Protestors Rally Against FT Commodities Summit

Protestors Rally Against FT Commodities Summit by Simon Bradley, Lausanne – swissinfo.ch

Hundreds of people took to the streets in Lausanne on Saturday to protest against a major commodities conference organised by the Financial Times (FT) newspaper next week. 

On Monday, the fifth FT Global Commodities Summit opens at the five-star Beau Rivage Palace hotel in Lausanne close to Lake Geneva. The three-day event brings together leading traders, bankers and executives from commodities and other resources groups, such as Mercuria, Rosneft, Glencore, Trafigura, HSBC and Goldman Sachs.

But on Saturday activists protesting against commodity speculation marched through the centre of Lausanne. Around 400 people participated in the protest.

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