Author name: Commodities Market Writer

KKR & Co. and Energy Capital Partners have sweetened their bid for DCC Plc to more than £5.7 billion ($7.7 billion) and bought extra time to complete what’s become a drawn-out takeover process.

HSBC Holdings Plc. raised Indian equities to neutral citing receding risks to earnings from oil prices and strong domestic consumption, reflecting strengthening confidence in the nation’s stock market.

China’s rare earth export curbs could put $6.5 trillion of downstream production outside the country at risk each year if fully implemented, the International Energy Agency warned in a report on rare earths and critical minerals.

Nickel climbed to a three-week high as expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes faded, while uncertainty over mining policy in top producer Indonesia clouded the supply outlook.

Asset manager Fidelity International Ltd. plans at some point to add back gold positions that it cut earlier this year, confident that bullion’s long-term drivers remain intact.

Syngenta Group’s planned $5 billion Hong Kong initial public offering is facing delays as the seed and pesticide company waits for better conditions in the agriculture sector, according to people familiar with the matter.

Asian liquefied natural gas prices rose to the highest since late March as fresh hostilities in the Middle East deepened concerns that shipping through the key Strait of Hormuz will remain disrupted for longer.