December ICE NY cocoa (CCZ25) on Wednesday closed up +42 (+0.70%), and December ICE London cocoa #7 (CAZ25) closed up +62 (+1.46%).Cocoa prices recovered from 1-week lows on Wednesday and…
Cotton futures are trading with 60 to 65 point fain across most contracts on Wednesday. Crude oil futures are up 44 cents/barrel to $60.59, with the US dollar index back up…
December WTI crude oil (CLZ25) on Wednesday closed up +0.33 (+0.55%), and December RBOB gasoline (RBZ25) closed up +0.0273 (+1.47%).Crude oil prices settled higher on Wednesday amid an outlook for…
David CannBusiness reporterPureSeoulKorean K-beauty products have caught the imagination of skincare buyers around the worldKorean skincare or "K-beauty" products are very popular around the world.But as exports from South Korea…
Danielle KayeBusiness reporterThe titans of the technology sector are ramping up their spending on artificial intelligence, as they rush to reap the benefits of an AI boom that has pushed…
Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondentGetty ImagesNearly 200,000 people on benefits could have their debts to their energy supplier cancelled, if they make some effort to pay what is owed.Unpaid bills…
Josh Martin,Business reporter and Haider Saleem,JournalistBBCLancashire gift shop and café owner Charlotte Brennan says autumnal trends have "snowballed", with customers buying in to homeware trends to mark the shorter days"It's…
Tit-for-tat tariffs, a shaky truce and turmoil: How we got to the Trump-Xi meetingOsmond ChiaBusiness reporterGetty ImagesDonald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are due to meet on ThursdayUS…
Websites disabled in Microsoft global outage come back onlineImran Rahman-Jones,Technology reporter and Lily Jamali,North America Technology correspondentGetty ImagesMicrosoft said the Azure outage was due to "DNS issues"Websites for Heathrow, NatWest…
Danielle KayeBusiness reporterGetty ImagesUS Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has been criticised by President Trump for not cutting interest rates fast enoughThe US Federal Reserve pushed forward with an interest…
Danielle KayeBusiness reporterNvidia has hit a new milestone, becoming the first company in the world to reach a market value of $5tn (£3.8tn).The US chip giant has rapidly climbed from…
Charlotte EdwardsBusiness reporterNew rules that will make phone networks block scam texts from reaching potential victims have been proposed by Britain's communications' watchdog.Ofcom said these would "address current gaps in…