Richard Elman, head of commodities giant Noble, turns his attention to U.S.

Richard Elman, who got his start as a scrap-metals laborer before creating Asia’s No. 1 commodities trader by revenue, surrounds himself with reminders of his hard-won success.

In his 18th-floor office in Hong Kong, the executive chairman of Noble Group keeps a photo of himself with Bill Clinton, a hunk of coal from an Australian mine and two abstract paintings by Chinese artists. The billionaire attributes part of his good fortune to the amber bead bracelet that he fiddles with on his wrist. He’s been wearing it for more than 10 years, since someone told him it keeps bad energy out and good energy in.

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