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Amazon shipping route for Brazilian soy disrupted by protests, poor roads
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO, April 4 (Reuters) - Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest, worrying global companies including Cargill and Bunge BG.N which have important opera...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
ICE canola futures fall, finish higher for the week
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 4 (Reuters) - ICE canola futures fell on Friday but finished with a small weekly gain after a tumultuous week.• May canola RSK5 settled down $13.90 at $622 per metric ton. July RSN5 showed similar weakness, while November RSX5 fell $10.60 to $615.20 per ton, reducing the ol...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
US Gulf soy prices hit 4-1/2-year lows after China raises tariffs
By Karl Plume CHICAGO, April 4 (Reuters) - Cash soybean prices at U.S. Gulf Coast export terminals plunged to their lowest since September 2020 on Friday after China slapped steep tariffs on imports from the United States in response to retaliatory duties ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump. T...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
CANADA-CRUDE-Western Canada Select heavy crude discount enters sub-$9 territory
April 4 (Reuters) - The discount of Western Canada Select (WCS) heavy crude to the North American benchmark West Texas Intermediate futures (WTI) CLc1 continued to narrow on Friday, dipping into sub-$9 territory as global oil prices fell to pandemic levels. WCS for May delivery in Hardisty, Albe...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
Maxeon Solar to set up alternative supply chains amid tariff turmoil
April 4 (Reuters) - Renewable energy company Maxeon Solar Technologies MAXN.O said on Friday it would establish alternative manufacturing and supply chains as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.Shares of the company were up 4.6% in trading after the bell.The move comes am...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
GRAINS-'Out of the ball game': US soy futures sink after top-buyer China hikes tariffs
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. soybean futures sank 3.4% on Friday to their lowest this year, after top importer China said it would impose additional tariffs of 34% on all American goods in retaliation against duties announced by President Donald Trump.The levies threaten to h...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
Mexico reports first human case of H5N1 bird flu
MEXICO CITY, April 4 (Reuters) - Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday. The infection was confirmed on Tuesday in a three-year-old girl living in the northern state of Durango, who remains hospitalized in serious ...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
US Cash Crude-Grades mixed as oil rig count rises, Trump tariffs weigh
April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. cash crude grades pulled in different directions on Friday, dealers said, as investors weighed an expected future rise in U.S. oil output, and trade tariffs. U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating for a second week in a row, even as ...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
Oil dives 7% to lowest in over 3 years on China's tariffs
Brent closes at lowest since August 2021Oil posts biggest weekly decline since 2023China announces retaliatory tariffs on USOPEC+ unexpectedly speeds up oil output hikesRussian court rules not to suspend Caspian pipeline export terminalBy Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Oil pri...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
CBOT wheat settles weaker as China retaliates against US tariffs
April 4 (Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures closed lower on Friday as China imposed extra levies of 34% on all U.S. goods, deepening the trade war between the world's two biggest economies, analysts said.China has not recently been buying U.S. wheat, though tit-for-tat tariffs have ...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
FACTBOX-US offshore wind farm projects slow as Trump opposition adds to hurdles
April 4 (Reuters) - Energy firms have slowed construction of offshore wind farms in the U.S. for various reasons in recent years, including, most recently, opposition from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration. Offshore wind was a key pillar of former President Joe Biden's promise tha...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
CBOT soybeans hit 2025 low after top buyer China raises tariffs
CHICAGO, April 4 (Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures tumbled on Friday on expectations that increased Chinese tariffs will kill chances for the U.S. to make sales to the world's top importer of the oilseed, analysts said.Beijing announced extra levies of 34% on all U.S. goods. Its...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
April 4 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Friday: ** A New Zealand regulator on Friday said it was investigating Canadian billionaire James Grenon's acquisition of a stake in media firm NZME NZM.NZ, citing a "reasonable possi...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
CBOT corn ends higher, avoids hit from increased Chinese tariffs
CHICAGO, April 4 (Reuters) - Chicago Board of Trade corn futures finished slightly higher in old-crop contracts on Friday as increased Chinese tariffs are not expected to have a major impact on U.S. exports of the grain, analysts said.CBOT May corn CK25 closed up 2-3/4 cents at $4.60-1/4 a bushel.Ch...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
COMMODITIES-Oil sinks to pandemic lows; metals, soybeans slump as China retaliates
By Anna Hirtenstein and Karl Plume LONDON/CHICAGO April 4 (Reuters) - Oil prices plunged nearly 8% on Friday to the lowest level since 2021, while copper, soybeans and other commodities also fell as China retaliated against U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive tariffs.Safe-haven gold was ...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
China hits back at US tariffs with export controls on key rare earths
Rare earth magnets to be covered by export controlsExport controls cover all countries, not just USManufacturers scrambling for access outside ChinaChina's move seen as opening salvo in U.S. trade spatBy Lewis Jackson, Amy Lv, Eric Onstad and Ernest Scheyder BEIJING/LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) ...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
Panama Canal to open bidding for LPG pipeline, authority says
By Marianna Parraga April 4 (Reuters) - The Panama Canal has authorized the opening of a bidding process for a new pipeline that will transport liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) across the interoceanic waterway, its authority said on Friday.Since Panama's Supreme Court last year ruled the return ...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
US natgas prices drop 7% on reduced flows to LNG export plants, lower demand forecasts
US gas output on track to drop from record high in MarchUS LNG export feedgas on track to drop from record high in MarchUS gas inventories on track for rare build in MarchBy Scott DiSavinoApril 4 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures dropped about 7% to a five-week low on Friday on a decline in daily...Reuters
Fri, Apr 4
