The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Tuesday December 18.

Since its merger with Xstrata, Glencore - previously a trading and marketing firm - has become a mining firm whose earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization is dominated by earnings from its industrial activities. The recent appointment of Peter Freyberg as head of the company’s industrial mining assets, a newly created position with oversight and responsibility for all Glencore industrial mining assets, underscores that.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Thursday December 13.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Wednesday December 12.

TradeCloud is set to give its users the opportunity to report business concluded on the platform to Fastmarkets automatically, according to the former’s chief executive officer.

Brazilian miner Vale will be investing an additional $500 million in VNC, its nickel operations in the South Pacific country of New Caledonia on expectations of increased demand from rising electric vehicle (EV) output, chief executive officer Fabio Schvartsman said on Tuesday December 4.

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed in the morning of Wednesday December 5, with zinc and copper up by 0.4% and 0.3% respectively, while the rest of the complex was little changed or weaker.

China Molybdenum Co will take direct control of metals trader IXM in a $495-million buyout of a fund it set up to originally purchase the firm from Louis Dreyfus, according to a notice issued on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday December 4.

Some progress at the Group of Twenty (G20) summit on US-China trade has given the three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange a boost, up by an average of 1.4%.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday November 30.