Yusuf Khan

Copper has had a volatile 2023. Fundamentals have shifted due to labor disputes, environmental protests and swings in demand, with the price of a metric ton fluctuating within a $1,500 range before reaching the year-end almost flat compared with January. Prices began the year at $8,320 a metric ton, and on Dec. 13 the three-month London Metal Exchange contract was trading at $8,327 a ton.

Metal prices were rising, with increasing Chinese earnings helping to boost prices in muted trading.

Oversupply and weak Chinese demand are likely to peg back prices for another year

Lab-grown diamonds were relatively unknown in the jewelry industry a decade ago, but now make up a fifth of diamond sales by value.

GDI's silicon anodes can help cut reliance on Chinese materials, but the startup plans to build its first factory in Germany with EU funding

U.S. Political Support for Deep-Sea Mining Is Growing Despite Pushback From Allies

Is it a lab-grown stone? Solar-powered? Diamonds are no exception to younger consumers’ growing concerns about how products are made.

Two Cambridge students are mobilizing M.B.A. candidates to make a commitment to fight climate change throughout their careers.

A WSJ Article by Yusuf Khan showcasing a ‘pledge' by future business leaders to “make a careerlong commitment to combat climate change” gets panned by a real scientist denouncing climate alarmism as a “monstrous lie.”

LanzaTech's technology can cut steel plants' CO2 output by a third while also creating ethanol for environmentally friendly plastics and fuel.