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Berkshire Hathaway is sitting on a mountain of cash, and Wall Street is paying attention. New CEO Greg Abel was a net buyer of equities in the June-ended quarter, but the headline is the one hundred seventy five billion dollar cash reserve still on the books — a signal that Abel and Buffett see few compelling values at current market levels.
Shifting to commodities, Lundin Mining has cut its full-year copper production guidance after back-to-back severe winter storms hammered its Caserones and Candelaria operations in Chile's Atacama region. That's a meaningful supply disruption in a market already sensitive to any constraint on copper output, and traders will be watching cash cost revisions closely.
And on the geopolitical trade front, China is rerouting around Hormuz Strait disruptions by launching regular commercial shipping through the Arctic — a thirty four hundred mile corridor along Russia's northern coast that Beijing is calling the Ice Silk Road. Sea Legend Line ran its first scheduled voyage Saturday, and if the route proves viable at scale, it reshapes global freight economics considerably.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
