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Russian crop damage worries lift wheat
Concerns over the past few weeks about limited rainfall in southern Russia push US benchmark prices for the grain to an eight-month high

Resource stocks mirror global economy
Decline of groups involved in supplying essential raw materials for business show how investors really feel about the global economy?s direction

Repsol cancels LNG shipments to Argentina
Spanish group scraps nine deliveries of liquefied natural gas worth $360m in wake of YPF seizure over alleged ?contract violations? by Buenos Aires

Vale hires advisers for oil and gas assets
Brazilian miner hires Citibank and Scotiabank with a view to either selling the assets or spinning them off into a new company

Graff Diamonds sets IPO share price
The jewellery producer and retailer will market shares for its $1bn Hong Kong listing at HK$25-HK$37, with its founder Laurence Graff set for a $290m windfall

Tehran agrees to meet IAEA chief
Yukiya Amano to meet Tehran?s nuclear negotiator as hopes rise for concessions after four years without agency access to sites

G8 leaders urged to focus talks on growth
Barack Obama says the summit of the world?s leading economies will focus on ways to promote growth in Europe and backed fiscal consolidation efforts

LME?s suitors? bids pass £1bn mark
The IntercontinentalExchange, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing and CME Group have all promised to preserve the historic bourse?s open outcry trading pit

Mood sweetens as New York holds sugar dinner
The fall of the real and reports of rain in Brazil hampering the harvest, thus raising expectations of delayed exports, lifts gloom

Japan pushes Asia gas price close to high
Spot prices set to hit record highs this summer as Japan abandons nuclear power and supplies decline after a LNG pipeline was blown up in Yemen

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