetable oils market was little changed on Thursday in very thin trade as players were winding down business ahead of the new year. Palm oil was mostly offered unchanged from
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Chinese steel rebar prices fell more than 2 percent, reversing the previous day's gains, while coke and coking coal remained under pressure on Thursday as concerns about weakening demand returned in volatile end-of-year trading. "The
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China's net gold imports via main conduit Hong Kong in November dropped 17.84 percent from October to its lowest in 10 months, data showed on Thursday. Net-gold imports fell to 50.178 tonnes in November from
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US officials are urgently seeking an agreement with South Korea that would allow imports of American eggs so farmers can cash in on a shortage caused by the Asian country's worst-ever outbreak of bird flu.
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Iran and European planemaker ATR are due to sign a deal next week for the purchase of 20 short-haul passenger aircraft, an Iranian official said on Saturday, weeks after Tehran finalised deals with Boeing and
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Tanzania is in talks with banking giant Credit Suisse for a $300 million loan that would go towards financing infrastructure projects, the country's finance minister said on Saturday. Philip Mpango said Tanzania was also in
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Lebanese daily newspaper As-Safir printed its final edition on Saturday, forced to close after 42 years because of financial problems as other news outlets in the country face similar difficulties. The front page led with
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Cuba welcomed a record four million tourists in 2016, up 13 percent over last year, with much of the increase thanks to a crush of visitors from the US and Europe, officials said on Saturday.
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