The ongoing outages at Finland's OL3 and Sweden's Ringhals 4 nuclear reactors were extended on Thursday, operators TVO and Vattenfall said in market messages on power bourse Nord Pool, pushing up electricity prices at a time of high demand.
Chicago wheat futures rose for a third day on Thursday and were poised for their biggest monthly gain since June as traders covered short positions ahead of weekly U.S. export sales data.
Japanese government bond (JGB) yields rebounded on Thursday after falling to multi-month lows this week, after an auction for the two-year JGB saw some of the weakest demand in over a decade.
Australian copper miner Sandfire said on Thursday it had damaged Aboriginal cultural heritage at a copper mine in Western Australia, and has informed traditional owners and the state's heritage regulator.
ABB expects to increase its annual sales by a total of 6% to 9% each year from 2024, the Swiss engineering group said on Thursday, becoming the latest European industrial company to unveil more ambitious targets.
Yields on two-year paper are down 31 bps just this week, the steepest drop since the U.S. mini-banking crisis in March. And almost all of that came because one Fed governor said that, should inflation keep falling for a few months, then policy would need to be loosened just to stop real rates from rising.
Imperial Oil said a partial power outage on Wednesday afternoon resulted in emissions from the boiler stack at its Sarnia, Canada plant, according to a community alert.
Pension fund AustralianSuper has become a substantial stakeholder in Pilbara Minerals, with a 5.10% holding in the lithium miner, an exchange filing showed on Thursday.
Henry Kissinger, a diplomatic powerhouse whose roles as a
national security adviser and secretary of state under two
presidents left an indelible mark on U.S. foreign policy and
earned him a controversial Nobel Peace Prize, died on Wednesday
at age 100.
India's Tata Technologies jumped as much as 180% in its trading debut on Thursday, valuing the first Tata Group company to go public in nearly two decades at 567.94 billion rupees ($6.8 billion).
Countries at the U.N.'s COP28 climate summit opening on Thursday hope to clinch an early deal on a new fund to pay for climate-caused damage, aiming to muster some political goodwill before talks turn to divisive topics including the future of fossil fuels.
Illegal chemical weapons attacks killed and injured thousands during Syria's civil war, many of them children, but more than a decade later the perpetrators go unpunished.
Oil was little changed on Thursday as investors remained cautious ahead of expected production cuts by the OPEC+ group and as weaker-than-expected Chinese factory data underscored slowing growth in the world's second largest economy.
Babar Azam has relinquished the captaincy but he remains the cornerstone of Pakistan's batting, test skipper Shan Masood said ahead of their tour of Australia.
Australia is within "striking distance" of its U.N. emissions reduction goals thanks to a raft of new decarbonisation policies, energy minister Chris Bowen said on Thursday as he prepared to travel to Dubai for the COP28 climate summit.
A $10.6 billion takeover saga in Australia has put the spotlight on the country's largest pension fund and its rare shareholder activism which, dealmakers said, could spur peers to play 'king makers' in corporate deals amid growing pressure on returns.