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...Indian authorities have stepped up efforts to control domestic supplies and prices of agricultural commodities such as sugar, onions and wheat ahead of next year’s general election, the latest in a series...
...Legal & General Investment Management told trade publication ETF Stream that its Enhanced Commodities Ucits ETF was overweight sugar at the start of October....
...It was set up in 2011 by David Messer and other former leaders of Sempra Commodities, once a top commodities trading house....
...Trafigura said the ex-employee was a former consultant to DT Group, which was a joint venture formed in 2009 by Trafigura and Cochan Holdings LLC, an investment vehicle controlled by a former military adviser...
...As for why the once-humble vegetable is now a hot commodity on London’s restaurant circuit, Laker isn’t sure. “The trendy middle class get hold of ingredients and they become cult items,” he guesses....
...“Sometimes when people talk about us, Dangote, it’s like the government is holding everybody down and allowing us alone to fly.”...
...Exchanges in China last year announced that they would make additional futures and options contracts on assets such as soyabeans, white sugar and peanut kernels available to international investors holding...
...But its speciality business agreed to insure thermal coal mining company Global Mining Holding Company, LLC, and its subsidiary Signal Peak Energy for up to $2mn, for the two years to November 2023, according...
...Notably, the firm has developed a major commodities business and grown into a natural gas powerhouse....
...It has had to contend with speculation about the profitability of its Ingenuity division, which helps other companies to sell online, and higher commodity prices for its protein shakes....
...Shell is under fire on several fronts after ABP, the Dutch pension fund, announced plans earlier in the week to divest all its holdings in fossil fuel companies, including Shell, because it saw insufficient...
...Buoyed by high commodity prices and determined to diversify their oil-reliant economies, Gulf states have been a magnet for Wall Street firms....
...DWR Commodities, Flow Traders, Capstone Investment Advisors and Winton Capital Management were the other claimants with the five companies estimating earlier this week that they collectively lost $95mn of...
...That world-class knowhow helped Citadel make as much as $8bn out of bets on gas and power and other commodity markets last year alone, part of the fund’s eye-popping 38 per cent gains in 2022....
...The fact that some of the largest lenders in the US are stuck holding some of the riskiest debt may also concern regulators....
...Since Russia invaded Ukraine, investors such as Norway’s sovereign wealth fund have dumped their holdings in Polymetal....
...In parts of Europe, hot-rolled coil, a widely traded commodity used in manufacturing that is often seen as a benchmark for steel prices, jumped from €950 a tonne just before the invasion to more than €1,400...
...Foreign holdings of Russian equities reached a total of $86bn at the end of 2021, Moscow Exchange data show....
...Chelsea FC Holdings itself is controlled by Blueco 22, which replaced Fordstam as owner in late May....
...We see core inflation holding above 3 per cent through 2024 and 2025, underpinning our view that whilst the BoE can ease in 2024, bigger cuts will not be an option....
...47) Messari Holdings Appears to be the operator of data platform Messari, which promises “industry leading research, data, and analytics tools”. It seems to be alive and well. Good on ’em....
...The deal comes as Glencore and its new chief executive Gary Nagle weigh options for its near 50 per cent holding in Viterra....
...But such hugely ambitious plans take time, says James Mwangi (no relation to Dalberg’s Mwangi), chief executive of Equity Group Holdings, a Nairobi-based regional bank....
...Just last week ABP, the huge Dutch pension fund, said it was dumping €15bn in fossil fuel holdings, including Shell, because it no longer saw the point of working with such companies on decarbonisation....
...The comments by Ben van Beurden follow a decision this week by one of the world’s largest pension funds to sell its entire holdings in fossil fuel companies and come a day after it was revealed that Daniel...
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