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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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Apr 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Oil Plunges As Iran 'Completely Opens' Hormuz, US Reportedly 'Mulls' $20BN Cash-For-Nukes Deal,
Oil Plunges As Iran 'Completely Opens' Hormuz, US Reportedly 'Mulls' $20BN Cash-For-Nukes Deal,
Summary
Iran's Aragchi says "Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open"
US mulls cash-for-uranium deal as 'three-page' MOU peace plan takes shape
Peace talks reportedly on Sunday in Islamabad
Iran Opens Hormuz
In a rather shocking turn of events, Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Aragchi posted on X that the Strait of Hormuz is open:
"In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire,...
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Jun 28, 2026 / Jason Ditz
Protests in Beirut as Many Lebanese Oppose ‘Shameful’ Israel Deal
Friday’s announcement of a new “trilateral deal” between Israel, Lebanon and the United States quickly proved controversial, and major protests erupted in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Centering around the Shi’ite suburbs of southern Beirut, which have been repeatedly attacked by Israel during the war, the protesters complained it did little to nothing to actually […]
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Aug 8, 2026 / Jacob G. Hornberger
Will Congress Reenact the McCarran Act?
Now that the Trump administration is telling America that communism, once again, poses a grave threat to US “national security,” the question naturally arises: Will the US government revive the programs that protected us from the Reds during the 45 years of the national-security establishment’s old Cold War racket? If so, right at the top […]
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