Analysis: Commodities

Starbucks launches oat milk drink as vegan movement grows

Starbucks Corp on Tuesday added an oat milk beverage to its menu, as the coffee chain taps into the growing demand for vegan alternatives to dairy.

Exclusive: Canada's First Quantum weighs $1 billion Zambian copper mine expansion - document

Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals Ltd is weighing investment of around $1 billion to lift output at Africa's biggest copper mine in Zambia, a company document seen by Reuters showed, despite a...

BRENT CRUDE OIL SPOT: Oil: New year, same uncertainty

After five months of monotony, oil markets are coming out of their torpor. The OPEC+ has decided to increase the current production cuts by 500,000 barrels per day. This agreement brings the volume of...

How ethanol plant shutdowns deepen pain for U.S. corn farmers

When the U.S. ethanol industry was booming, Indiana farmer Paul Hodgen made good money selling about a quarter of his crop to a local facility that produced the corn-based fuel....

Australia's Newcrest Mining raises stake in Canada's Lundin Gold

Australia's Newcrest Mining Ltd said on Friday it had raised its stake in Canadian miner Lundin Gold Inc to 32% with an additional C$79.6 million investment as it looks to increase its exposure in...

Silver Lake appoints Egon Durban, Greg Mondre as first co-CEOs

Private equity firm Silver Lake on Monday named company veterans Egon Durban and Greg Mondre to the newly formed roles of co-chief executive officers.

LME Copper Cash : Canada's First Quantum may team-up with Rio Tinto to develop Peru copper mine

Canadian miner First Quantum Minerals Ltd is looking for strategic partners to develop new copper projects and a joint venture with Rio Tinto in Peru could be on the cards, First Quantum's chief...

Manchester City owner scores $4.8 billion price tag with stake sale

Manchester City's Abu Dhabi-controlled owner has agreed to sell a $500 million stake to U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake, making it the world's most valuable soccer group with a $4.8 billion price...

Kirkland shares fall after Canadian miner offers $3 billion for Detour Gold

Canadian miner Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd's shares fell as much as 16% in Toronto on Monday after investors reacted negatively to the hefty premium it agreed to pay to buy smaller rival Detour Gold Corp...

Barrick seeks to eclipse $1.5 billion asset sales target, eyes more copper

Canadian miner Barrick Gold Corp is keen to top its $1.5 billion target for asset sales after shedding its half of the Super Pit gold mine in Western Australia, Chief Executive Officer Mark Bristow...

Gold : Oil is our gold and we aim to use all of it, ADNOC official says

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co aims to exhaust its vast oil and gas reserves even as many consumers switch to cleaner sources of energy, a senior executive in the Gulf oil company said.

BRENT CRUDE OIL SPOT: Neutrality is required

The general opolitical tensions that had animated the oil markets since mid-September are gradually dissipating, allowing the market to breathe despite headwinds on the fundamentals front. OPEC has...

WTI: In the middle of its range

The general opolitical tensions that had animated the oil markets since mid-September are gradually dissipating, allowing the market to breathe despite headwinds on the fundamentals front. OPEC has...

BRENT CRUDE OIL SPOT: LOPEP in the face of its policy limitations

The general opolitical tensions that had animated the oil markets since mid-September are gradually dissipating, allowing the market to breathe despite headwinds on the fundamentals front. It is...

GOLD: Waiting for the start signal

While equity markets are posting new stock market zenith, investors’s appetite for risky assets does not weaken the current upward trend in gold prices. The price of gold metal is indeed continuing...

TSX falls 0.10% to 16,387.53

* The Toronto Stock Exchange's TSX falls  0.10 percent to 16,387.53 

CANADA STOCKS - TSX rises 0.21% to 16,404.49

The Toronto Stock Exchange's TSX rises  0.21 percent to 16,404.49 

Teck Resources profit beats on strong energy, zinc units

Canadian miner Teck Resources Ltd on Thursday beat expectations for quarterly adjusted profit, as strength in its energy and zinc units offset weak base metal prices amid a prolonged U.S.-China trade...

BRENT CRUDE OIL SPOT: Oil: No reaction to the new situation in the Middle East

While the resurgence of geopolitical frictions in the Middle East is driven by the oil markets, it must be noted that operators do not seem to be deciding to move away from their waiting position....