On July 9, 2025, President Trump announced the imposition of a sweeping 50 percent tariff on all imported copper, effective August 1. The announcement followed a five-month investigation under Section ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook for the ...

While gold is often steals headlines, copper is arguably the most essential resource for the modern world. However, as demand for the base metal grows, supply is becoming increasingly restricted — in ...

S&P Global’s new report, Copper in the Age of AI: The Challenges of Electrification, warns that copper demand could surge 50 percent by 2040, reaching 42 million tonnes as the global push for ...

US copper futures have punched through to a fresh record, the first new peak since the summer's tariff-driven spike jolted metals markets and forced manufacturers to rethink their cost assumptions.