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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    ExxonMobil
    German asset manager divests Exxon shares over ‘insufficient’ climate commitment

    Union Investment sold out of US oil major and smaller peer EOG Resources after review

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
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    Bidders for BP’s Castrol weigh offers below expected $8bn valuation

    China’s Citic shows interest in sale that is core plank of FTSE 100 group’s push to raise $20bn

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
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    US Steel workers see hope of job security in deal with Japan’s Nippon

    Many factory workers have put faith in Donald Trump and broken with their union over support for tie-up

    Attendees hold signs reading ‘Steel Jobs = Real Jobs’ and ‘Thank You President Trump!’ with the US Steel logo and American flag motifs. People in the crowd are wearing hard hats and orange work attire
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump’s steel tariffs prompt anger and warnings of ‘catastrophic’ job cuts in Canada

    50% levy would disrupt factories and supply chains in America’s biggest foreign supplier of the metal

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Anglo American PLC
    Anglo American’s $11bn platinum spin-off makes London market debut

    Demerger marks significant milestone for corporate overhaul and refocus on copper and iron ore

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
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    How to break China’s stranglehold on critical minerals Premium content

    One potential fix is using AI to cut extraction costs

    A large mining machine is operating at the Bayan Obo mine in Inner Mongolia, China
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump says he will double steel and aluminium tariffs to 50%

    US president escalates global trade war two days after a court ruled against the legality of his levies

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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
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    Fast-tracking the return of more idled capacity could push global prices down further

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
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    US company benefits from double subsidy on biofuels as surge in imports threatens to wipe UK ethanol industry

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
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    How cheap steel endangers Europe’s defence build-up

    Without its own industry, the continent will be forced to depend on foreign firms that could cut off supplies

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
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    Saudi Arabia to ‘take stock’ of spending after oil price drop

    Finance minister tells FT the kingdom’s priority is to avoid long-running ‘trap of booms and busts’

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
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    Data centres remain troublingly reliant on Chinese lithium Premium content

    There is precedent for using critical materials as geopolitical leverage

  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
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    US government will not renew Chevron’s Venezuela oil licence

    Trump administration hardens stance on President Nicolás Maduro despite lobbying from the company

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  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
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    Nigeria’s shock therapy

    Citizens have yet to feel the benefit of economic reform, but Bola Tinubu should press on

    Nigerian President Bola Tinubu
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
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    UK bioethanol factories face closure after Trump trade deal

    British state support needed to prevent loss of production facilities after tariff changes, industry warns

    Vivergo Fuels’ bioethanol plant in Saltend, near Hull
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
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    US Supreme Court clears way for Rio Tinto’s Resolution copper mine

    The project, jointly owned with BHP, would eventually meet a quarter of US needs for the metal

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  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
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  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
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    ExxonMobil and Chevron to do battle over $1tn oilfields in Guyana

    Dispute over stake in Hess’s Stabroek oilfield has implications for joint operating agreements between companies

  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
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    Zijin Mining subsidiary aims to offer payments to other mines to secure more supplies at a time of skyrocketing prices

  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
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    Oil chiefs warn of end to US shale boom

    Companies cut spending and idle their drilling rigs despite Donald Trump’s pledge to ‘unleash’ production

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  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    Thermal coal prices hit 4-year low amid supply glut

    Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 sparked bull market but subsequent output surge now weighs down on prices

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  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
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    JBS says shareholders approve US listing for world’s largest meatpacker

    Green light overcomes opposition from environmental and governance advocates

    A worker spreads salted meat which will be dried and then packed at a plant of JBS
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Moral Money
    Can satellites keep companies honest on emissions? Premium content

    Academics argue governments should use satellite data to hold companies accountable for pollution

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  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
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    Reform UK promises North Sea licences for taxpayer stakes in oil projects

    Richard Tice pledges ‘day one’ reversal of net zero policies if his party wins next general election

    Richard Tice
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    How the US plans to break China’s stranglehold on lithium

    New technology that extracts the metal from underground brines has been compared to the shale revolution

    Montage of images showing the Standard Lithium extraction plant in southern Arkansas, a locator map and a hand holding a lithium rich rock
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