Tariffs have supercharged turbulence in commodity markets Trading is, by and large, a business that stock markets don’t love. Companies that flip equities, oil or other commodities often end up valued at low multiples of their profit, because investors assume…

It isn’t solid gold — but it’s never been worth more. Athletes stepping onto the Winter Olympic podium in Italy this month are being draped in the most valuable medals in the Games’ modern history thanks to near record-high precious metal prices. Since…

A complex legal dispute unfolding in a US federal court as well as in Swiss jurisdiction over the global titanium trade is beginning to intersect with broader regional dynamics – including Israel’s growing economic alignment with Bahrain and the United…

Labor chose a day when attention was focused on the opposition to slip out a handful of announcements On Friday, as Angus Taylor ascended to the leadership of a riven and defeated political party, the Albanese government slipped out a…

A forum is scheduled to discuss solutions. Kazakhstan has accumulated an estimated 200 million tons of radioactive waste, a staggering environmental legacy tied mainly to decades of uranium mining and military activity, according to reporting from The Times of Central Asia.…

A series of new guidelines aim to standardize and mainstream ESG reporting by Chinese mining companies, but gaps remain. On 1 December 2025, the Chinese Mining Association released two documents to guide mining companies on their environmental, social and governance…

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has expressed interest in cooperating with the U.S. on developing rare-earth minerals off the coast of Japan, an issue that might make the agenda at her mid-March bilateral summit as the allies try…

Technologies for synthesising substitutes or alloys could cut time required to secure critical materials to just a few years. The route to challenging China’s supremacy in rare earth minerals lies in using artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing to create synthetic substitutes or alloys,…