Operational issues at the Grasberg mine, including mudflow disruptions, are impacting copper supply chains in Indonesia amid high demand from data centers and tech firms like Microsoft.

The entities involved

• Indonesia →

  island country in Southeast Asia and Oceania

  • Indonesia is purchasing 48 Kaan fighter jets, discussing bilateral ties and expanding cooperation in trade and defense sectors.Mon 16:40
  • A conference has been held establishing South-South cooperation, drawing on the historical spirit of Bandung.Mon 16:20
• Grasberg →

  municipality of Germany

  Nothing else this week.

• Microsoft →

  American multinational technology corporation

  • Nvidia is expanding its platform deployment across major cloud providers, including Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.Mon 17:31
  • Cloud giants, including Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, are benefiting from overall AI market growth while navigating corporate cost containment and future market competition.Mon 16:50
• S&P Global →

  American publicly traded corporation, formerly McGraw Hill Financial, Inc

  • Geopolitical risk stemming from Middle East tensions is driving market volatility and influencing expectations for FED rate hikes.Sun 23:04
  • Ferrellgas received credit rating upgrades from S&P Global, coinciding with average propane prices being based on the Mont Belvieu market.Fri 13:34

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• Nickel price premiums to copper are collapsing as Indonesian miners dominate the nickel pig iron trade.Mon 06:07
• The global copper market is facing simultaneous pressures from an outage at Indonesia's Gresik smelter and the DRC imposing a blanket export ban on raw copper concentrates.Aug 18
• The mining industry in Indonesia is facing increasing difficulty in reaching ore.Sep 17