Mark Burton

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  • rows of gold barsFinance

    Gold, copper and oil prices fall as market contagion spreads—’It’s just widespread panic’

    By Mark Burton, Alex Longley, and others
  • man holding gold barsFinance

    Gold is setting record highs, but why prices are soaring now is a complete mystery: ‘The rally is defying a lot of normal thinking’

    By Mark Burton, Jack Ryan, and others
  • Male hand holding piece of liquid gallium close-up

    China’s ‘first warning shot’ on export controls causes 27% jump in price of gallium—a metal vital to tech industries

    By Mark Burton and Bloomberg
  • Traders on the floor of the London Metal Exchange in 2016.Finance

    A data entry error on the London Metal Exchange incorrectly showed that copper was down 77% in the latest tech glitch for the embattled venue

    By Mark Burton and Bloomberg
  • An advertisement for Tsingshan Holding Group Co. in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, March 10, 2022. The Chinese nickel company at the center of a historic short squeeze has secured a package of loans from local and international banks to help it meet a wave of margin calls, according to people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    How the ‘Big Shot’ billionaire tycoon who broke the nickel market managed to claw his short squeeze back from a $10 billion loss

    By Alfred Cang, Jack Farchy, and others
  • Traders, brokers and clerks on the trading floorFinance

    ‘What a debacle’: Nickel trading stops just minutes after reopening as prices plunge

    By Mark Burton and Bloomberg
  • 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
  • TOPSHOT-BRITAIN-METALS-TRADING-ECONOMYInternational

    A Final Bastion of on-the-Job Drinking Vows to Sober Up

    By Mark Burton and Bloomberg