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  • 24 March 2021, Egypt, Suez: A ship sails along the waterway of the Suez Canal after the resumption of the navigation traffic following the partial refloating of the “Ever Given”, a container ship operated by the Evergreen Marine Corporation. The state-run Suez Canal Authority (SCA) reported that eight tugboats are trying to shift the Panamanian supertanker after it ran aground in the southern end of the Suez Canal and blocked the traffic in both directions. The ship turned sideways in the Canal, while on route from China to Rotterdam, due to reduced visibility that resulted from a dust storm hitting the area, according to SCA. Photo: Ahmed Shaker/dpa (Photo by Ahmed Shaker/picture alliance via Getty Images)International

    Dislodging a grounded 200,000-ton tanker isn’t easy

    By Ann Koh, Alex Longley, and others
  • A worker wearing a protective ventilator mask inspects copper cathode and anode sheets in an electrolytic tank in the electrolysis shop of the JSC Kola Mining & Metallurgical Co (Kola MMC) plant, a unit of MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC, in Monchegorsk, Russia, on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Copper extended its breakneck rally, moving closer to a record high set a decade ago, as investors pile into metals on bets that rebounding economies will further tighten supplies. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Investors are suddenly obsessed with ‘supercycles’

    By Mark Burton, Thomas Biesheuvel, and others
  • A methanol plant and oil wells on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of Iran, 13th March 2000. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

    Oil slips from its eight-month high as OPEC+ tensions rise

    By Robert Tuttle, Alex Longley, and others