U.S. soybean meal exports are well on their way to new highs this season with big weekly sales volumes rolling in after a terrifically bad soybean harvest in top soymeal supplier Argentina earlier this year.
China Southern Airlines reported on Friday its first quarterly profit in more than three years, as a pickup in international flights complemented a recovery in its home market.
Four vessels left Ukrainian Black Sea ports in the Odesa region on Friday as shipping via a new export corridor resumed after a three day pause, independent transport sector consultancy STC said.
Malaysian palm oil rose for a third consecutive session on Friday, with strength in China's edible oil market supporting prices, although lacklustre demand for the tropical product limited the upside potential in prices.
Chicago corn and soybeans edged up on Friday, with a sharp rise in crude oil and some improved signs for U.S. exports helping counter supply pressure from the U.S. harvest and South American planting.
Copper prices clawed higher on Friday on some upbeat signs of recovery in top metals consumer China and as speculators reacted to bullish short-term technical signals.
Indonesia's August palm oil exports, including refined products, stood at 2.07 million metric tons, down 55% from the same month last year, association GAPKI said in a statement on Friday.
Indonesia on Friday flew its first commercial flight using palm oil-blended jet fuel, as the world's biggest producer of the commodity pushes for wider use of biofuels to cut fuel imports.
The Australian Federation of Pilots (AFAP) said on Friday it has advised an unit of Qantas Airways it will stop work on Wednesday to Thursday next week in a bid to negotiate wages.
Ukraine's grain exports have fallen to 8.72 million metric tons so far in the 2023/24 July-June marketing season, agriculture ministry data showed on Friday.
Nickel prices reversed course to recoup early losses on Friday, but were set for their biggest weekly decline in a month, pressured by a surplus in the global market.
French farmers had harvested 85% of this year's grain maize crop by Oct. 23, compared with 74% a week earlier, farm office FranceAgriMer said on Friday.
Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart-controlled Hancock Prospecting has taken an 18% stake in Azure Minerals, it said on Friday, potentially hindering Chile's SQM to take full control of the lithium developer.
British Airways-owner IAG and Air France-KLM shares fell sharply on Friday, with Air France-KLM reaching all-time lows, as investors feared weak outlooks despite record quarterly profits.
Sri Lanka's apparel export earnings slumped by $900 million in the first nine months this year, an industry association said on Friday, as slowing global demand undermines a mainstay of the struggling South Asian country's economy.
Airline group Air France-KLM on Friday reported its highest third quarter operating profit ever at 1.3 billion euros ($1.37 billion), in line with analysts' consensus, driven by strong summer demand.
Air China's Hong Kong-listed shares rose almost 6% on Friday, their biggest jump in four months, after the flagship carrier reported its first quarterly profit in nearly four years.
India's blue-chip stocks rose on Friday after logging losses for the past six sessions, after U.S. treasury yields retreated following weaker-than-expected inflation data, easing some rate-related worries.
Fierce rivals Shein and PDD Holdings-owned Temu have applied to end their legal fights with each other in the U.S., documents show, marking a truce even as a global market share battle between the low-price online platforms heats up.