Archive for the January 3, 2019
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The Ethiopian government has issued an international tender to buy about 400,000 tonnes of milling wheat, European traders said on Wednesday. The tender deadline is January 31. Shipment is two months after the contract award,
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Russian natural gas volumes piped via Ukraine to European consumers fell by 7 percent in 2018 to 86.8 billion cubic metres (bcm), the Ukrainian gas transport monopoly Ukrtransgaz said on Wednesday. Ukrtransgaz gave no reason
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Russian wheat exports rose sharply to 1.2 million tonnes in the last week of December, but trade is expected to be thin during the December 30-January 8 New Year holiday, the SovEcon agricultural consultancy said.
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Shanghai steel futures turned lower on the first day of trading for 2019 on Wednesday after disappointing data from China stoked investor worries about global economic growth. Prices of steelmaking raw materials also ended the
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The Karachi Port handled 168,112 tonnes of cargo comprising 136,186 tonnes of import cargo and 31,926 tonnes of export cargo including 7,775 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours
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Slackened session was seen on the cotton market on Wednesday as both buyers and sellers adopted wait-and-see attitudes ahead of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners' Association (PCGA) fortnightly report, dealers said. The official spot rate was
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The premium of US natural gas futures for March over April 2019, a spread traders use to bet on winter weather, plunged over 90 percent to a record low on Wednesday from an all-time high
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Somalia's government has ordered the UN top envoy to the troubled country to leave, accusing him of "deliberately interfering with the country's sovereignty." The order comes days after the official, Nicholas Haysom, raised concerns at
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Britain can still punch above its weight globally even after it exits the European Union (EU), Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Wednesday ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote at home. Although Britain is neither a
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The Netherlands announced Wednesday it was prepared to welcome some of the 32 migrants waiting to disembark from a Dutch-flagged vessel in the Mediterranean, if other countries did the same. "The Netherlands has indicated a
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