Metals give up Friday’s gains from strong US labour data while WTI-Brent price differential widens further to more than $17 in early trading

Gold miner seeks to double dividend on back of a surge in EPS, despite teething problems in Ivory Coast and weather affecting its operations

Investors in Xstrata would receive 2.8 Glencore shares for every share in the mining group they hold

Consolidating mining and trading bodes ill for consumers. The analogy in the oil market would be a Saudi Arabia producing three times more crude than it already does

Person close to the group says investors have long been critical of Mr Hudaya but that the idea of ousting Mr Rothschild is more contentious

The Costa Concordia and the less-known Ponta de Madeira incident have prompted disquiet over maritime industry’s pursuit of scale efficiencies

Chief executive Jean-Yves Hocher reveals changes to corporate and investment bank in response to Basel III regulatory overhaul

Iran has indicated that its threat to cut oil supplies to European states in order to pre-empt an EU oil embargo may be only a symbolic one

As natural resources have become the engine of the economy, there is a new force with the potential to shape the press landscape

A series of issues had held up a merger, key among them the governance structure of a combined group