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Hormuz Redraws the Map of Energy Trade
Qatar is shopping for American LNG, Washington is courting Russian diesel and Indonesia is keeping its gas at home. Prices stay high anyway.
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Regular Gas
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Diesel
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+1.6%
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+2.6%
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Friday's Settlement Closes the Week With Oil, Metals and Clean Power Each Telling Its Own Story
The final session of the week gave traders a clear read on how energy producers, miners and renewable names are positioned heading into the weekend.
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Leaders and Laggards Define Thursday's Close Across Energy, Metals and Clean Power
Thursday's settlement is best read through its top and bottom performers, with oil, miners and renewables each telling a separate story.
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Gulf Oil Is Back. Cheap Oil Is Not.
Gulf crude exports have climbed back to prewar volumes, yet Brent still trades above $100. The reason is a tanker system rebuilt around Hormuz, and the bottleneck now is ships, not barrels.
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PHP2Shell Critical Vulnerability: Patch Now
PHP shipped emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution flaws after a leak forced an early release. Attackers were already probing.
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Monday's Settlement Opens the Week With a Name-by-Name Reckoning Across Energy and Metals
The first session of the week left oil majors, miners and clean-energy funds each telling their own story, with the day's extremes coming from individual names.
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Satellite Spectra Land in the GIS Desktop
ArcGIS Pro now reads commercial hyperspectral imagery natively, just as a second Tanager satellite begins imaging. Exploration geologists can screen for minerals from a desk, within limits.
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Georgia Gas Plant Tests the AI Power Thesis
A record federal loan is financing a gas plant half a mile from a Google data-center site. Its owner says the plant is not for data centers, and Georgia regulators' own staff say much of the state's new generation rests on speculation.
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Thursday's Close Sorts the Field by Breadth, from Oil Majors to Miners to Solar
Thursday's session is read through its extremes and its breadth, with oil, metals, uranium and clean energy each telling a slightly different story.
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Mining Press Roundup: Tech Giants Eye Equity in Anglo American as Copper Slides
Anglo American says technology companies are weighing equity stakes to lock in metals for data centres, while Antofagasta's softer outlook and a chip-stock rout pushed copper miners lower.
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Trump's Greenland Mining Boom Is Years Off
Trump says 'massive' exploration is about to begin in Greenland. Greenland's own mining official says otherwise, and the permits, the ice and the paperwork agree with him. Three small-cap stocks traded on the claim anyway.
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Venture Global Bets on the Turbine Queue
Venture Global has no announced data-center customer. It has reserved a place in line for gas turbines, and in the AI power race that may be the scarcer asset.
Mining
Wednesday's Close Shifts the Focus to Uranium, Rare Earths and the Battery Supply Chain
Beyond the oil majors, the session's more telling signals came from uranium, lithium, rare earths and precious metals, with breadth and the day's extremes setting the tone.
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Mining Press Roundup: SSR Mining Buys Next Door to Marigold With a Roxmore Bid
SSR Mining's all-cash offer for Nevada explorer Roxmore and a longer Marigold mine life lead a day of pipeline-building updates from Equinox, Arafura, Fortuna, Eldorado and Lynas.
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Tuesday's Session Weighs Oil Producers, Miners and Clean Power Against Each Other
Breadth, the gap between the best and worst performers, and the split between bullion, copper and solar set the tone for Tuesday's energy and materials trade.
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Maps Get an AI Co-Pilot, With Conditions
ArcGIS Pro's latest release pushes AI into everyday geoprocessing just as oil, mining and federal programs lean harder on maps. The operators using it say the data has to be right first.
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Monday's Session Puts Bullion, Oil Majors and Clean Power Under the Microscope
The new week opens with producers, miners and renewable names each telling their own story, led by a few outsized movers at either end of the board.
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Saudi Pipeline Bypass Meets Houthi Missiles
Riyadh wants a pipeline network that lets its crude skip Hormuz. The Houthis are shooting at the capital that hosts the plan, and at the sea lanes it depends on.
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Building Wind Was the Easy Part
Britain set a wind record in September and power prices still climbed sharply. The gas shock shows the real bottlenecks are pricing rules, wires and storage, and the US is making one corner of this harder.
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Satellites Shrink the Search, Not the Drill
Free radar, commercial colour imaging and even a $10 million asteroid probe are turning orbital data into routine exploration tooling. None of it removes the need to touch the rock.
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