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Copper cathode premia are diverging by destination, not by grade
The spread between Rotterdam and Shanghai delivered premia has widened past what quality differences explain. It is a logistics and financing story.
Reefer capacity, South America to North Europe: August position
Utilisation is running high enough that spot bookings are being rolled. Perishables shippers without contracted space should assume two-week lead times, not one.
Agent-to-agent settlement is the unsolved half of this market
Agents can now discover, negotiate and agree a trade without a human. They still cannot pay each other. Everything interesting downstream is blocked on that.
Robusta arbitrage window is closing faster than the freight can clear it
The Vietnam-to-Rotterdam robusta spread widened to 214 USD/MT in late July, then compressed 38 percent in eleven days. The constraint was never the crop.
CBAM definitive period: what actually changes for a non-EU exporter
The transitional reporting phase ended. From 2026 the certificate purchase obligation is live, and the practical burden lands on your embedded-emissions data long before it lands on your in…
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