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...The power supply issue has also fuelled concerns about the latest technology boom’s environmental impact....
...That is a reminder of how exposed the world’s chip supply is to seismic risk....
...Aluminium, which is used in cans, aeroplanes and buildings, surged as much as 9.4 per cent on Monday, the largest intraday rise since the contract was launched in its current form 37 years ago, before falling...
...There is “much more demand than supply”, he said....
...Topco was one of the earliest Asian suppliers to set up an office in the US state of Arizona, where TSMC and Intel are both building advanced factories, but the company has put construction of a planned...
...Ultimately, it went ahead in a limited part of the building, with additional safety mitigations in place....
...Copper — a key barometer of global economic health given its use in everything from buildings to power lines — for delivery in June is $8,832 per tonne, $105 more expensive than the spot price....
...On that basis, its $18.25bn acquisition of speciality building products supplier SRS Distribution, including debt, offers good news and bad....
...“We continue to see a direct threat to regional oil supplies in an expanded war scenario.”...
...Both supply and affordability improved dramatically almost overnight. But it didn’t last....
...Nine people have been killed and almost 1,000 injured in Taiwan after the country’s strongest earthquake in almost 25 years levelled buildings, halted rail traffic and forced the evacuation of semiconductor...
...Panel members include current serving national ambassadors to the WTO, and the process is regarded as being influenced more by political positioning and the general vibe around the building, and can be more...
...Something to watch By 2030 the amount of lithium, a critical metal for building batteries, will be 30 per cent higher than supply. Demand for copper will also outstrip supply by 10 per cent....
...Big housing associations in England have warned that building new affordable homes is becoming financially impossible, worsening the downturn in property supply....
...Burns’s comments highlight the challenge Europe faces in building a supply chain independent of China, the world’s leading supplier of graphite and other raw materials needed for batteries, without an injection...
...Two days earlier in Ukraine, by contrast, aerial bombardment from Russia succeeded in destroying Kyiv’s largest power plant, and damaging apartment buildings....
...The mismanaged budgeting is a blow to Glencore, which holds 17.7 per cent of the company’s shares and is entitled to future supply from the mine for 10 years....
...Then there is the issue of water supply....
...“The countries which have excelled at building nuclear stations have done so because they made a clear commitment to back nuclear, they have built fleets and they kept on building,” points out Greatrex,...
...It is not conducive to building the more resilient (and diversified) value chains needed to mitigate future shocks, including climate change....
...Between that realisation and the reality of building a European defence industry it’s going to take many years and even many decades,” he said....
...“Our commitment to building more homes and boosting social housing supply remains, and our £11.5bn Affordable Homes Programme will deliver thousands more affordable homes to rent and buy across the country...
...Moves are being made to alleviate the supply problems. For example, several cable plant projects are planned in the UK. But boosting supply won't be quick, easy or cheap....
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