The producer price index, which measures the costs of goods traded between companies, rose 2.3% from the previous year to 122.6. Read more
Mitsubishi announced a ¥13.8 billion loss “in its Chinese trading business” in its quarterly earnings in November. Read more
The organization is aiming to ensure wage increases exceed the rate of inflation. Read more
Japan’s experience reducing its dependence on China shows that rare earths projects take longer and are more expensive than initially expected. Read more
China, the world's top processor of rare earths, banned the export of technology to make rare earth magnets on Thursday, adding it to a ban already in place on technology to extract and... Read more
China is in the midst of a breakneck expansion of its copper industry that’s reshaping global flows of the essential metal for the world’s energy transition. Read more
Zaporizhstal, a Soviet-era steel plant in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, has managed so far to keep running in defiance of staff shortages, blocked exports, power blackouts and... Read more
I confess: I’m a Star Trek nerd — and commodities enthusiast, too. Read more
As weakness in the yen looks set to continue into next year, prospects for gold priced in the Japanese currency have rarely looked so good. Japanese investors with exposure to yen-denominate... Read more
