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Below are companyrelated news and stories from France and Benelux which might have an influence on the area's markets or specific stocks. POLICE 29 Controversial COP29 deal reveals environment cooperation tearing at edges CARREFOUR Brazilian meatpackers have actually apparently stopped supplying meat to the group in Brazil after the retailer's worldwide CEO promised to keep South American meat off its shelves in France in solidarity with French farmers CTP Places EUR 500 mln green bond and EUR 200 mln tender deal SANOFI Strategies to change medical facility drug-discount program, WSJ reports THALES Two people knowledgeable about a corruption probe by British and French private investigators targeting Thales told Reuters on Friday it a minimum of partly included a service offer in Indonesia TOTALENERGIES Adanis understood of United States probe when they sold bribe-linked properties to TotalEnergies, prosecutors state. Separately, QatarEnergy said it entered into an arrangement with the French company to obtain additional offshore expedition interests in the Orange Basin off the coast of Namibia. Pan-European market data: European Equities speed guide ... ... ... ... FTSE Eurotop 300 index ... ... ... ... ... ... DJ STOXX index ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Leading 10 STOXX sectors ... ... ... ...... Top 10 EUROSTOXX sectors ... ... ...... Top 10 Eurotop 300 sectors ... ... ...... Leading 25 European pct gainers ... ... ... ... ... Leading 25 European pct losers ... ... ... ... ... Main stock exchange: Dow Jones ... ... ... Wall Street report ... Nikkei 225 ... ... ... Tokyo report ...... FTSE 100 ... ... ... London report ...... Xetra DAX ... ... ... Frankfurt items ... ... CAC-40 ... ...... Paris products ...... World Indices ... ... ... ... ... ...... Reuters study of world bourse outlook ... ... European Asset Allotment ... ... ... ... ... Reuters News at a look: Top News ... ... ... Equities ... ... ... Main oil report ...... Main currency report ...
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MORNING quote EUROPE-Bonds rally, dollar dips on Treasury option
A take a look at the day ahead in European and worldwide markets from Wayne Cole Asia has been controlled by the market reaction to the choice of fund manager Scott Bessent as incoming U.S. Treasury Secretary, with the primary feeling one of relief that he's a. mainstream prospect instead of an unidentified. The truth that Bessent talks like a fiscal hawk sufficed to. push 10-year Treasury yields down by 6 basis points, though. whether he will be able to trim deficits while rolling over. due-to-expire tax cuts remains to be seen. In various media appearances he has talked of cutting the. deficit spending to 3% of GDP and handling the mountain of. U.S. financial obligation, apparently by slashing costs and raising economic. development. Sceptics would keep in mind the U.S. has actually had strong growth for some. time and the deficit has only got larger, while the quantity of. discretionary spending there is to cut is unimportant compared to. the essential things such as Medicare and defence. Bessent has actually spoken in favour of tariffs, recommending they. should be goals layered in gradually, while the levels of. tariffs being pointed out, such as 60% on Chinese products, were. maximalist positions that might be watered down. He has actually also voiced assistance for a strong dollar, relatively. leaning against President-elect Donald Trump's previous. dalliance with devaluation as a way to suppress trade deficits. Therefore, while the dollar has actually dipped today in line with bond. yields, the longer-term bull argument appears undamaged. The dollar has been underpinned by the divergence in. economic performance between the U.S. and Europe, a point driven. home by last week's PMIs. Markets are totally priced for a quarter-point cut from the. ECB next month, and imply almost a 58% possibility it will reduce by a. complete 50 basis points on Dec. 12. Wagers on the Fed have gone the. other way, with the possibility of a rate cut in December. diminishing to 52%, from atop 70% a month back. The marketplace has only 65 bps points of Fed relieving priced in by. completion of 2025, compared with 154 bps for the ECB. The chances will be additional fine-tuned this week by the tone of. the minutes of the Fed's last conference, in addition to October. inflation figures from the United States and Europe. U.S. core PCE inflation is seen increasing a tick to 2.8%,. though in part due to higher expenses for monetary management that. reflect the surge on Wall Street, rather than need in the. economy. EU inflation is likewise expected to nudge greater on base. effects as a fall in the CPI from last year drops out of the. estimation. Keep in mind there are no Fed speakers scheduled today,. probably because of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, however plenty. of ECB and BoE officials are on the menu. Key advancements that might affect markets on Monday: - Germany IFO November Business Climate Study - Chicago and Dallas Fed studies - Speeches from ECB Chief Economic Expert Philip Lane and ECB. member Gabriel Makhlouf - Appearances by Bank of England Deputy Guv Clare. Lombardelli and Monetary Policy Committee member Swati Dhingra
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Oil prices ease however remain near 2-week highs on Russia, Iran tensions
