Copper Moves Lower as US Election Undermines AI and Tariff Trade
THE SO WHAT
If copper is repricing because markets doubt the pace of AI data center buildout and tariff risk, your infra and hardware roadmaps are now entangled with electoral cycles. Treat policy and permitting assumptions as first-class variables in long-horizon capex decisions, not background noise.
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