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  2 min Oct 25, 2026
  
  Live: Copper Jumps After a Landslide Cuts an Andean Mine Road
  
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  Live: Dollar Slips as Asian Exporters Convert Their Receipts
  
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  3 min Oct 24, 2026
  
  Copper's Quiet Squeeze: Why Smelters Are Paying Miners to Take Their Ore
  
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  3 min Oct 23, 2026
  
  Container Rates Fall for a Sixth Week. Here Is Where the Slack Is.
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  The Ship That Runs on Its Own Cargo
  
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  Bitcoin Miners Are Buying the Gas Oil Fields Used to Burn
  
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25 Oct 2026
The Morning Manifest: Fog on the Elbe, copper's road, a ship with no crew

A ship crosses the North Sea with nobody aboard, fog stops the pilots at the mouth of the Elbe, and a landslide in the Andes reaches the copper price before breakfast.
24 Oct 2026
The Morning Manifest: Dollar invoices, copper's squeeze, a ship that burns its cargo

Why a German shipper still pays for freight in dollars, why smelters now pay miners to take their ore, and a gas carrier that fuels itself on what it carries.
21 Oct 2026
The Weekend Edition: Chokepoints

Six straits, two canals and one river carry a third of everything we trade. This weekend we open a special issue on the narrow places, and on what happens when one of them closes.

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