Oil rates retreated on Monday following 6% gains recently, but stayed near twoweek highs as geopolitical stress grew between Western powers and major oil producers Russia and Iran, raising threats of supply disruption. Brent unrefined futures slipped 26 cents, or 0.35%, to $ 74.91 a barrel by 0440 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures were at $70.97 a barrel, down 27 cents, or 0.38%. Both agreements last week notched their biggest weekly gains given that late September to reach their greatest settlement levels since Nov. 7 after Russia fired a hypersonic missile at Ukraine in a warning to the United States and UK following strikes by Kyiv on Russia utilizing U.S. and British weapons. Oil costs are starting the brand-new week with some small cool-off as market individuals await more cues from geopolitical developments and the Fed's policy outlook to set the tone, stated Yeap Jun Rong, market strategist at IG. Stress in between Ukraine and Russia have edged up a. notch recently, causing some rates for the threats of a wider. escalation potentially affecting oil supplies. As both Ukraine and Russia contend to get some utilize. ahead of any upcoming settlements under a Trump administration,. the tensions might likely persist into the year-end, keeping Brent. costs supported around $70-$ 80, Yeap included. In addition, Iran responded to a resolution gone by the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Thursday by purchasing procedures such as. triggering different brand-new and advanced centrifuges used in. improving uranium. The IAEA censure and Iran's reaction increases the. possibility that Trump will seek to enforce sanctions versus. Iran's oil exports when he enters power, Vivek Dhar, a. products strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia said in. a note. Implemented sanctions might sideline about 1 million barrels. per day of Iran's oil exports, about 1% of worldwide oil supply, he. stated. The Iranian foreign ministry said on Sunday that it will. hold discuss its disputed nuclear program with three. European powers on Nov. 29. Markets are concerned not only about damage to oil ports. and facilities, but also the possibility of war contagion. and participation of more countries, stated Priyanka Sachdeva,. senior market analyst at Phillip Nova. Investors were likewise focused on increasing crude oil demand at. China and India, the world's top and third-largest importers,. respectively. China's crude imports rebounded in November as lower rates. drew stockpiling need while Indian refiners increased crude. throughput by 3% on year to 5.04 million bpd in October, buoyed. by fuel exports. For the week, traders will be considering U.S. personal. consumption expenditures (PCE) information, due on Wednesday, as that. will likely inform the Federal Reserve's policy meeting. scheduled for Dec. 17-18, Sachdeva stated.
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QatarEnergy Boosts Offshore Stakes in Namibia
QatarEnergy has entered into an agreement with TotalEnergies to acquire additional offshore exploration interests in the Orange Basin off the coast of Namibia, it said on Sunday.The deal includes a 5.25% increase in QatarEnergy's stake in block 2913B and a 4.695% increase in block 2912, QatarEnergy said in a statement.Under the agreement, QatarEnergy's stake in block 2913B will increase to 35.25%, while its stake in block 2912 will rise to 33.025%.TotalEnergies remains the operator of both blocks, with other stakeholders including Impact Oil & Gas holding 9.5% and Namibia's state-owned Namcor holding 10% in block 2913B and 15% in block 2912.(Reuters - Writing by Adam Makary; Editing by William Mallard)
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Dalian iron ore hits more than two-week high up on firmer steel outlook, fresh China stimulus
Dalian iron ore futures rose to their highest in more than two weeks on Monday, buoyed by more powerful global steel production and additional financial stimulus from top consumer China. The most-traded January iron ore contract on China's Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) ended early morning trade 0.06%. higher at 775.5 yuan ($ 107.06) a metric lot. The contract had previously increased as high as 791.0 yuan, its. greatest since Nov. 8. The benchmark December iron ore on the Singapore. Exchange was 0.72% higher at $101.3 a heap, as of 0415 GMT. Worldwide crude steel output in October climbed up 0.4% from the. previous year to hit 151.2 million heaps, World Steel Association. information showed on Friday. In China, the world's top metals manufacturer and customer of. the metal, crude steel production rose 2.9% to 81.9 million lots. over the exact same duration, the information revealed. Lower Chinese steel item stock driven by robust. exports likewise supported iron ore prices above $100 a heap, Westpac. experts said in a note. Meanwhile, China's reserve bank injected 900 billion yuan. ($ 124.3 billion) into its banking system on Monday by means of one-year. policy loans. China's banking system is dealing with increasing liquidity. pressure towards the end of the year, with city governments. increasing bond issuance as Beijing ramps up efforts to minimize. financial obligation dangers and promote the struggling economy. The world's second-largest economy might likewise deal with almost. 40% tariffs on its exports to the U.S. next year, said. economists polled , possibly slicing growth by up. to 1 portion point. Other steelmaking ingredients on the DCE lost ground, with. coking coal and coke down 2.11% and 1.06%,. respectively. Steel benchmarks on the Shanghai Futures Exchange ticked. lower. Rebar and hot-rolled coil dropped. almost 0.5%, wire rod dipped about 0.1% and stainless. steel slid 0.06%.
