A group of about 2,000 Polish miners has traveled to Luxembourg to protest against the decision of the European Court of Justice to halt production at their lignite mine.
Millions of workers at repair shops, gas stations, oil fields and farms could find their jobs affected by an economic dislocation of historic proportions.
China’s thermal coal futures plunged and turned in their worst week in five months, following Beijing’s strongest intervention in years to boost supply and cool runaway prices.
The London copper contract has been sucked into a stocks vacuum after the amount of available metal in warehouse system sank to the lowest since 1974, writes Andy Home.