Anti-Musk" Sentiment Surges! Tesla Loses California: EV Market Share Drops Below 50% ① In California, the stronghold of the US EV market, as the "anti-Musk" sentiment continues to rise, Tesla's sales in the state have sharply declined, losing its dominant position in the state's EV market. ② According to the latest data, Tesla's Q1 registrations in California fell by 15.1% YoY, and its EV market share in the state dropped from 55.5% to 43.9% compared to the same period last year. (Cailian Press)

[SMM Analysis: Indonesia and Panama Relax Copper Concentrate Export Policies — Can Distant Water Quench Immediate Thirst?] According to SMM, the Indonesian government announced on Monday that it had issued a six-month copper concentrate export permit to Freeport Indonesia. Today, Freeport Indonesia stated that it has obtained an export permit for 1.27 million mt of copper concentrates from the Indonesian Ministry of Trade, allowing shipments of Freeport copper concentrates from Papua Port to commence. Meanwhile, on March 13, the President of Panama announced the approval of the export of 120,000 mt of Cobre Panama copper concentrates.

Price of gasoline The price of gas is a multi-faceted, very complex topic, influenced by dozens of factors at local and also international level. Studying how these dynamics work can shed some light on global trends and fluctuations of the gasoline price that consumers and industries encounter inside and outside their countries. Gasoline prices are influenced by a wide variety of things, including crude oil prices, refining costs, distribution and marketing, taxes on the local and state level, supply and demand, and overall market appearance. Moreover, international relationships and policy-making related interplays also highly affects these prices providing a larger canvas in regards to how gas pricing gets imprinted at global level.

ICRA stated that the anticipated European Union carbon tax would likely minimally affect domestic primary aluminium producers.