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Tuesday, May 21

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Can’t Make This Up: Oakland Replaces Traffic Lights With Stop Signs After Homeless Steal Copper Wire

Oakland city officials decided to take down a traffic light at a busy intersection after homeless people repeatedly stole copper wire from an electrical box that supplied power to the lights.

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Oakland Swaps Traffic Lights For Stop Signs As People Are Stealing Them For Copper

www.carscoops.com

To put it simply, locals are quite unhappy about the situation as traffic is getting worse

Teen fintech Copper had to abruptly discontinue its banking, debit products

techcrunch.com

Another fintech startup, and its customers, has been gravely impacted by the implosion of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse. Copper Banking, a digital banking service aimed at teens, notified its customers on May 12 that it would be…

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EV Transition Targets Out Of Reach Without More Copper Mines — IEF Secretary General

cleantechnica.com

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Targets for 100 percent electric vehicle adoption by 2035 cannot be achieved without an unprecedented acceleration in copper mining, according to the Secretary General of the International Energy Forum Joseph…

Montco Copper Thieves Used Bolt Cutters In PECO Station Break-In, Troopers Say

dailyvoice.com

State police in Montgomery County are investigating a burglary at a PECO substation on May 8.

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Oakland Thwarts Copper Thieves With Novel Stop Sign Technology

jalopnik.com

City officials in Oakland, California decided to replace a traffic light at an intersection with stop signs last week. This decision wasn’t part of some urbanist initiative to calm traffic; the city couldn’t keep the light functional.

What Could Derail The Copper Rally?

oilprice.com

Via MetalMiner.com Overall, the Copper Monthly Metals Index (MMI) rose 17.36% from April to May. The copper price uptrend accelerated throughout April. Bullish momentum saw prices surge nearly 14% from the close of March. By April 29,…

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3 Stocks To Watch As Copper Surges To Record Highs: 'Something Is Cooking In China'

www.benzinga.com

Copper prices reaching record highs due to demand from electrification and strategic stockpiling by China. Top stock picks include ANFGF, FCX, and TECK.

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Two men arrested after allegedly using wheelie bin to steal copper cable from Washington Galleries

Two men, aged 42 and 39, were arrested in the early hours of Monday morning after reports of a burglary

What record highs for gold, silver and copper are saying about the economy

www.marketwatch.com

A rally in metals has grabbed headlines recently, but as gold, silver, and copper reach fresh highs, traders may need to weigh the potential for limits to further upside for prices, and reassess what the moves suggest about the global…

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Monday, May 20

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VIDEO: Oakland Removes Intersection's Traffic Lights amid Copper Thefts Blamed on Homeless

www.breitbart.com

Officials in Oakland, California, removed traffic lights from an intersection and replaced them with stop signs amid rampant thefts some attribute to a homeless encampment.

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Copper mining could be a bottleneck in switch to green energy

www.futurity.org

Renewable energy’s copper needs are beyond what copper mines can produce at the current rate, researchers report.

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BT ditches landline switchover deadline - new date for copper cut off revealed

www.express.co.uk

BT has announced a timetable change for switching its customers from old copper based landlines to digital broadband connections

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Las Vegas hosts Phoenix following Copper’s 38-point game

wtop.com

Phoenix Mercury (1-1, 0-1 Western Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (2-0, 2-0 Western Conference) Las Vegas; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT…

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Oakland locals blame homeless encampment for city removing traffic lights to stop copper thieves

nypost.com

The lights had been working on and off for months due to criminals tampering with the electricity and stealing the wires, the report said.

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