Commodities

From Oscars To Tuna Cans, Tin Gets More Expensive As Mines Quit

Smart phones, cars and a prolonged mining slump are creating tighter supplies of tin, a metal used mostly as solder for electrical circuits. Demand for...

Agriculture Gets No Love From Commodity Rally As Crops Languish

Compared with other commodities lately, agriculture markets are still stuck in the doldrums. While gold to oil and copper to iron ore have climbed this...

Egypt Replaces Agriculture Quarantine Head After Wheat Feud

The head of the quarantine office at Egypt’s agriculture ministry was removed in a "restructuring" of several departments, as the world&rsq...

World's Food-Import Bill Just Shrank $9 Billion To Five-Year Low

The world’s food bill just fell $9 billion from a previous estimate as a glut of oil and ships cut transportation costs, adding to an oversupply of e...

EU Said To Meet Sugar Industry To Discuss Possible Supply Crunch

European Union officials met with representatives from the sugar industry to discuss a possible supply crunch as imports may fall short of the bloc’s...

Foodmakers Warn Of Looming EU Sugar Crisis As Supply Drops

The European Union needs to take action to avoid sugar shortages for food- and beverage-makers, according to the Committee of European Sugar Users, a group...

Grain Millers Oppose South African Corn-Import Tariff Review

South Africa’s grain-milling body is opposing a request by the nation’s biggest corn-farmers’ lobby to review a tariff on imports of the...

Best French Wheat Crop In Five Years Puts A Record Harvest In Sight

French wheat is in the best shape in at least five years and farmers have planted more acreage than anytime in the past six decades – evidence that t...