Archie
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Reporting on commodity trading of all stripes 🛢🌾⛏ for @business l Message me on Threema: H3X67A3K
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Joined October 2014
Took a look at the massive battery farms that commodity traders are pouring money into in Europe as renewables put grids under strain and power prices increasingly turn negative. w/@MathisWilliam .
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Three years ago, Castleton Commodities International analysts huddled in their London office to discuss how to make money from a growing phenomenon in the European power market — negative prices.
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RT @JavierBlas: COMMODITY TRADING: Touton SA, based in the French town of Bordeaux, has hired bankers for a potential sale. Touton is a m….
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The move comes after the trader benefited from a historic rally in cocoa.
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After all that - no tariff on copper cathodes imported into the US….
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STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S COPPER INDUSTRY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation to address the effects of copper imports on America’s
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The facility can hold as much as 10 million barrels of oil. In the past, it has been a key storage point for extra oil when there was too much supply, allowing traders to profit by holding oil and selling it later at higher future prices. w/@pburkhardt .
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A Glencore Plc joint venture is buying into Africa’s biggest oil storage site at a time when the market is bracing for an expected oversupply.
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RT @AricToler: On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks nor….
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RT @JavierBlas: COMMODITY TRADING: Vitol handed a record $10.6 billion to its executives and senior staff through share buybacks last year,….
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Vitol Group handed a record $10.6 billion to its executives and senior staff through share buybacks last year, as the fallout of the energy crisis continued to deliver extraordinary riches to the...
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RT @jamesattwood: At least four ships carrying copper are trying to reach US ports before August to get ahead of planned import tariffs on….
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At least four ships carrying copper are trying to reach US ports before August to get ahead of planned import tariffs on the metal.
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Amsbury, known in the tight-knit world of the LME as ‘Disco,’ is the latest veteran of JPMorgan’s metals team to take a high-profile role in the physical trading industry. w/@jfarchy .
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Daniel Amsbury, who spent years as a dominant force on the London Metal Exchange as a trader for JPMorgan Chase & Co., is set to join Trafigura Group, according to people familiar with the matter.
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RT @mjkcongo: A US consortium involving ex-special forces personnel is seeking to acquire Chemaf Resources, a copper and cobalt producer th….
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A US consortium involving ex-special forces personnel is seeking to acquire Chemaf Resources Ltd., a copper and cobalt producer that has become a symbol of the growing competition for mineral deals...
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A US consortium involving ex-special forces personnel is seeking to acquire Chemaf Resources Ltd., a copper and cobalt producer that has become a symbol of the growing competition for mineral deals between the US and China in the DRC @wtbclowes @mjkcongo .
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A US consortium involving ex-special forces personnel is seeking to acquire Chemaf Resources Ltd., a copper and cobalt producer that has become a symbol of the growing competition for mineral deals...
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RT @business: The man who cleaned up Britain's banks is set to reveal his plans to fix the country's wildly unpopular and heavily indebted….
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Jon Cunliffe says there will be no quick fix ahead of his root and branch review of the water sector stretching from shareholders to sewage.
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RT @mjkcongo: A 1,224 page arbitration decision shared with Bloomberg by @PPLAAF contains the 1st-ever testimony from Dan Gertler about his….
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Billionaire Dan Gertler’s confidential arbitration testimony describes how he paid an associate of Congo’s former president, and held shares on behalf of the associate and local partners, at the same...
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RT @jamesattwood: Copper traders racing to get cargoes into the US are looking to shift deliveries into Hawaii and Puerto Rico to cut shipm….
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Copper traders racing to get cargoes into the US are looking to shift deliveries into Hawaii and Puerto Rico to cut shipment times, as Donald Trump’s plan for 50% tariffs threatens to slam the door...
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RT @yongchang_chin: For today’s oil traders, headlines about bombs falling have increasingly become an opportunity to sell. .
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For today’s oil traders, headlines about bombs falling have increasingly become an opportunity to sell.
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Decades-old business models for coffee and cocoa trading have been upended as firms adapt to higher and more volatile prices by moving away from longer-term trades, according to one of the industry’s top bankers. W/@MumbiGitau .
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Decades-old business models for coffee and cocoa trading have been upended as firms adapt to higher and more volatile prices by moving away from longer-term trades, according to one of the industry’s...
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RT @jfarchy: Copper Clash Shows Cracks in Decades-Old Pricing System. @megacontango .
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Canadian miner Teck Resources Ltd. and Japan’s Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. are locked in a commercial dispute over a major copper supply deal, exposing cracks in a decades-old pricing system as the...
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RT @mjkcongo: Can Congo pull off the balancing act of trying to woo Trump’s White House without dislodging critical investment from Beijing….
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In the middle of a trade war, Congo is trying to woo Trump’s White House without risking critical investment from Beijing.
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RT @cangsizhi: The London Metal Exchange’s newly approved warehouses in Hong Kong will thrive thanks to China’s vast metal industry — despi….
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The London Metal Exchange’s newly approved warehouses in Hong Kong will thrive thanks to China’s vast metal industry — despite high costs and a worsening trade war that has unsettled global markets,...
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