Issue 016 · This week
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Named for the round-hulled Roman merchant ship, Corbita decodes how elections, sanctions, central-bank decisions, and climate shocks ripple through global commodity markets — explained for readers, not traders.
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This week's reading
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The new geopolitics of oil: pipelines, sanctions, and the shifting East
How rerouted Russian crude and Gulf alignment reshape the price floor for the next decade.
Copper is the new oil — and supply isn't keeping up
Electrification demand collides with a decade of underinvestment in Chilean and Peruvian mines.
Climate, conflict, and the price of bread
Why wheat volatility is now structural, and what it means for emerging-market stability.
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