The lithium market is confronting some tough truths after an epic boom and bust. Is it doomed to repeat the cycle over again?

Mark Burton Annie Lee James Attwood Yvonne Li

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The Gold Market Hunts for Answers Behind Bullion’s Sudden Surge
Gravity defying rally has confused seasoned analysts
Gold prices have surged since February to new all-time highs bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Why is gold suddenly rising right now? trib.al/3FiLl7S

A record delivery of lead into #LME warehouses in #Singapore has underscored the city state’s emergence as a dumping ground for surplus industrial metals bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/Mark Burton

Seeking personal advice!👂🏼

Who has handled living far overseas while a parent back home has a long-term and terminal illness? 😒

How did you deal with that on a practical/moral/emotional level? Please DM to share anything...

Senator Elizabeth Warren urged Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates, saying the hikes have “completely tanked major renewable infrastructure projects across the country.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

It takes a lot of energy to build an electric vehicle – so are EVs actually cleaner than their gas-guzzling counterparts?

According to a new report by BloombergNEF, the answer is a resounding yes.

🚨BREAKING🚨

UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest since 1879, new Carbon Brief reveals

💷Emissions now 53% below 1990, as GDP up 82%
❤️‍🔥Drop in 2023 largely unrelated to policy
⛰️Coal now lowest since 1730s (!)
🚗Transport is largest sector, then buildings
⚡️Power now likely…

Breaking my twitter fast to note that my colleagues did an amazing dataviz deep drive on the battery metals going into #ElectricVehicles and that challenges of decoupling from China --check it out Mark Burton Joe Deaux Craig Trudell Heejin Kim dataviz by Jeremy Scott Diamond

Read The Big Take: Joe Biden’s dream to create a homegrown EV supply chain by marginalizing China could backfire on Tesla, and the wider US car industry.

🔗⚡️🚗🚙🇨🇳🇺🇸: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

“This is literally the worst time to discover the ‘oh shit’ button doesn’t work.”

The first of a three-part series based on more than 40 interviews, Bloomberg looks at Western efforts to create an alternative, China-free, global metals supply chain.

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“Twenty years ago, I told the director of the DLA: ‘We’re buying all this cobalt from you; at some point we’ll be selling it back to you,’” says Mark Kristoff, CEO of specialist metals trading house Traxys SA. “Now governments are waking up.”

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Do I need to learn Mandarin - or any other language - if AI can make me sound this convincing?

What is this witchcraft? 😳

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For most banks, giving staffers no bonus at all — a process known as getting “zeroed out” or receiving a “goose egg,” a “doughnut” or a “bagel” — is done sparingly...

Dinesh Nair

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UK Metals Sanctions Are Dividing the Biggest Traders and Banks

Mark Burton Archie Alfred Cang

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