Archive for the January 8, 2019
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Chinese importers made their third large US soyabean purchase in the past month on Monday, as officials from both countries meet this week for the first face-to-face talks since agreeing to a 90-day trade war
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Russia-focused fertiliser producer Eurochem plans to become a major potash market player by 2020 with a production capacity of 2 million tonnes, its Chief Financial Officer Andrey Ilyin told Reuters. Swiss-based Eurochem, owned by Russian
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Brazilian soya farmers face the prospect of more crop failures, a grain growers group said on Friday, as a leading agribusiness consultancy revised its forecast for the country's crop this year due to a drought
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Buyers and sellers of specialty coffee, increasingly worried about future supplies of high quality beans, are finding new ways to price their coffee after benchmark US futures hit a 13-year-low in late 2018. Specialty coffees
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New York-based Paulson & Co, led by longtime gold bull John Paulson, kept its stake in gold investments during the third quarter of 2018 while other heavyweights including Jana Partners LLC and Caxton Corp remained
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Scarce rainfall and dry winds last week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions have raised concerns about the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday. The world's top cocoa producer is in the dry season
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All major Gulf markets rose for a third straight session on Monday, boosted by financial stocks amid rising oil prices, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar gained sharply as most of their banks increased. Oil prices
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Japan's Nikkei rose on Monday, tracking sharp gains on Wall Street as dovish comments from the Federal Reserve chairman helped ease some of the market's worries about a slowdown in global growth. The Nikkei share
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US stocks rose on Monday as gains in the technology and consumer discretionary sectors helped extend Friday's rally, with investors focused on the ongoing US-China trade talks. The rally was led by momentum names such
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Hong Kong shares ended higher on Monday after China's central bank cut banks' reserve requirements to boost the economy, and after the head of the US Federal Reserve moved to ease market concerns over the
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