One Rock Capital Partners buys the Maxwell House, Gevalia and Tassimo brands as Kraft Heinz sheds a low-margin, shrinking category.
A week after the Federal Reserve's hawkish hold, bond yields and the dollar are climbing while gold retreats from its recent highs — a reversal from the rate-cutting path markets had expected most of the year.
With the year-old truce set to lapse November 10, importers are racing to lock in sourcing decisions without knowing whether tariffs snap back, hold steady, or give way to a new deal.
Europe's largest budget airline says fuel prices tied to the war between the US, Israel and Iran could stay elevated well into 2027, squeezing a carrier built on thin margins.
Attacks on tankers and Saudi infrastructure are keeping a floor under prices even as the eight-month Iran war periodically looks close to cooling.
Both oil majors leaned on downstream refining margins to cushion a third quarter marked by softer upstream prices, with Chevron also booking a legal reserve and an impairment.
A pricier bag of Halloween treats is the latest cost-of-living flashpoint, as manufacturers pass along cocoa contracts locked in during last year's record-high prices.
Greenpeace says it is tracking seven vessels carrying 288,000 tonnes of Russian diesel toward American ports, though it remains unclear whether they will be allowed to unload.
Third-quarter profit rose to $8.46 billion from $2.2 billion a year ago, with BP crediting disrupted Gulf and Russian refineries for pushing diesel margins to record highs.
John Healey's first Budget pairs a one-off energy payment with a higher bank-profits tax, as Britain's growth forecast is downgraded and oil prices stay elevated.
Shanghai's STAR 50 tech index has plunged 40% since June even as Beijing pours state money into AI and robotics, with analysts pointing to thin profit margins, soft consumer demand and the threat of further US tech restrictions.
The all-cash deal adds roughly 266,000 net acres in the oil-rich Montney formation, deepening Ovintiv's bet on one of North America's most active unconventional plays.
Oil has stayed above $100 a barrel for weeks as the conflict involving Iran keeps shipping through the Strait of Hormuz under threat, with Goldman Sachs warning prices could stay elevated through year-end.
Brent crude touched $112 a barrel after strikes on a Saudi airport and oilfield and reported mine hits near the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the U.S. to begin withdrawing some diplomats' families from the region.
Analysts say a chip shortage driven by AI data-centre demand, plus earlier stockpiling, drove the sharpest quarterly decline in years.
Oil climbed roughly 3% as traders weighed the risk of a sustained disruption to Saudi exports following fresh Houthi strikes and Washington's order for some diplomats to leave the kingdom.
Semiconductor and electronics shipments drove third-quarter growth past most economists' estimates, even as property investment keeps sliding.
Brent eased from a high not seen since May after an executive order loosened sanctions tied to Russian energy exports, but tanker attacks near the Strait of Hormuz are keeping a floor under the market.
Jakarta shares extended last week's record plunge Monday as index provider MSCI considers skipping frontier status entirely and reclassifying Indonesia as a standalone market.
Third-quarter growth hit 4.5% as high-tech exports surged, even as a prolonged property downturn and cautious consumers continue to weigh on domestic demand.
The group left targets unchanged for a third straight month, deferring a capacity review that will shape 2027 quotas.
Spot prices are running more than 20% below January's spike as a hawkish Federal Reserve reshapes bets on how high bullion climbs this year.
Brent crude touched $110 a barrel for the first time since May as insurers retreat from the Strait of Hormuz and Kyiv widens its campaign against Russia's fuel supply.
A Guardian investigation ties nickel in automakers' battery supply chains to the loss of indigenous rainforest in Sulawesi, underscoring the industry's struggle to source 'clean' materials responsibly.
UK Maritime Trade Operations data shows 12 vessels struck in a single week, even as regional oil exports slow and Brent crude holds above $100 a barrel.
Precious metals suffered their sharpest selloff in weeks after hotter-than-expected inflation data revived talk of an October rate increase, even as some banks call the pullback a buying opportunity.
