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

By Mark Burton, Alex Longley, and others

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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

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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

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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 Images

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

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‘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 Images

Investors are suddenly obsessed with ‘supercycles’

By Mark Burton, Thomas Biesheuvel, and others

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

By Mark Burton and Bloomberg