Coal funding persists even as climate worry grows

Shares fell as much as 13% after the miner and commodities trader was told by US Department of Justice to produce documents on Nigeria, Congo and Venezuela.

China's top steel maker China Baowu Steel Groups move is in line with Beijing's goal push to relocate heavy industries from polluted and crowded regions to places with less environmental pressure.

It is not the first time Chinalco, China's biggest state-owned aluminium producer, has run afoul of the country's ever stricter environmental regulations.

Teneris will lay off 40 workers at its TenarisAlgomaTubes plant in Ontario and adjust output there because of the U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

A German battery plant could help ease an expected negative impact in the workforce employed by the local automotive industry.

Smelters seek to address low zinc prices and treatment charges.

Zinc continued to slide after entering a bear market amid concern about increased supply and declining demand.

While trade tensions haven’t yet provided much support, an escalation combined with a slide in the dollar could lift prices.

Inflation is set to get an even bigger jolt now that Trump has formally approved 25 percent tariffs on as much as $50 billion of Chinese goods.