commodities
World’s Most Powerful Precious Metal Traders Upset to Learn They Bought Piles of Worthless Rocks
Stores of nickel held in a Dutch warehouse keep turning out to be piles of stone.
Trump Has Now Picked Two Goldman Sachs Execs for Top Posts
On Friday, the president-elect offered Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn a job running the National Economic Council, where he'd advise Trump on US and global economic policy matters.
The hunt for wild ginseng in Appalachia's semilegal and highly lucrative marketc
The first rule of ginseng club is you don’t talk about ginseng club
Oil and Lava
The destiny of Ecuador, a small country with outsize ambitions, now depends overwhelmingly on a commodity price it cannot control.
Colombian Cocaine Farmers Are in Love with The Cocoa
The spike in cocoa price is so pronounced that some farmers are getting out of the profitable but deadly coca game.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is Now Finalized, but You Can't Read It Quite Yet
The shroud of secrecy surrounding Obama's 12-country trade deal won't be removed for quite some time.
Why Did the Australian Sharemarket Lose So Much Money Tuesday?
Swiss mining giant Glencore lost a third of its value, stripping $56 billion AUD from the resource-depend Australian market.
Peru's New Cocaine
Some analysts think illegal gold in Peru may be more important — and more dangerous — than cocaine.
Peru’s New Cocaine
Illegal gold mining—farmers digging up ore and selling it on the black market, so that it may eventually end up wrapped around your fiancée’s finger—is a major cause of rain forest depletion. It has devastated nearly 370,000 acres of the Peruvian...