World stock and commodity markets rallied Thursday on an agreement reached by EU leaders to address their debt crisis.

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Marubeni, a Japanese commodity trader, signed an off-take agreement in early January with Canada Lithium where the Marubeni will distribute 2, 000 tons of battery-grade lithium carbonate for three years with an option to increase distribution to 5, 000 tons.

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The agreement was modestly bullish for the raw commodity sector, including the precious metals.

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The market place now perceives that the expected Greek debt restructuring final agreement would be bullish for the raw commodity sector, including the precious metals.

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Monsanto contended that commodity grain is restricted for use as feed, not cultivation, and its use, even as a second year commodity purchase violates the one-time use license agreement.

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The bank agreed to pay the fines to the Financial Services Authority, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Department of Justice, entering into a deferred prosecution agreement in the U.S. related to one count of wire fraud.

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And our teams are going to be working very hard together to come up with common papers and common positions on the issues which are of interest and which come within the agreement of the G20, such as the matter of currencies, of commodity prices, and all that needs to be done in order to reduce the current and present imbalances.

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