Market Analysis

Is China about to weaponise its global dominance of rare earths production in an escalation of the trade dispute with the United States?

With euro zone growth faltering again, markets are debating what else the European Central Bank can do to shore up the economy.

How's this for a study in contrasts: One of the world's biggest coal miners effectively says the industry is dying just days after Australia's opposition party suffered a shock election loss, partly blamed on its failure to unambiguously back a new coal mine.

It looks more and more as if Theresa May's premiership is effectively over, with the only suspense now over when she will announce the date of her departure.

Investors are on edge on the eve of elections to the European Parliament as they weigh the chances of eurosceptic groups grabbing a third of seats, a level at which analysts say they could stir more trouble for governments and the economy.

British utility stocks are trading at a growing discount to euro zone peers as investors fear the country's deepening political crisis could trigger a general election that ushers in renationalisation of the industry, worth $76 billion (£59.9 billion).

While iron ore prices have surged to a five-year high above $100 a tonne, not all producers of the steel-making ingredient are sharing in the bounty.

U.S. farmers should be close to wrapping up corn planting by now, but persistent wet weather has limited that progress to just shy of halfway by Sunday, the slowest in 40 years of records.

A spate of farmer defaults in Brazil's top grain-producing state is creating headaches for global traders who are among their main creditors and posing challenges to the widespread use of barter in the world's largest soybean exporter.