Commodities

Vietnam’s 2026/27 robusta coffee crop could see a slight increase in output, though the threat posed by this year’s El Niño should not be underestimated, Thai Nhu Hiep, vice chairman of the Vietnam Coffee-Cocoa Association, told Reuters.

Nearly half of the 2,727 overall rare earth exploration applications in Brazil were made by subsidiaries of foreign mining companies.

Investors, food companies and commodities traders, driven by fears that the El Niño climate event could hurt global sugar production, drove record-high open interest in sugar contracts last week, the Intercontinental Exchange said on Wednesday.

Data centres in Ontario will need to cover all their energy costs and could pay more for electricity than other industrial users, the government said Thursday as it faces mounting pressure from local lawmakers to bring in guardrails around the facilities powering the artificial intelligence boom.

U.S. farmers will harvest their second-largest corn crop on record this autumn as lower yields caused by adverse summer weather were more than offset by larger plantings, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.

Expand Energy said on Monday it would buy privately held natural gas marketer Twin Eagle Holdings from Five Point Infrastructure for US$1.25 billion to expand its marketing business across North America.

Lundin Mining Corp. says it has suspended operations at its Caserones mine complex due to heavy snowfall which has disrupted power at the site in Chile’s Atacama region.

The U.K. has nationalized British Steel to protect the nation’s steelmaking capacity after the Chinese owners moved to shut the plant’s blast furnaces.

LNG Canada has reached an agreement with five First Nations in northern B.C., giving them the option to invest up to $1 billion in the project's proposed second phase.

El Niño could cut Brazil’s expected record harvest by up to a fifth, according to the Brazilian Coffee Industry Association (Abic), as excessive heat and irregular rainfall threaten production.

Alberta’s pitch to the major projects office for a new oil pipeline to the West Coast is being billed as a public-private partnership, though its current structure skews almost entirely toward the public end of the spectrum.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announce a preferred route and interested parties for a new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast.

It’s the Alberta government’s self-imposed deadline to submit its proposal for a new West Coast oil pipeline to the federal major projects office.

Middle East producers are pushing ahead with oil and liquefied natural gas loading despite fresh ship attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and renewed strikes between the U.S. and Iran in recent days, shipping data showed.

Railway exports of liquefied petroleum gases from the Canadian production hub of Edmonton, Alberta, to refining and trading centres in the United States are unusually high this summer due to strong demand from motor fuel blenders, according to storage broker The Tank Tiger.