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Metal

Gold Price Tops $4,500 for First Time

Gold prices reached new record levels on Wednesday as investors sought safe-haven assets amid ongoing geopolitical uncertainties, including tensions related to …

Belgium

EU Wheat Exports Slightly Lag Last Season in 2025/26

As of December 21, 2025, soft wheat exports from European Union countries since the beginning of the 2025/26 marketing year have reached approximately 10.8 mill…

India

Adani Ports Completes Acquisition of NQXT Australia

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited has successfully completed the acquisition of 100 per cent interest in NQXT Australia. The transaction received al…

Wind Turbine

Vestas Secures Seven Wind Turbine Orders for 273MW Capacity in Germany

Vestas has secured seven new wind turbine orders totaling 273 megawatts for projects located in various regions of Germany. The company booked these orders duri…

India

Stonepeak, CPPIB Look to Buy Castrol India Shares at Premium Following BP Deal

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and U.S. private equity firm Stonepeak announced on Wednesday that they will launch an open offer to acquire up to …

United States

Nvidia, Joining Big Tech Deal Spree, to License Groq Technology, Hire Executives

Nvidia has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with artificial intelligence startup Groq to use Groq's chip technology focused on AI inference,…

Nuclear Power Plant (NPP)

Russia Plans a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon Within a Decade

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos announced plans to construct a lunar power plant by 2036. The agency has signed a contract with the Lavochkin Ass…

LNG

Malaysia’s Petronas Signs LNG Supply Deal With China’s CNOOC

Malaysian state-owned energy company Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) announced on Wednesday that it will supply Chinese offshore oil and gas company CNOOC …

Metal

Argentina’s Tax Break Program Approves $665M Gold Mine Project

Argentina's RIGI tax break scheme committee has approved a $665 million gold and silver mining project in the western San Juan province, Economy Minister Lu…

Japan

UBE Mitsubishi Cement to Halt Kiln at Kyushu Plant by 2027

Mitsubishi Materials has announced that its 50:50 equity-method affiliate, UBE Mitsubishi Cement Corporation, formed with UBE Corporation, has approved a reorga…

United States

John Deere Agrees to Buy US Construction Tech Firm Tenna

Deere & Company (John Deere) has entered into an agreement to acquire Tenna, a US-based construction technology company, for an undisclosed amount. The announce…

Metal

Japan to Test Rare-Earth Mining From Deep Seabed Mud

Japan will conduct a month-long test to extract rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed near Minamitorishima Island, a remote location about 1,900 kilometres s…

Brazil

Hanseatic Global Terminals to Develop New Brazil Hub

Hanseatic Global Terminals (HGT) has signed an agreement with Imetame Group to acquire a 50 per cent stake in Imetame Logística Porto (ILP), a joint vent…

Austria

Borealis Partners With Bluealp to Advance Chemical Recycling

Borealis Group, based in Vienna, Austria, has entered into a strategic partnership with BlueAlp, a chemical recycling technology provider headquartered in Eindh…

China

ByteDance Signals Major AI Infrastructure Push With $23BN Investment Plan

ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok, has outlined preliminary plans for capital expenditure of approximately 160 billion yuan (about $23 billi…