Commodities

SINGAPORE (Feb 28): Lenders including ING Bank NV have accused a Singapore commodities firm of fraud after it defaulted on debt and left the financiers facing potential losses on hundreds of millio

SINGAPORE (Feb 5): Oil sellers are looking for alternative buyers in Asia for prompt cargoes as Chinese demand dries up because of the coronavirus and some customers ask to defer purchases.

SINGAPORE (Feb 4): Citigroup Inc slashed its price forecasts for commodities from oil to copper and iron ore as it said the impact of the coronavirus looks much worse than it initially thought.

(Jan 31): BlackRock Inc, the world’s largest asset manager, says it will cut exposure to companies linked to thermal coal, among other climate-friendly measures. It’s a powerful signal.

SINGAPORE (Dec 23): China isn’t cutting back on consumption of the most-polluting fossil fuel just yet, but it is set to reduce imports.

Persistently low crude oil prices have hampered upstream and midstream activity. This has been worsened by the increasing emphasis on sustainability and decarbonisation.

SINGAPORE (Dec 2): Year to date, the Straits Times Index has climbed 4.8% to close at 3,215.53 points on Nov 27.

(Nov 10): ICBC Standard Bank, a venture between the biggest lenders in China and Africa, will close its base metals and equities businesses because of poor performance and difficult market conditio

(Aug 22): Asia's cocoa industry is scouring for ways to boost local bean supplies as the region's chocoholics munch through more candy than ever.

(June 26): Fund managers aren’t the only ones feeling the tailwind from gold’s rally to a six-year high.