Author name: Commodities Market Writer

IFM Investors is nearing a 50% holding in Australia-listed toll road operator Atlas Arteria Ltd., ahead of the Thursday night deadline on its takeover bid.

Taiwan’s locals are borrowing so much to invest in the TSMC-fueled AI stock frenzy it’s raising fears of a bubble.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked for public input on both perpetual contracts and 24/7 trading for traditional energy derivatives, after industry heavyweights raised concerns about offshore platforms and excessive levels of risk.

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China is taking another step in its longstanding push to build a more global currency, bringing its domestic and offshore yuan markets a little closer together.

Currency traders are on high alert for intervention after further weakness in the yen and reports of an online meeting between Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Japan’s army of retail currency traders have heeded their government’s warning and stopped betting on the yen to decline, putting them at odds with professional investors positioning for further weakness.

Brazil’s largest pension fund will no longer seek to control selection of Vale SA’s chairperson and wants the iron ore miner to be overseen by an independent board leader.