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            <title><![CDATA[Glencore’s Traders Score Big Profits as War Rattles Energy Markets]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/glencore-s-traders-score-big-profits-as-war-roils-energy-markets</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Burton]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:10:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Copper Holds Steady as Traders Weigh Risk of Protracted Conflict]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:41:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aluminum Drops After Iran Says Strait of Hormuz Is Fully Open]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Archie Hunter]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:44:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[From Cars to Cans: How the Iran War Is Affecting World’s Aluminum Supply]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:00:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aluminum Market Enters a Prolonged Supply ‘Black Hole’]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[JPMorgan has been warning of a “serious and prolonged” outage that it says has now arrived.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:13:04 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UK Picks Bidder for Sanjeev Gupta’s Former Steel Business]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:44:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Copper Prices Slip as Traders Eye Talks to End Iran Conflict]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:42:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Copper Rises to Six-Week High as Iran Talks Hope Aids Metals]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:20:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UAE Aluminum Smelter to Sell Raw Materials After Damage from Strikes]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:17:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Copper Rises as Trump Floats Timeline for US to End Iran Attacks]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aluminum Records Best Month in Two Years as War Roils Supplies]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:45:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran’s Attacks on Gulf Aluminum Plants Threaten Supply Crisis]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-29/iran-war-comes-for-aluminum-pitching-key-metal-into-crisis</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Burton]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:48:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Boliden Plunges as Seismic Activity Prompts Cut at Key Zinc Mine]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:52:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Copper Falls and Aluminum Climbs as War Keeps Traders on Edge]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:47:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Copper Jumps as Trump Postpones Strikes on Iranian Energy Assets]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:10:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aluminum Falls More Than 8% on LME, Biggest Drop Since 2018]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:49:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Industrial Metals Tumble as Iran War Fuels Fears Over Economy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:27:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[LME Trading Restored After Two-Hour Halt Roiled Metals Markets]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:03:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aluminum Gives Up Gain After Smelter Cut as War Weighs on Metals]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:13:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bahrain Starts Output Cuts at World’s Top Aluminum Smelter]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Burton]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:17:14 GMT</pubDate>
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