Two Bloomberg reporters to write book on commodities trading

Javier Blas

Two Bloomberg News journalists have signed a contract to write a book about commodities trading.

Javier Blas and Jack Farchy will write “The World for Sale,” which will be published by Random House Business Books in Europe and Oxford University Press in the United States and Canada.

“In The World for Sale, the pair will draw on an extraordinary network of contacts to reveal precisely how traders make a living. They will travel the globe – from the battlefields of Libya, to the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the corn fields of the American Midwest – to uncover the economic impact of commodity trading,” said Random House in a statement.

Blas is chief energy correspondent for Bloomberg and is based in London. He previously was commodities editor at the Financial Times.

Farchy is a senior reporter covering energy and commodities for Bloomberg and is also based in London. He also previously worked at the FT as a commodities markets reporter.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.