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Rare earth elements

China has cornered the market in commodities that are arguably as important as oil to a modern economy

Rio / BHP

Rhetoric on both sides suggests the joint venture is still on, but if resolve were weakening in the Rio camp, it would be entirely understandable

Peak gold?

The impulse to hoard bullion as a hedge against inflation is one that many seem to find hard to resist, but the notion the world is running out of the stuff is not

World Energy Outlook

There are just so many moving parts involved that making forecasts is a mug’s game

US oil refiners

Capacity utilisation is now barely above 80 per cent and may go lower next year as huge and efficient new refineries, mostly in Asia, worsen the glut

Spot the difference

A US technological breakthrough is reshaping the global natural gas market and threatening pricing models

Royal Dutch Shell

Both Shell and Exxon pumped out fewer profits in the third quarter than bullish earnings from BP and ConocoPhilips had led investors to expect

European IPOs

Interest from institutional and retail investors in Poland’s PGE shows that Europe’s IPO drought may be ending

BP

Compared with last year, profits may have crumpled but over the summer the oil major still made almost $100,000 every three minutes

KNOC / Harvest Energy

Korea’s gadget-producing facilities may be the envy of the world, but the resource-poor nation still needs to heat and light them

Anglo American

Oilfield services

Xstrata / Anglo

Rio / BHP

Xstrata / Anglo

Sino-US oil competition

Phibro folly

UK carbon trading

Rio Tinto

Naftogaz

EDF’s new chief

Sinochem / Nufarm

Global warming

Ukrainian gas

Oil production