By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil’s bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest, worrying global companies including Cargill and Bunge which have important operations. Abiove, an association representing grain handlers, said on Friday road access to Miritituba has remained under partial or total blockade for two weeks, preventing the shipment of around 70,000 tons of … Read more…

By Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Saturday “the market has spoken” in rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, and called on Washington for “equal-footed consultation” after global markets plunged in reaction to the trade levies that drew Chinese retaliation. State-run Xinhua news agency also published the Chinese government’s stance, saying the U.S. should “stop using tariffs as a weapon to suppress China’s economy and trade”. Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan told public … Read more…

By Anna Tong OAKLAND (Reuters) – – Billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026, the federal judge presiding over the case decided on Friday.  Last month, OpenAI and Musk agreed to fast-track a trial over OpenAI’s for-profit shift, the latest turn in a grudge match between the world’s richest person and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman playing out publicly in court. The judge, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District … Read more…

By Ed White REGINA, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – All around a recent farm show in Canada, equipment salespeople struggled to swing deals with farmers worried about tariffs. With some combines costing more than $800,000, a surprise price hike from a tariff would be a hit most farm budgets cannot easily take. Canada was spared the Trump administration’s broad global tariffs on April 2 but faces tariffs on steel and aluminum exports to the U.S. as well … Read more…

By Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s state-run media has taken to the internet with AI-generated videos, featuring dancing robots and fraught consumers, to chide U.S. President Donald Trump and tariffs they say threaten high inflation and economic distress for Americans. “‘Liberation Day’, you promised us the stars. But tariffs killed our cheap Chinese cars,” an automated female voice sings in a video on the website of China’s CGTN, a state-run English-language broadcaster, over a … Read more…

LONDON (Reuters) – World cocoa, coffee and sugar prices slid again on Friday as markets remained rattled by U.S. president Donald Trump’s sweeping ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, especially after China retaliated with its own tariffs on U.S. imports. Trump on Wednesday slapped a 10% tariff on most U.S. imports and much higher levies of more than 50% on some counties, prompting a world-wide sell of in stock markets as nations from Canada to China ready retaliation. … Read more…