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Nations stay divided as fifth U.N. plastics treaty talks start
As delegates from 175 nations collected in Busan, South Korea on Monday for the 5th round of talks aimed at securing a worldwide treaty to curb plastic contamination, remaining departments cast doubts on whether a. last arrangement remains in sight. South Korea is hosting the 5th and seemingly last U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) meeting this. week, after the previous round of talks in Ottawa in April ended. without a path forward on capping plastic production. Rather, talks will be concentrated on chemicals of issue and. other steps after petrochemical-producing countries such as. Saudi Arabia and China highly opposed efforts to target. plastic production over the demonstrations of nations that bear the. impact of plastic contamination. The divisions plaguing plastics treaty talks echo conflicts. that have long stalled U.N. efforts to curb worldwide warming, with. the most current climate top, COP29, having actually simply ended with an. arrangement that poorer nations assailed as insufficient. Without substantial intervention the amount of plastic. getting in the environment yearly by 2040 is expected to nearly. double compared to 2022, INC Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso said. at the opening session in Busan on Monday. It is about humanity rising to fulfill an existential. challenge, he said, keeping in mind that microplastics have been found. in human organs. The United States raised eyebrows in August when it stated. it would back plastic production caps in the treaty, putting it. in positioning with the EU, Kenya, Peru and other countries in the. High Ambition Union. The election of Donald Trump as president, however, has. raised concerns about that position, as during his first. presidency he avoided multilateral agreements and any. dedications to slow or stop U.S. oil and petrochemical. production. The U.S. delegation did not address concerns on whether it. would reverse its new position to support plastic production. caps. However it supports ensuring that the international instrument. addresses plastic products, chemicals used in plastic products,. and the supply of primary plastic polymers, according to a. spokesperson for the WhiteHouse Council on Environmental uality. Inger Andersen, executive director of the U.N. Environment. Program, said she was positive the talks will end with an. contract, pointing to the communique from the Group of 20. nations at a top recently requiring a lawfully binding. treaty by the end of this year. IMPACT ON HEALTH For a Pacific island country like Fiji, a worldwide plastics. treaty is vital to protect its fragile environment and public. health, stated Sivendra Michael, Fiji's environment minister and chief. climate and plastics negotiator. He told Reuters on the sidelines of the 29th U.N. Environment. Change Conference this month that regardless of not producing any. plastic, Fiji is bearing the force of its downstream contamination. Where do these plastics wind up? It winds up in our oceans,. in our landfill, in our backyards. And the effect of the. plastics breaking down into little substances has damaging. results, not only on the environment, but on us as individuals,. on our health, he stated, keeping in mind research studies that revealed most of the. fish consumed in the nation was contaminated with microplastics. While supporting a worldwide treaty, the petrochemical. market has actually been singing in advising governments to prevent setting. compulsory plastic production caps, and focus on solutions on. minimizing plastic waste, like recycling. We would see a treaty effective if it would truly put ... focus on ending plastic contamination. Nothing else ought to be the. focus. said Martin Jung, president for efficiency products at. chemical manufacturer BASF. Previous talks have actually likewise discussed looking for types of. moneying to help developing countries carry out the treaty. At COP29, France, Kenya and Barbados drifted establishing a. series of international levies on specific sectors that could assist ramp. up the amount of cash that might be made available to. establishing countries seeking support to help their clean energy. transition and cope with the progressively serious effects of. climate change. The proposal included a cost of $60-$ 70/ton on main. polymer production, which is on average around 5-7% of the. polymer price, seen possibly raising an estimated $25-$ 35. billion annually. Industry groups have actually rejected the concept, stating it will raise. customer costs.
