In this month’s edition, we take a closer look at copper and what Trump’s potential tariffs could mean for the metal’s trade flows and prices. As the US investigation into copper imports ...

Barium is a metal in group IIA of the periodic table with atomic number 56, an atomic weight of 137.34, and a density of 3.5 Mg/m 3. Its melting point is 714 C, and it boils at 1640 C. The electronic ...

President Donald Trump’s trade war may be setting Dr. Copper up for a malpractice suit. The industrial metal, whose nickname comes from its talent to help gauge economic health, settled above $5 ...

but the precious metal’s stodgier industrial metal cousin copper is shining, too. That rally may fade, though. Copper prices have taken off, gaining more than 20% in 2025 to just under $5 a ...

(Bloomberg) -- Copper futures surged after President Donald Trump ordered the US Commerce Department to examine possible imports tariffs on all forms of the metal. The move was the latest in a ...

But "increasingly, copper is a precious metal" too, says Alan Livsey in the Financial Times. Copper is becoming scarce. The yield of copper from each unit of ore mined is dwindling. In 2010 the 15 ...

The metal climbed in recent weeks after President Donald Trump ordered a probe into copper imports, sparking a rally in US prices and a rush to ship metal there ahead of any levies. The global ...

The agency has already been increasing metal stocks including cobalt in recent years, and has also replaced old copper inventories with newer ones in rotation. Beijing’s move is primarily about ...

Cobalt, copper, nickel and lithium are among the metals the government plans to purchase, according to people familiar with the discussion. They asked not to be identified as the conversations are ...