The United States has quietly built up its largest copper stockpile in decades, a move that is distorting the trade patterns of this red metal as it flows to the rest of the world. The influx of copper into U.S. inventories has accelerated over the past year, exacerbating upward pressure on prices.

On the day Celsius shut down, it also used the term "temporary liquidity adjustment." Four years later, BlockFills turned to the same page in the same dictionary. This "powerful" lending platform, which claims to serve over 2,000 institutional clients and process over $61.1 billion in transactions by 2025, initiated an internal circuit breaker...

Former Tesla executive and AI guru Andrej Karpathy described it as the closest he has ever seen to the tipping point of "science fiction takeoff"; Elon Musk went even further, saying it was "the early stages of the singularity."

Those companies that started by relying solely on "storytelling and leverage" are now paying the price for their aggressive expansion.

Zijin Mining has raised its 2028 gold production target by nearly 30%, aiming to become one of the top three globally. Simultaneously, it has significantly increased its lithium production capacity plan, with a target of 120,000 tons of equivalent lithium carbonate production in 2026 and 270,000 to 320,000 tons in 2028. According to preliminary calculations in the announcement, the company's revenue in 2025 is expected to reach 345 billion yuan, an increase of approximately 28% compared to 2022, and net profit attributable to shareholders is expected to be 51 billion to 52 billion yuan, an increase of approximately 155% to 160%.