Home: China’s aluminum imports underpin physical premium surge

The deal, due to close in July, will make ICBC Standard the only Chinese bank to operate a vault in London.

The deal marks the end of Eldorado’s reign in China.

Supply-demand fundamentals for iron ore appear to be moving back to balance amid steel supply concerns and after Chinese stock market regulators announced more steps to discourage speculative trading in the steelmaking commodity.

Negative interest rates and slow growth have fuelled investors' demand for gold in record-breaking fashion.

New report says mining and metals companies set to default on debt at more than three times the historical rate going back to 1983.

The Denver-based potash miner is placing its West facility in New Mexico in "care and maintenance” beginning July.

BMI Research analysts also believe gold prices bottomed in 2015 and expect the metal to edge higher over the coming quarters.

In a rerun of last year's stock market collapse in China, mainland retail investors are now fleeing raw material markets frantically bid up since March.

Rout continues ahead of crucial Chinese import data.