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Natural gas retreats on US stockpile data
11 Mar 2010 at 3:43pm
Nymex April Henry Hub fell 2.7 per cent following the latest US inventories data that showed a fall of 111bn cubic feet in stocks
Vale turns up heat on iron ore prices
11 Mar 2010 at 12:17pm
The miner, has asked some of the world’s top steel producers to pay 80-100 per cent more for their ore supplies in 2010-11
Push for clearing houses fails to move oil traders
11 Mar 2010 at 10:35am
Appetite for risk points to oil traders’ renewed faith in the strength of their trading counterparties
Publicity-shy Trafigura pushes for bond issue
11 Mar 2010 at 4:30pm
The capital market issue would mark a significant departure for one of the world’s largest and most profitable commodities traders, which has traditionally relied on bank credit lines
BP strikes $7bn Brazil oil deal
11 Mar 2010 at 4:18am
The energy group is set to make its first move into the deep waters off the South American country with a $7bn deal to buy oil and gas assets put up for sale by Devon Energy of the US
Queensland picks banks for A$7bn rail IPO
10 Mar 2010 at 10:24pm
The Queensland state government has appointed five banks to run a A$7bn share float of Queensland Rail’s coal and freight arm, expected to be Australia’s biggest listing this year
Indian harvest hopes sink sugar prices
10 Mar 2010 at 3:19pm
Sugar prices tumbled on Wednesday but crude oil prices breached the $83-a-barrel mark following the latest US weekly inventories data
Banks battle for record inflows into commodities
10 Mar 2010 at 6:32am
Commodity related exchange-traded products have emerged as a key battleground for investment banks keen to win a share of the record levels of financial flows that investors are ploughing into commodity market
Sugar suffers as India raises output estimate
9 Mar 2010 at 3:23pm
Sugar prices endure another pounding after estimates for India’s production this season were revised higher
Palm oil futures to be launched in Chicago
9 Mar 2010 at 3:12am
CME Group, the US derivatives marketplace, is to launch a US dollar-denominated, cash-settled crude palm oil futures contract on May 23
New money inflow set to make records
8 Mar 2010 at 3:18pm
Palladium prices hit a two-year high but crude oil faltered after making early gains while gold moved lower as the dollar strengthened
Oil futures turn upside down
8 Mar 2010 at 3:05pm
As the market flips even further an inverted price pattern is emerging in which we enter a world in which oil demand catches up with supply
Shell and PetroChina offer to buy Arrow
8 Mar 2010 at 11:18am
Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina move to take a lead role in Australia’s burgeoning coal-bed methane gas sector after making a joint offer for Brisbane-based Arrow Energy
BHP moves coking coal to short terms
8 Mar 2010 at 10:57am
Largest miner’s decision could signal end of benckmarking prices
Steelmaker sets the bar higher for coking coal
5 Mar 2010 at 3:23pm
The latest contract marks a break with decades of tradition under which they were agreed on an annual basis
Source: Financial Times
November 27 2007 09:06 am
