GLEN Glencore Plc

By Jaime Llinares Taboada

Glencore PLC on Thursday said that first-quarter production was in line with expectations, maintained guidance for its key commodities, and said full-year marketing earnings will be within the higher end of the guidance range.

The Switzerland-headquartered, natural-resources company reported that its coal production declined 23% to 24.5 million metric tons in the first quarter from a year earlier, reflecting the Prodeco operation in Colombia being in care and maintenance and market-related production cuts in Australia.

As for metals, copper output was up 3% in the period, cobalt increased 11%, zinc fell 4%, lead was down 10%, nickel dropped 11%, and ferrochrome rose 3%.

Gold production was up 6% and silver stayed broadly flat. Oil output plunged 41% to 1.07 million barrels.

Glencore reaffirmed full-year production guidance for copper, cobalt, zinc, nickel, ferrochrome and coal.

In addition, Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg said that 2021 earnings before interest and taxes from the marketing business are expected to sit within the top half of Glencore's long-term $2.2 billion-$3.2 billion annual guidance range.

Write to Jaime Llinares Taboada at jaime.llinares@wsj.com; @JaimeLlinaresT

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April 29, 2021 02:44 ET (06:44 GMT)

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