Explore the challenges faced by Venezuela's aluminium industry and its impact on global markets despite production potential.

Discover the importance of copper in the Middle East in the context of energy transition and changing market conditions.

Explore Brazil's construction sector trends influenced by housing programs and urban infrastructure investments.

Learn about the impact of national security concerns on Chinese tungsten prices and the challenges facing exporters in 2025.

Since late December 2025 and into January 2026, Russia has deliberately targeted Ukraine’s vegetable oil sector through a concentrated series of systematic attacks aimed at disrupting the segment as an integrated system, which, along with other factors, has led to increases in delivered vegoil prices to their highest levels in the last few years. In particular, the sunoil FOB six ports price has been driven to its highest level since August 2022, Fastmarkets analyses showed.

The EU ETS reform, including the phase-out of free allocations, is set to significantly increase emissions costs for EU industrial producers, with effective EUA prices rising sharply by 2035, driving substantial cost pressures and price increases across key sectors like steel, aluminium, and downstream industries such as automotive and construction.

Learn how Mexico's tariff package on imported goods impacts the Latin American steel market in 2026 and beyond.

Understand how changing demand and costs are reshaping the iron ore trade flows across global markets in 2026.

Discover the potential effects of US actions on Latin American steel, particularly in Brazil and Mexico amidst trade tensions.

Explore the role of DRC Gecamines in copper mining and its collaboration with Mercuria to strengthen international supply.