Dutch benchmark futures have climbed to their highest since early 2023 as Persian Gulf LNG exports stay crippled, and Goldman Sachs warns prices may need to spike further to ration limited supply.
Brent has held above $100 a barrel for weeks as tanker attacks near the Strait of Hormuz continue, pushing Treasury yields to 24-year highs and testing the Federal Reserve's new, more hawkish stance.
Spot rates on trans-Pacific lanes are still running more than four times pre-crisis levels, but freight analytics firm Xeneta says the surge has topped out and a gradual cooldown — not a collapse — is coming.
Brent crude has stayed above the century mark for weeks as Washington reinforces its naval presence near the Strait of Hormuz and fresh tanker incidents keep traders on edge.
Seven OPEC+ members kept November production at September's level, extending a pause after six months of increases as supply risk from the Middle East keeps crude elevated.
A year-long waiver on Zambia's 10% concentrate export tax lapsed just as a flagship smelter restarted after a maintenance outage that ran six weeks over schedule.
Trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič heads to Beijing for two days of talks aimed at curbing a tenfold surge in Chinese hybrid-car exports, as Germany and France push the EU toward tougher trade defenses.
Manufacturers and defense contractors are securing supply of the critical mineral ahead of a Nov. 27 deadline, when Beijing's year-long suspension of export controls is set to expire.
Governments plan a frontloaded diesel release over the next four months as fighting in Ukraine and the Gulf erodes global refining capacity and pushes pump prices to records.
Seven producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia will carry existing targets into next month as the war between the U.S., Israel and Iran keeps millions of barrels off the market and crude hovers near $100.
Eight producers meet Sunday to decide whether to add more barrels to a market on edge over Strait of Hormuz tanker attacks and collapsing shipping traffic.
Gold is holding near $4,180 an ounce, but it's silver, platinum and palladium posting the sharper gains this week as the 2026 metals rally shows no sign of fading.
A pristine copy of Captain America Comics No. 1 anchored an $18 million haul for a newly surfaced collection.
Benchmark crude has given back most of its war premium as shipping through the world's most important oil chokepoint recovers, forcing Wall Street to walk back triple-digit price forecasts.
Workers at Antofagasta's Centinela mine voted overwhelmingly to strike and BHP's Escondida supervisors wrapped their own rejection vote, keeping supply worries alive in the world's top copper-producing country.
Retail diesel touched an all-time high above $6.50 a gallon last week, pushing Trump toward a export restriction that refiners warn could raise gasoline and jet-fuel prices instead.
Mesabi Metallics plans what the White House calls the largest steel plant in American history, a Lee County, Iowa complex tied to the administration's steel tariffs and backed by billions in federal financing.
With Comex prices near an all-time high, supervisors at BHP's Escondida mine in Chile vote this week on strike action just as tariff-driven flows reshape global metal markets.
A seafarer's death aboard the bulk carrier Cape Dao came as Washington and Tehran reopened indirect UN contacts, with a durable deal to reopen the waterway still unsigned.
A new bilateral trade council and a fledgling AI dialogue emerged from the three-day Washington visit, even as full tariff schedules wait until Monday.
A fatal mudslide in Indonesia, a worker death at the world's largest mine in Chile, and unrelenting AI-driven demand have pushed copper within reach of its 2026 highs.
Brent crude jumped more than 4% Thursday after Saudi air defenses intercepted Houthi missiles and U.S.-Iran talks on reopening the Strait of Hormuz collapsed at the United Nations.
A Boston auction house closed a sale of historical artifacts Thursday night, led by a World War II co-pilot's handwritten account of the Hiroshima bombing.
With China roughly halfway through a pledge to buy 25 million tons of U.S. soybeans, farmers and traders are watching today's meeting for signs the truce holds past its November expiration.
A week after drone strikes shut a key export route, easing supply fears and a conditional offer from Tehran sent crude to its lowest levels in nearly two weeks.
