Commodities

The Federal Reserve’s monetary-easing campaign for 2024 may already be over as the strong labor report Friday underscores the stubborn resilience of the world’s largest economy, according to Wall Street veteran Ed Yardeni.

Shares of Arcadium Lithium Plc jumped after a report said Rio Tinto Plc is in talks to buy the smaller miner.

Rivian Automotive Inc. has applied for a federal loan to fund construction of a new electric vehicle plant in Georgia, a project that had stalled after a cash crunch and change in strategy.

A once-wealthy JPMorgan Chase & Co. client whose portfolio crumbled as he slid into dementia lost a legal battle seeking to recoup his fortune from the bank.

Hundreds of Ghanaians have called on their government to clamp down on illegal mining in Africa’s top gold producer in a second day of protests.

Oil prices are on track for their most significant weekly surge in nearly two years, driven by fears that Israel may launch strikes on Iranian oil infrastructure in retaliation for a missile attack on its territory.

President Joe Biden sought to discourage Israel from attacking Iran’s oil fields, even as he said the country has the right to respond after Tehran’s ballistic-missile barrage earlier this week.

Brussels delayed a plan to ban a wide swath of diesel cars from the capital of the European Union amid a wider backlash against climate measures.

Shares of precious metals miner Coeur Mining Inc. tumbled after the company said it entered a deal to acquire SilverCrest Metals Inc. for a value of $1.7 billion at a time when silver prices have been surging.

The US Supreme Court refused for now to halt a Biden administration crackdown on planet-warming methane emissions from oil wells, tanks and pipelines.

The European Union unleashed one of its most powerful economic tools on China, imposing tariffs on electric vehicles in a move that increases the risk of retaliatory measures and backfiring on domestic consumers and companies.

A key spread between the two most-active raw sugar futures contracts widened this week as an expected slowdown in exports from the world’s top supplier Brazil is seen keeping markets tight in the short term.

South Africa’s $1.9 billion citrus-export industry, the world’s biggest after Spain, faces a new disease threat amid an ongoing dispute with the European Union over fungal infections.

Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S expects the industry’s global regulator next year to approve a charge on vessels’ greenhouse gas emissions.

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. will close its only soybean crushing facility in Iowa for several weeks at a time when farmers are harvesting a record crop.