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Jeffrey Neal Johnson

Forget Chips, Buy Wires: BHP Hits Highs as Copper Overtakes Iron

While investors obsess over the next fluctuation in chipmaker stock prices, a quiet revolution pushed the world’s largest miner to a record high on Feb. 17, 2026. BHP Group (NYSE: BHP) rose to approximately $74.27, signaling that the digital economy has finally hit a physical constraint: electricity.

For the first time in its 170-year history, BHP’s earnings report revealed a fundamental shift in the global economic engine.

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