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CME Plans World's First Tungsten Futures As Booming Missile Demand May Spark Severe 2030 Shortage
CME Plans World's First Tungsten Futures As Booming Missile Demand May Spark Severe 2030 Shortage
CME Group plans to launch the first tungsten futures contract as deepening resource nationalism, Chinese export restrictions, and rising demand from the global rearmament cycle intensify Western governments' focus on securing conflict-free materials and highlight the industrial base's urgent need to hedge future price risk. These new contracts would introduce exchange-traded forward pricing to a market that currently relies heavily on spot prices and has limited visibility into future pricing.
Trading is expected to begin in...
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Senate Democrats Introduce Bill To Break Up Major Meatpacking Companies
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Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 14, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
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Guilfoyle Hit With Defamation Suit By Donor Behind $100,000 Amex Allegations
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Trump donor Eric Deters has sued Kimberly Guilfoyle and her lawyers for defamation, escalating the dispute over an alleged $100,000 American Express payment request that preceded her departure as U.S. ambassador to Greece. Deters announced in a Thursday Facebook post that he filed in Kentucky state court. The defendants include attorneys Jesse Binnall and David M. Schwartz, CBS News reported.
Deters had previewed the lawsuit in a CNN interview Monday, accusing Guilfoyle's camp of falsely dismissing his text messages as fabricated, branding...
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