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August WTI crude oil (CLQ23 ) this morning is up +1.67 (+2.29%), and Aug RBOB gasoline (RBQ23 ) is up +4.52 (+1.76%). Crude oil and gasoline prices this morning are moving higher, with crude posting a 5-week high and gasoline posting a 2-week high. A slump in the dollar index...

Rare Earth Metals have unusual fluorescent, conductive, and magnetic properties. China dominates the worldwide market for rare earth minerals, with 60% of global production and 85% of processing capacity. The rare earth minerals are critical inputs in semiconductors.

Australia urges the nations to publish details of the police deal which it says will ‘invite further regional contest’.

September S&P 500 futures (ESU23) are up +0.10%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU23) are up +0.13% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices ended the regular session higher as investors digested remarks from several Federal Reserve officials while awaiting the release of Wednesday’s consumer price index data…

September S&P 500 futures (ESU23) are down -0.04%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU23) are up +0.07% this morning after three major U.S. benchmark indices ended the regular session higher as investors digested remarks from several Federal Reserve officials while awaiting the release of Wednesday’s consumer price index data…

An industry group says China’s auto sales rose 8.8% over a year earlier in the first half of 2023 as electric vehicle purchases surged

Head of data security Will Farrell tells parliamentary committee Australian data accessible ‘on a very strict basis’

The pact between the two countries is likely to raise concerns among the South Pacific island's traditional partners including Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Indonesia’s top diplomat is warning of the threat posed by nuclear weapons, saying that Southeast Asia is “one miscalculation away from apocalypse” and pressing for world powers to sign a treaty to keep the region free from such arms