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Aluminum Market Descends Into Supply 'Black Hole'
Aluminum Market Descends Into Supply 'Black Hole'
Aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange are climbing into the end of the week, reaching $3,621 a ton and approaching the peak seen during Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The problem now is that the aluminum market has been thrust into a serious supply shock amid the U.S.-Iran conflict in the Middle East, one that is unlikely to be reversed in the near term.
One big problem we highlighted last weekend was that Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA), the Gulf's largest aluminum...
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Authored by Daniel Lacalle,
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The euro area’s flash composite PMI fell to 48.6 in April from 50.7 in March, moving below the 50 threshold that separates expansion from contraction and signalling a quarterly GDP decline of around 0.1 per cent after a 0.2 per cent gain in the first quarter, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
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Protesters Rally Outside OpenAI, Anthropic, And xAI Offices Over Industry Concerns
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Authored by Jason Nelson via decrypt.co,
In brief
200 protesters marched from Anthropic to OpenAI and xAI offices in San Francisco.
Activists called on AI companies to pause development of new frontier AI models.
Organizer Michael Trazzi previously staged a multi-week hunger strike outside Google DeepMind.
Protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on Saturday, stopping outside the offices of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI to call for a conditional pause in the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence.
According to Stop the AI Race...
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