Brent crude fell 3.4% and WTI dropped 4.5% Monday as satellite data showed Saudi Arabia rerouting exports through the Persian Gulf and traders bet the UN General Assembly could bring a diplomatic opening with Tehran.
Brent and WTI fell for a third straight session Friday as Saudi Arabia's ship-to-ship crude workaround around a damaged export pipeline calmed traders, even as prices held above $100 a barrel.
Bullion eased for a third straight week and silver diverged higher, as traders weighed a firmer dollar against falling Treasury yields following the Fed's rate increase.
A drone-damaged pipeline has knocked out Saudi Arabia's main workaround for the blocked Strait of Hormuz, forcing Aramco to cancel European crude cargoes just as Houthi forces seize the Bab el-Mandeb strait.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent plans to meet his Chinese counterpart this weekend as the two governments discuss reducing duties on roughly $30 billion in trade before a Sept. 24 summit.
Freight costs for hauling crude out of the Gulf have surged past all-time highs even as benchmark oil prices eased Wednesday, a widening gap between crude and the cost of shipping it.
Industrial output beat forecasts while retail sales cooled and investment fell further, sharpening the divide between China's factory floor and its households.
The capture of Yemen's Perim Island and a drone strike on a key Saudi pipeline have opened two fronts on the same barrel, even as OPEC+ keeps adding supply.
A delayed Kazatomprom processing plant and rising data-center power demand are keeping the uranium spot price near six-month highs.
Blank sailings are keeping transpacific container rates elevated even as easing port congestion pulls Asia-Europe prices lower.
A rush of U.S.-bound metal ahead of possible tariffs is masking mine outages from Chile to Indonesia that analysts warn could tip the market into an outright deficit.
Riyadh told OPEC its crude production fell to 6.238 million barrels a day in August, undercutting even April's wartime low, as Hormuz tensions and a Houthi blockade choke exports from the Gulf and the Red Sea alike.
The oil major aims to more than double production in its Venezuelan joint ventures to 600,000 barrels a day by 2031, capitalizing on a thaw in U.S.-Venezuela relations.
A weaker dollar snapped bullion's three-day slide, but the bigger driver is a World Gold Council report showing central banks bought gold at the fastest second-quarter pace on record.
Repeated strikes on Saudi Aramco's Jizan refinery and a squeeze on Strait of Hormuz shipping have driven crude to its highest levels since late July, with Goldman Sachs warning prices could top $120 if the disruption persists.
Benchmark copper broke through $14,500 a ton on the London Metal Exchange as anticipated US import tariffs pull metal into American warehouses and mine output falls at Codelco and Freeport-McMoRan.
Escalating US-Iran strikes on oil tankers have pushed war-risk insurance and freight rates to multiples of pre-conflict levels, sending crude to its highest since July.
Brent crude neared $97 a barrel and gasoline hit an all-time Labor Day high after Washington disabled three Iranian tankers and Tehran said it would declare a new restricted zone off the Strait of Hormuz.
Spot gold eased to $4,432 an ounce Friday after a volatile year that has taken the metal from an intraday record above $5,500 to a summer slide and back, with Goldman and J.P. Morgan both lifting price forecasts.
Argentina's president says he will fast-track legislation to punish companies developing the Sea Lion oilfield near the British-held islands, seizing on Trump's wavering support for London.
Renewed U.S.-Iran strikes drove crude nearly 10% higher on the week and pushed U.S. diesel to record prices, as Japan's largest tanker operator warned Hormuz transit may not normalize before year-end.
Arabica prices are near their highest level in months as a deadly Colombian earthquake compounds a supply squeeze already driven by a lagging Brazilian harvest and U.S. tariffs on Brazilian beans.
Bullion is up more than 24% over the past year as investors weigh Middle East risk and growing government debt loads against surging Treasury yields, with central banks still buying at a record pace.
The metal pulled back to $6.44 a pound after touching an all-time high near $6.83, with Chilean output declines and tariff-driven stockpiling still underpinning a historic rally.
