Yvonne Yue Li

CME Group Inc. is looking to offer nonstop trading of its smallest silver-futures contracts, giving retail traders the ability to wager on the price of precious metals outside of normal market hours.

Oklahoma residents fear toxic emissions, threatening an effort to restore US industrial might.

US utilities are struggling to connect a flood of new energy storage projects.

A key regional price benchmark for aluminum delivered to the US market tumbled after the Trump administration indicated it would lower tariffs on certain Canadian exports of aluminum.

The US and Canada should stop targeting each other with aluminum tariffs, according to industry groups representing producers of the metal in both countries, and instead forge a common front against Chinese competition.

The U.S. and Canada should stop targeting each other with aluminum tariffs, according to industry groups representing producers of the metal in both countries, and instead forge a common front against Chinese competition.

Gold bulls rejuvenated by the Treasury Department’s efforts to keep US borrowing costs in check are turning to exotic options and spreads to bet on higher bullion prices.

Investors' conviction in bullion is more subdued of late than at the beginning of the year, when President Donald Trump said he wasn't concerned about the dollar's decline, igniting a rally in gold. Traders have been buying large volumes of call spreads on SPDR Gold Shares ETF rather than just outright calls, and exotic options are also popular — both of which are less-expensive ways to bet on the rally.

Some of the world’s biggest money managers have rebuilt their gold holdings after prices dropped, betting that long-term drivers of the precious metal will endure even as the US Federal Reserve takes a more assertive stance on inflation.

A centuries-old tin company backed by funding from the US Department of Defense agreed to buy as much as 100% of the metal concentrates produced by an Australian mining firm under a multiyear offtake agreement financed by STG Metals.