Seven deals, four federal channels, one goal: in just five weeks, Washington backed a rare earths and magnet supply chain worth over $4 billion combined in an effort to forge its own resilient supply chains.

Here are the key takeaways from market participants on US ferrous scrap metal prices, market confidence, inventory and more from our July survey.

A massive $600B wave of AI capex is crowding out residential construction, keeping interest rates high and suppressing North American wood products demand through 2026.

New York-headquartered global commodities company Hartree Partners will take the first 330,000 tonnes of copper concentrate from Blue Moon Metals' Nussir project in Norway, Christian Kargl-Simard, the critical metals developer's chief executive officer, told Fastmarkets on Monday July 6.

A practical read on where US wheat and corn supply stands as the season progresses, and what the second half of the year could hold for buyers in food, animal feed and pet food.

The energy shock is reshaping wood products costs. An energy shock is driving up costs across the wood products supply chain and clouding the 2026 housing recovery.

Prices for tungsten hexafluoride (WF6), a specialty gas used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing and increasingly linked to AI-driven chip demand, have surged in recent months amid tightening supply and growing expectations for next-generation memory production.

Chinese molybdenum-related stocks have rallied in recent months on the heels of a surge in the semiconductor sector driven by the AI boom, given the transition from tungsten to molybdenum in the manufacturing of next-generation memory chips, sources told Fastmarkets.

Discover what food and beverage commodity intelligence really means and why independent benchmarks give procurement teams the credibility to challenge costs and defend budgets.

Fastmarkets’ weekly recap of the main movements in global cash markets.