A limited-run stainless-steel keg of Heinz ketchup, timed to football season, vanished in minutes and immediately spawned a resale market worth five times face value.
The solar-tracker giant's all-cash purchase of Affordable Wire Management gives it a foothold in the fast-growing battery-storage and datacenter markets it has never served at scale.
The producer group finished unwinding its 1.65-million-barrel voluntary cuts just as renewed U.S.-Iran strikes put fresh risk premium on Gulf shipping.
Bullion fell nearly 3% after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish tone jolted a rally that had put gold on pace for its best month since 1999.
Crude is on pace to snap a two-week winning streak while gold hovers just off its highs, with both commodities waiting on the Fed chair's Jackson Hole speech and a still-unresolved standoff with Iran.
The metal is consolidating below $4,700 as traders weigh new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's cautious early messaging, steady central bank buying and this week's inflation data.
Lawyers for Governor Lisa Cook call the mortgage-fraud allegations behind a second White House removal effort "unfounded and untrue," teeing up a fight over Fed independence weeks before the next rate decision.
WTI drifted toward $80 a barrel and Brent toward $86 as talk of a Strait of Hormuz maritime corridor and softer U.S. sanctions on Iran pulled a geopolitical risk premium out of crude.
Gold touched its highest level in roughly 15 weeks Monday as crude sank toward $85 a barrel — a split that traces to fiscal-policy jitters lifting bullion and new Iran sanctions weighing on oil.
Treasury debt concerns and shifting Fed rate-cut bets have driven the metal to its third straight weekly gain ahead of this week's Jackson Hole symposium.
A last-minute negotiating breakdown has triggered steep new duties on Canadian goods and a retaliatory response set for early September.
Bullion notched a third straight weekly gain after the Treasury moved to double its long-bond buybacks, cooling yields and weakening the dollar.
Brent crude neared $94 a barrel as Washington signaled a harder economic squeeze on Tehran rather than a quick reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
A softer dollar and falling Treasury yields have pushed bullion up more than 3% this week, with silver, platinum and palladium also higher.
Brent and WTI notched their highest closes since late July after Abu Dhabi said it detected Iranian ballistic missiles and suspended commercial ties with Tehran, keeping Strait of Hormuz shipping constrained.
Brent crude pushed toward $92 a barrel and WTI held near three-week highs after the U.S.-Iran negotiating window over the Strait of Hormuz lapsed without a deal, prompting Iraqi and Chinese shippers to route cargo around the chokepoint.
Bullion held above $4,380 an ounce and Brent crude touched $90 a barrel as fading Fed rate-hike bets and a reignited Iran standoff sent traders into both havens and hedges at once.
Brent crude remains stuck in a high band with the Strait of Hormuz still nearly shut, and traders see little chance of a fast diplomatic fix.
A once-dormant 1930s trade statute is being used for the first time to impose 50% duties on Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicles and dozens of other goods, with no exemption under the USMCA.
The Danish shipping giant more than doubled quarterly profit and lifted its full-year guidance again, as Middle East disruption and strong Chinese exports kept ocean freight rates elevated.
A record U.S. inventory build and fresh demand-growth downgrades from the IEA and OPEC snapped a six-session rally, even as the Strait of Hormuz standoff keeps a floor under prices.
Precious metals extended gains this week as cooler inflation data reduced the odds of a September rate hike, even as an unresolved US-Iran standoff kept oil elevated.
The 2-year note yield topped 4.26% and the 30-year approached 5.28% as oil prices jumped ahead of Wednesday's CPI report, pulling Asian equity futures lower.
The Taiwanese chipmaker's monthly revenue accelerated sharply on AI accelerator demand, even as Seoul deepens its own bet on Samsung and SK Hynix to compete for the same boom.
Bullion is up nearly 8% over the past week alone, with Middle East-driven safe-haven buying compounding bets on a softer Federal Reserve.