Bloomberg Shenhua Group Corp., China’s biggest coal producer, is seeking to limit sales of the fuel to end-users and choke off supplies to traders amid government pressure on the nation’s major miners to cool surging prices. The Beijing-based company has changed its thermal coal sales policy to limit how much trading companies can buy and allow some sales to ...

  Bloomberg Wesfarmers Ltd., the Australian retail-to-fertilizer conglomer- ate, has kicked off a sale process for its two coal mines in the country after prices for the commodity soared this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Perth-based company has sent preliminary information on the Curragh and Bengalla mines to potential buyers ahead of calling for bids, ...

  Bloomberg Cotton supplies at Indian markets dropped by more than half after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise move to withdraw and replace high-denomination banknotes. Prices have already climbed about 4 percent as farmers withhold supplies, Aurobinda Gayan, vice president for research at trader Kotak Commodity Services Ltd., said in an interview on Tuesday. They may climb further through early ...