Annual top-ten list of the largest US-based mining companies ranked by market capitalization

The Bloomberg Commodity Spot Index, a basket of nearly two dozen raw materials, surged to a 10-year high last week and is rapidly closing in on the record set in 2011.

Commodities as a whole have risen more than 20% this year, and around 50% in the case of crude oil.

Former Glencore trader said he was part of a bribery scheme to win oil contracts from Nigeria transferred $300,000 of company funds in 2014 to an intermediary who’d requested the cash to benefit a senior government official in the nation’s elections.

Mairead Lavery, who in 2019 became the first woman to helm EDC in its 75-year history, has made environmental, social and governance investing one of her three priorities.

TransAlta has set a target of reducing greenhouse gases by 60% by 2030.

The decision comes amid increasingly alarming signs of global warming.