Copper Slides 4%, Oil Tops $100, Robusta Up 32%, and Hormuz Transit Drops

<p>Escalating Middle East hostilities have choked Strait of Hormuz shipping traffic to seven vessels, catapulting crude oil above $100 per barrel and lifting global coal demand to a record 8.94 billion tonnes as utilities scramble for power generation fuel. Concurrently, copper prices and mining shares dropped over 4% after White House tariff deliberations stalled over domestic inflation concerns, while Russian missile strikes damaged Bunge's Dnipro sunflower oil processing plant and robusta coffee exports surged 32%.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.commoditiesinstitute.com/">https://www.commoditiesinstitute.com</a></p><p>FOLLOW US @commoditiesinstitute</p><p>Instagram - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/commoditiesinstitute">https://www.instagram.com/commoditiesinstitute</a></p><p>Facebook - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/61584221970761">https://www.facebook.com/61584221970761</a></p><p>TikTok - <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@commoditiesinstitute">https://www.tiktok.com/@commoditiesinstitute</a></p><p>YouTube - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@commoditiesinstitute">https://www.youtube.com/@commoditiesinstitute</a></p><p>Listen to the Podcast:</p><p>Spotify Podcast - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6eO2y40mmH5J8boeF0ANjJ">https://open.spotify.com/show/6eO2y40mmH5J8boeF0ANjJ</a></p><p>Apple Podcast - <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-commodities-institute-podcast/id1826784341">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-commodities-institute-podcast/id1826784341</a></p><p>Commodities Market Oil Metals News Trading Agriculture Policy Politics Energy</p>