Clariant
Daya Bay, China – October 21, 2025 – Clariant (SIX: CLN), a global leader in specialty chemicals, is poised to significantly bolster the global supply of advanced, halogen-free flame retardants with a strategic CHF 100 million (approximately $126 million) investment in its Daya Bay facility in China. This substantial expansion, which saw
China
October 20, 2025 - Five years after China's Communist Party convened a landmark meeting to chart its economic future, the indelible impact of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) is more apparent than ever. In October 2020, amidst the throes of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the escalating trade
Trump
Washington D.C. – October 17, 2025 – Global financial markets breathed a collective sigh of relief today as former President Donald Trump's latest comments regarding proposed tariffs on China offered a glimmer of de-escalation, prompting a modest rebound in key U.S. stock indices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Gold
New York, NY – October 17, 2025 – The global financial markets have once again been gripped by the unpredictable currents of geopolitics, with gold prices experiencing a dramatic surge to unprecedented record highs earlier this week, only to see a cautious stabilization in the wake of shifting rhetoric from former President
China
October 16, 2025 – China has significantly escalated its rare-earth restrictions, implementing its most extensive controls to date on these critical minerals and related technologies. These measures, which took full effect on October 9, 2025, are widely seen as a direct counter to ongoing US actions aimed at curbing China'
Guinea
Guinea, the world's second-largest bauxite producer, has once again demonstrated its formidable resilience in the global commodity market. Despite navigating a complex web of operational and regulatory challenges, the West African nation reported a remarkable 23% year-on-year surge in bauxite exports during the third quarter of 2025. This
Copper
The global copper market is currently witnessing an unprecedented surge in exports from Chinese smelters, a phenomenon driven primarily by lucrative arbitrage opportunities stemming from disparate pricing dynamics between international and domestic markets. This "rare export avalanche," as highlighted by reports from Discovery Alert, is fundamentally reshaping global
China
As the global economy grapples with persistent inflation, China finds itself in a starkly different predicament, battling a deepening deflationary spiral. With the official September 2025 inflation data set for release on October 15th, 2025, markets are anxiously awaiting confirmation of whether the world's second-largest economy is sliding
Boeing
New York, NY – October 14, 2025 – Aerospace giant Boeing (NYSE: BA) found itself at the bottom of the Dow Jones Industrial Average today, as renewed and intensifying trade tensions between the United States and China sent ripples of uncertainty through global markets. While a fleeting pre-market surge on October 13
China
China's iron ore demand has surged to unprecedented levels in 2025, defying some expectations and significantly reshaping global commodity markets. This robust appetite, driven by strategic infrastructure investments and seasonal stockpiling rather rather than the struggling property sector, has led to record import volumes. The immediate implications include
China
As of October 13, 2025, China's import landscape for crucial commodities presents a complex picture of divergent trends, sending mixed signals across global markets. While the nation's robust demand for iron ore and copper has driven imports of these industrial staples to significant highs, coal imports
China
Beijing has significantly escalated its control over rare earth exports, implementing stricter regulations that extend beyond raw materials to encompass advanced processing technologies. These new measures, announced by China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on October 9, 2025, are poised to send profound ripple effects across global supply chains,