The Guardian has one of those terribly interesting (well I think so) slightly off-the-rail economic indicator articles for dummies. It mentions quite a few different things, but this bit caught my eye in particular: Yesterday the price of copper hit an all-time record of $8,000 a tonne, driven by frantic buying and selling by commodity [...]

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