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Silver is up 29.6%, gold is up 15.1%, and the Bloomberg Industrial Metals Index (including copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and lead) is up 17.7%. All three have bested the S&P 500 (+11.8%), Russell 2000 (+2.6%), the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index (-1.4%), US REITs (-2.7%), and treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) (-0.02%) returns year to date ...
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Annual U.S. biodiesel imports doubled from 2022 to 2023 to 33,000 barrels per day (b/d) and continued to rise in the first two months of 2024, according to the most recent data available. Much of the increase in biodiesel imports has come from Germany, and the remaining increase has come mostly from elsewhere in Europe, where a biodiesel surplus has lowered ...