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Gold rates ease from a three-week peak on profit-taking
Gold prices relieved on Monday from a. threeweek high hit previously in the session as investors reserved. revenues and traders changed their expectations for Federal. Reserve rate cuts, waiting for more information to examine the interest. rate outlook. Spot gold fell 0.6% to $2,695.79 per ounce since 0246. GMT. U.S. gold futures shed 0.5% to $2,697.90. Gold is being pushed as some traders wished to book a. earnings around the $2,718 high, given gold futures enjoyed their. best week given that the pandemic recently, said Matt Simpson,. senior expert at City Index. I doubt we'll simply see an extension of recently's. surge offered the much shorter trading week due to U.S. Thanksgiving. Traders see a 51% opportunity of another 25-basis-point Fed rate. cut in December, below 62% recently, according to the CME. Fedwatch tool. Greater rate of interest, which make non-yielding assets like. gold less attractive, might even more push the metal. Some Fed policymakers last week expressed concern that. inflation development may have stalled, advocating for caution,. while others highlighted the requirement for ongoing rate cuts. Less dovish U.S. policy signals and potential inflation. surprises might support a December rate hold, slowing rate cut. potential customers can be seen weighing on gold prices, stated IG market. strategist Yeap Jun Rong. Financiers are looking out for the Fed's November FOMC. fulfilling minutes, GDP data (very first revision), and core PCE. figures, today. Meanwhile, limiting more disadvantage, the dollar index. dipped 0.7%, enhancing gold's appeal for holders of other. currencies. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yields likewise decreased. On the physical front, gold premiums in India dipped last. week as increasing regional rates cooled need, while bullion. interest in China and other Asian markets stayed soft. Area silver fell 1% to $30.99 per ounce, platinum. was down 0.3% to $960.85 and palladium slipped. 0.6% to $1,003.21.
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Base metals rise as dollar softens
Base metals costs rose on Monday as the U.S. dollar eased, making greenbackpriced metals less expensive to holders of other currencies, although gains were capped by issues over the demand outlook. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME). increased 1.4% to $9,089.50 per metric ton by 0229 GMT, while. the most-traded January copper contract on the Shanghai Futures. Exchange (SHFE) advanced 0.6% to 74,380 yuan. ($ 10,268.94) a load. The dollar fell as financiers presumed the pick for U.S. Treasury secretary would assure the bond market and pulled. yields lower, shaving a few of the dollar's rate benefit. Despite the increase on Monday, copper prices on both exchanges. are set for the second straight regular monthly loss due to. disappointment in the Chinese stimulus launched so far and. concerns that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will impose. tariffs on China and hurt trade circulations and financial development. Copper stocks in SHFE warehouses have actually been dipping. during China's peak usage season, however stockpiles in LME. and COMEX storage facilities are largely unchanged, reflecting weak. demand outside China. LME aluminium rose 1.1% to $2,653 a ton, nickel. innovative 0.3% to $16,025, zinc climbed 0.9% to. $ 2,994, lead increased 0.6% to $2,033.50, and tin. was up 0.7% at $29,125. LME money lead was traded at a $26.94-a-ton to the. three-month contract , the smallest discount rate because Aug. 23, showing that near-term products are tightening up. SHFE aluminium increased 0.3% to 20,620 yuan a ton,. nickel was up 1.1% at 127,260 yuan, zinc. sophisticated 0.1% to 25,265 yuan, lead climbed 1.7% to. 17,200 yuan and tin increased 0.8% to 243,490 yuan. For the leading stories in metals and other news, click. or
West challenges China's important minerals hold on Africa: Andy Home
China's CMOC Group overtook Glencore to end up being the world's. biggest manufacturer of cobalt in 2015 as it ramped up its new. Kisanfu mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The company's production leapt by 174% year-on-year to. 55,526 metric tons, representing over a quarter of international. demand of 213,000 lots.
Kisanfu, in which Chinese battery giant CATL owns a minority. stake, has actually flooded the cobalt market. The Cobalt Institute. price quotes international production exceeded demand by 12,500 heaps in. 2023, making it among the greatest surpluses recently.
CMOC is unconcerned. It plans to lift output further this. year regardless of a slump in the cobalt rate from $40 per lb. in May 2022 to a current $13.
Others can't pay for to be so sanguine. The cost implosion. has actually upturned job economics and undermined Western hopes of. decreasing dependence on China for a metal that is important both. to tidy energy innovation and military hardware.
However the West is now tough China's tight grip on the. mineral riches lying underneath the soil of the Congo and its. neighbour Zambia.
This new scramble for Africa comes with a post-colonial. twist since both countries have aspirations to be major actors in. the important minerals race.
