Trafigura Traders Share $3 Billion Payout on Record Profit
- Trading house made $5.5 billion in six months on energy crisis
- Warns that record profits won’t last as market ‘less stressed’
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Trafigura Group paid $3 billion to its top traders and executives as the commodity trading giant notched up a fresh record profit in the six months to March.
The payout — Trafigura’s highest ever — is the latest evidence of how a small group of commodity traders have shared an unprecedented bounty on the back of the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.