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The Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is Not Enough

Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.

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The Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing

mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A three-perspective investigation on optionality, not confrontation.

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The Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day…

Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals.

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The Two Chokepoints Inside Every Chip — Magna Bureau

One Dutch company prints the machines. One Taiwanese company prints the chips. China refines the graphite inside the batteries.

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Court kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next…

The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours.

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Beijing opens the liquidity taps with a record…

China's central bank pumps a trillion yuan a day into banks through Golden Week — its biggest liquidity backstop ever. Why Beijing is flooding the system.

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A drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine

Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices.

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Houthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate

The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth.

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The battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers

Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records.

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The dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five…

The dollar index hits an eight-week high and the 10-year Treasury yield crosses 5% — unseen since 2007. Gold falls below $4,300. The Fed arithmetic, in full.

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Gates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'

On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient

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Sheinbaum's gambit: buy American, curb — Magna Bureau

Mexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus and Trump's tariffs on the table in Was

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Lula signs it into force: the Mercosur-EFTA — Magna Bureau

Brazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, November 1 for Norway — ten rounds of talks si

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Germany stirs: PMI hits 53.8 as forecasters — Magna Bureau

Flash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning over.

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Beijing reaches for the levers: the — Magna Bureau

China's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tariffs and opened an AI incident channel. Th

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A new mine opens in the Pilbara — built with — Magna Bureau

Rio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built modern China still ties the two countries

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Fifteen million barrels and counting — Magna Bureau

Treasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since July 14 — and this is what the end of an oil empir

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Rare-earth checks clog Indonesia's — Magna Bureau

About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin s

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China's factories blink back to life as — Magna Bureau

The September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion. With the State Council promising incremental stimulus and the data landing Wednesday, Beijing is managing expecta

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No clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…

Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…

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The workaround chip: China may let ByteDance buy

Beijing is weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 — a workstation-class chip analysts expect to slip past US export…

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Trump signs “morally binding” AI accord with — Magna Bureau

Trump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally…

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The UN gave Haiti's anti-gang force six more — Magna Bureau

The Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force's mandate to March 2027 by 12 votes to 3 — hours after gangs killed 11 people in Haiti's…

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Trump accuses Xi of arming America's… — Magna Bureau

The US president says China is 'dumping' weapons into the hands of narco-terrorists killing Americans — hours before confirming a face-to-face with Xi in South Korea. Accusation and embrace, on the sa

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Huawei Folds Its Chips Like Paper — and… — Magna Bureau

The Mate 90's Kirin 9050 Pro squeezes more power from older factories with a 3D wiring trick, while DeepSeek hands Huawei's AI chips an open-source software arsenal. The catch, Huawei admits, is capac

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China Turns Off the Fuel Taps for October — Magna Bureau

On Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau. PetroChina is canceling cargoes, Asia's diesel squeeze is deepening, and the world is learning

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Ukraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian… — Magna Bureau

Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.

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