Archie Hunter

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  • Water vapor and smoke rise from a Korea Zinc Co. smelting factory at sunrise in Ulsan, South Korea, on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. South Korea’s simmering credit risks weighed on construction activity last quarter, holding economic growth in check even as exports maintained momentum and adding to concerns for President Yoon Suk Yeol ahead of parliamentary elections crucial to his policy initiatives. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    A bitter feud risks ripping apart an $11 billion metals empire

    By Heesu Lee, Archie Hunter, and others
  • Jeremy Weir, chief executive officer of Trafigura Group LtdFinance

    A major commodities trader says they have uncovered a major fraud after discovering their Nickel shipment contained no Nickel—and it’s costing them more than a half billion dollars

    By Archie Hunter, Jack Farchy, and others
  • A road train travels along a highway near Port Hedland, Australia, on Monday, March 18, 2019. A two-day drive from the nearest big city, Perth, Port Hedland is the nexus of Australias iron-ore industry, the terminus of one of Australias longest private railways that hauls ore about 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the mines of BHP Group and Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. The line ran a record-breaking test train weighing almost 100,000 tons that was more than 7 kilometers long in 2001, and even normal trains haul up to 250 wagons of ore. Photographer: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    ‘Sorry’: A radioactive capsule lost on an 870-mile stretch of highway has Australian authorities and mining giant Rio Tinto scrambling

    By Archie Hunter and Bloomberg
  • Fuel prices on a pump filling station at a Shell gas station in Boston, Mass., on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Democratic efforts to define the party's energy policies are facing mounting pressure as surging gasoline prices, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the collapse in Congress of President Joe Bidens climate spending package heighten scrutiny of their agenda.

    Shell says it bought Russian oil after government talks

    By Archie Hunter, Laura Hurst, and others
  • Storage silos and shipping cranes at the Port of Odessa in Odessa, Ukraine, on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Russia’s troop buildup on the Ukraine border is now being cited by strategists as one of the main threats to global markets, even though President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said he currently has no plans to attack. Photographer: Christopher Occhicone/BloombergInternational

    Cargill says a ship it chartered was hit in Ukrainian waters in the Black Sea

    By Archie Hunter, Tarso Veloso, and others