Archive for  September 2019
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China will buy about 6 million tonnes of soyabeans from the United States before trade talks in early October, said an influential analyst on Thursday, after Beijing issued several rounds of tariff waivers to support
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Chinese iron ore futures climbed more than 2% on Thursday, despite little trading in the physical market ahead of the country's National Day celebrations, as hints of progress in the US-China trade deal negotiations lifted
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The Karachi Port handled 204,000 tonnes of cargo comprising 126,420 tonnes of import cargo and 77,580 tonnes of export cargo including 8,687 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours
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Steady trend prevailed on the cotton market on Friday in process of hectic trading activity, dealers said. The official spot rate was higher by Rs 50 to Rs 8650, they added. In ready session, about
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Chicago Board of Trade corn futures ended lower on Thursday, pressured by a weaker-than-expected export sales report, traders said. The most-active corn futures contract hit its lowest since September 18 on a continuous basis. The
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Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat futures rose 1.8% on Thursday on a round of short covering and technical buying after falling for the previous five sessions, traders said. K.C. hard red winter
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At least 52 people died when an illegal gold mine collapsed in northern Chad this week, a government source said on Friday, with authorities still searching for more bodies. Chad officials initially said as many
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Several thousand people protested in northwest Bosnia on Friday against Croatia's plan to build a nuclear waste disposal site near their shared border, regional broadcaster N1 television reported. The plan for a "temporary storage" of
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Fresh protests broke out across Indonesia on Friday as the president ordered a probe into two student deaths during a wave of demonstrations against divisive legal reforms, including banning pre-marital sex and weakening the anti-graft
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The British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which had been held off the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas for more than two months, set sail Friday and reached international waters, the provincial maritime organisation and its
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