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Ford suddenly halts F-150 production at Michigan and Kansas City plants; thousands of workers told to stay home. Here's whyFord has halted or reduced F-150 production at its Michigan and Missouri plants because of a supplier-related parts shortage. Around 3,500 ...- Apple’s $2,000-plus foldable iPhone was a decade in the makingApple is on the brink of unveiling its foldable iPhone, a remarkable leap in mobile design that has been in the works for years. Spearheade...
- Rising CO₂ is making the planet hotter, but it is also making Earth greener: A 2026 study analyzing 40 years of satellite data found carbon dioxide was responsible for 82.8% of global greening through 2021Earth has experienced sustained global greening from 1982 to 2021. Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide was the dominant driver behind this tr...
- In 2024, researchers tested crushed waste concrete as a base for Chesapeake oyster reefs; oyster spat grew and survived with no detectable hydrocarbon leachingIn the Chesapeake Bay, recycled concrete rubble is proving to be a nursery for young oysters. Scientists have discovered that this crushed ...
- Trump to host mining CEOs as administration seeks minerals for defense supply chainsThe White House needs critical minerals to replenish weapons stockpiles depleted during the Iran conflict and reduce U.S. dependence on Chi...
- In India, Iran war forces Diet Coke to roll out a bigger can, heftier price tagCoca-Cola has raised Diet Coke prices in India by over 10% after the ongoing Middle East conflict disrupted supplies of aluminium cans. The...
- Trump’s 100% generic drug duty threatens US low-cost supplyPresident Donald Trump has given generic drugmakers two years to shift manufacturing to the US or face 100% import tariffs from August 2028...
- The New Oil? Why the world is chasing copperCopper has emerged as a strategic commodity powering the global shift towards clean energy, electric vehicles and digital infrastructure. W...
- Aluminum’s war shock blunted by dark transits and Chinese supplyThe Iran war triggered one of the biggest shocks to the global aluminum market, raising fears of widespread smelter shutdowns and prices su...
- Iran war: Centre pushes auto sector to shift to EVs amid energy crunchIndia's government is asking car and parts makers to use electricity instead of oil fuels. This is to save energy during the West Asia cris...
- Ford's F-150 chokepoint shows the limits of the trade warFord Motor Company faces a substantial profit hit from an aluminum mill fire and trade tariffs. This disruption exposes the risks in the au...
- Aluminum traders game out the options: Sanctions, tariffs or banAluminum, the most widely used base metal, has already had a tumultuous year. Prices rocketed to a record in March but tumbled as the econo...
- Billionaire K M Birla to spend $7.2 billion on aluminum demand betThe company owned by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla will invest the amount mainly across its businesses in India and North America. It ha...
- Indian aluminum mills get fewest coal rail rakes in six monthsThe industry got an average of 18.4 coal-laden carriages a day in the first half of March, the lowest since the 17.8 rakes it received in S...
- Ukraine war spurs shipments of Aluminum from China to EuropeThe unusual shipments from the world’s biggest consuming nation have been made possible by a widening gap between futures prices in London ...
- Europe is desperate for aluminum and traders are getting creativeWith demand booming, any further supply disruptions would be a big blow to manufacturers who are already paying steep prices to get hold of...
- Hold that Tesla! Inflation will be made of aluminumThe surge matters precisely because of the ubiquity of aluminum in modern life. It’s the most widely used non-ferrous metal, ahead of coppe...
- Silicon’s 300% surge throws another price shock at the worldThe shortage in silicon metal is the latest in a litany of disruptions, from snarled supply chains to a power crunch, that are creating a d...
- Aluminum industry frets that its supply snarls have just begunGlobal supply chains, with container shipping as their backbone, are struggling to keep pace with the demand for goods and overcome labor d...
- Why the biggest metals rally of the year may have further to runAluminum trades at $2,158 a metric ton in London, the highest in five years.
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