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“It is obviously expected that a significant slowdown in the U.S. economy will become apparent once data publication resumes,” the commodity analyst adds.

Still, “the lingering possibility of tariffs on refined copper will continue to impact the market,” said Roukaya Ibrahim, commodity and energy chief strategist at BCA Research.

His father had been murdered when he was a small boy—though no one ever talked about that—and his mother had found a job as a bookkeeper at a commodities trading firm.

—In commodities, gold prices rose again, hitting their highest level in nearly three weeks on expectations of further U.S. interest-rate cuts and as U.S. lawmakers move closer to ending the government shutdown.

With commodity prices where they are, the company expects to continue generating strong cash flow going forward, Chief Financial Officer Graham Shuttleworth said.