ICIS is the world's largest petrochemical market information provider, and has fast-growing energy and fertilizer divisions. Our aim is to give companies in global commodities markets a competitive advantage by delivering trusted pricing data, high value news, analysis and independent consulting, enabling our customers to make better-informed trading and planning decisions.
With a global staff of more than 650, ICIS has people based in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Milan, Montpellier, Dusseldorf, Mumbai, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Perth. The team covers over 120 commodity markets and has in-depth knowledge across markets in upstream and downstream sectors in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. The business is a division of Reed Business Information Limited, part of Reed Elsevier.
The intern will be taught writing on stories with links to the chemicals/petrochemicals/energy industry such as new deals between companies, start-ups/shutdowns of plants, economic data such as import and export information as well as GDP forecasts, new acquisitions/mergers of companies, reports by research firms and brokerages, central bank and IPO announcements, stock exchange filings, new governmental tariffs (tax), policy and regulation, environmental disasters and bad weather reports, health issues and even protests.
The intern will also be taught how to edit news stories.
Past interns have even covered conferences and press briefings on their own.
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