Jubilee Metals Group has begun operations at its Roan Upgrade project in Zambia, marking a significant step in the company’s strategy to increase its copper processing capacity.

After selling its CSA copper mine in Cobar, New South Wales, to Metals Acquisition Corp (MAC) for $US1.1 billion ($1.64 billion) earlier this month, Glencore and MAC have officially closed the sale.

China will take more steps to curb commodity price speculation and keep prices stable, showing zero tolerance for illegal activities, according to the country's top economic regulator.

Overall plans for three experimental free trade zones (FTZs) in Guangdong, Tianjin and Fujian, and improvements to the Shanghai experimental FTZ were approved Tuesday at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

Beijing won a key victory Monday in a trade dispute with Washington, as a WTO panel said the United States was wrong to slap punitive duties on a host of Chinese goods.

Slowing economic growth and shrinking energy consumption mean that meeting the government's ambitious goal for renewable energy consumption will remain a tough challenge as China's energy sector embarks on a restructuring program in the coming five years.

Positive sales momentum for China's property sector, a major pillar for economic growth, will continue in the last quarter of 2015, Moody's Investors Service said Thursday.

Given looming downward pressure and ongoing economic restructuring, a lower average annual growth target of 6.5 percent will be acceptable and attainable for the world's second largest economy in the next five years, according to analysts.