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B’desh wheat cargo rejection spooks sellers

  Bloomberg Some wheat traders are steering clear of Bangladesh’s tenders to import the grain after the nation rejected three cargoes earlier this year. The country’s Directorate General of Food received only two offers in a tender to buy 50,000 metric tons of wheat, Ilahi Dad Khan, director of procurement at the agency, said by phone from Dhaka. It had ...

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Gold posts losses again as Yellen adds to rate-rise angst

  Bloomberg Gold looks very different than it did at the beginning of May. Along with platinum, palladium and silver, it is heading for the biggest monthly loss since November as investors anticipate higher borrowing costs in the U.S. Bullion has pared this year’s rally after retreating more than 5 percent in May as the dollar rallied and investors raised ...

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Much of municipal solid waste collected is food

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Initial findings from The Emirate of Abu Dhabi Waste Master Plan 2040’s Waste Characterisation Study indicate that a significant amount of Municipal Solid Waste is food. Estimations of food waste range from 35% to roughly 50% in some waste collection areas in the Emirate. The fieldwork for the Waste Characterisation Study was carried out ...

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