Exploring the factors behind the surge in copper prices and the implications of disruptions in production and high interest rates. Additionally, a first-hand account of a correspondent's visit to a Hamas tunnel in Gaza.
Copper is set to finish the year as the top-performing industrial metal, and the FT’s John Paul Rathbone recently visited a Hamas tunnel and talks about his experience. Plus, in the first part of a three-part series, the FT’s John Reed goes to Varanasi to show how India’s digital transformation is going.
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