BACK TO AFRICA
The idea is in the name. The Copperbelt straddling northern. Zambia and the southern part of the Congo still consists of a few of. the richest copper and cobalt deposits in the world.
KoBold Metals, a California-based metals exploration business. backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezoz, declares its. Mingomba task in Zambia boasts copper grades of around 5%,. compared with under 1% for a lot of huge mines in Chile, the world's. top producer.
Couple of Western mining companies have actually previously ventured into. the renascent Copperbelt, cautious of the daunting mix of political. risk, bad infrastructure and, in the case of Congolese cobalt,. the ethical issues around artisanal mining.
Fewer still have lasted.
U.S. manufacturer Freeport McMoRan brought the Tenke. Fungurume copper-cobalt mine into production in 2009. It offered. its holding to CMOC in 2016, providing the Chinese business its. initially grip in the Congo.
Freeport went on to sell CMOC the Kisanfu deposit in 2020. stating it was no longer tactical to its long-term growth.
CMOC rather evidently sees the deposit very differently.
And Western federal governments also appear to be concerning the view. If you're tactically short of energy transition metals, that. such as copper and cobalt, there's just one location to head.
Back to Africa.
DE-RISKING AFRICAN METALS
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). is planning to near double its monetary commitments to attempt to. de-risk mining in the Copperbelt.
The flagship financial investment so far is the Lobito Passage. job, which will update the existing railway from the. Angolan port of Lobito to the Congo and after that extend it into. Zambia.
The goal is to link Copperbelt mines straight with the. Atlantic Ocean, reducing both the cost and the carbon foot-print. of the existing trucking passage to South African ports.
U.S. and European government support, it is hoped, will. de-risk logistics for the private sector, a policy that has. currently borne fruit in the type of a six-year dedication from. Ivanhoe Mines to use the upgraded railway for copper. exports from its huge Kamoa-Kakula mine in the Congo.
The United States Trade and Advancement Company (USTDA),. meanwhile, is moneying an expediency study into a brand-new. 200-megawatt solar power plant in Solwezi.
This will not only provide Zambian market but has the. possible to supply power for 2 vital mineral mines in the. Congo, dealing with another consistent issue for Copperbelt. operators.
Facilities is simply the start of the West's re-engagement. with the Congo and Zambia.
The DFC has an extremely healthy pipeline of important minerals. projects in the area, according to deputy CEO Nisha Biswal.
Japan's Company for Metals and Energy Security has simply. signed a memorandum of understanding with Congo's state-owned. mining business Gecamines for technical cooperation at every. phase of the mineral supply chain.
The offer falls under the aegis of the Minerals Security. Partnership, a U.S.-led alliance of Western countries seeking to. lower crucial metals reliance on China and other issue. suppliers such as Russia.
TAKING BACK CONTROL
Gecamines has in recent years been a largely passive. minority stake-holder in the country's mines.
That is changing as the Congolese government looks to get a. greater earnings share of its mineral resources.
President Felix Tshisekedi's federal government, which won a 2nd. term in December elections, is taking a more difficult line with some of. the Chinese investment deals struck under his predecessor Joseph. Kabila.
The amorphous mega handle China's Sicomines joint endeavor. has actually been reviewed with the Chinese partners dedicating to $7. billion in facilities spending and yearly payment of 1.2%. royalties.
CMOC itself was locked in a drawn-out dispute with the. federal government over royalties, causing a year-long suspension of. exports.
CMOC ended up paying $800 million and, maybe more. considerably, accepted equate Gecamines' minority holding. into commensurate physical metal offtake deals.
Gecamines sees this as a design template for all its minority. holdings and the Zambian federal government seems to be taking a close. interest.
Gecamines has actually also just offered to buy three copper-cobalt. assets from Eurasian Resources Group, which is part owned by the. government of Kazakhstan.
The real game-changer, however, could be the Congo's second. effort at formalising its artisanal mining force, which. jointly produces over 10% of the world's supply of cobalt.
Entreprise Generale du Cobalt (EGC) was produced in 2021 and. provided special rights over artisanal production but failed to. protect an ideal deposit to trial the plan.
Gecamines will now move 5 mining areas to EGC in what. is hoped to be the start of a transformational process of. assimilating artisanal workers.
De-risking artisanal mining would be also be. transformational for the Minerals Security Partnership, which. desperately requires to discover cobalt that's not committed to Chinese. buyers.
The viewpoints revealed here are those of the author, a. columnist .
(source: Reuters)