{"id":64304,"date":"2026-05-12T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64304\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:22:29","slug":"glencore-traders-post-record-profits-as-war-drives-energy-market-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/64304\/","title":{"rendered":"Glencore Traders Post Record Profits as War Drives Energy Market Volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GLEN:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Glencore Plc<\/a>\u2019s trading team made bumper profits as the Iran war roiled global commodity markets, with surging prices helping to put the firm\u2019s marketing unit on course for one of its best-ever results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Based on its first-quarter performance, full-year core earnings from the company\u2019s trading unit would \u201ccomfortably\u201d exceed the top end of its long-term guidance, which is set at $3.5 billion, Glencore said in a trading update on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glencore Plc\u2019s trading team made bumper profits as the Iran war roiled global commodity markets, with surging prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[7437,230,11302,7438,7439,132,352,3188,231,239,11301,4140],"class_list":{"0":"post-64304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glencore","8":"tag-chief-executive-officer","9":"tag-earnings","10":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","11":"tag-generic-1st-hg-future","12":"tag-generic-1st-xw-future","13":"tag-glencore","14":"tag-glencore-plc","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-vitol-group-the","19":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116563473128488132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}