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Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodities This Week

Grains prices will once again be a central focus in commodities markets this week after the latest talks to extend Ukraine’s safe-export corridor failed to produce a definitive agreement. Meanwhile, European natural gas prices look to end their longest weekly losing streak since early 2020. Here are five notable charts to watch.

A US-Mexico Crackdown on Drugs Has Stalled Even as Fentanyl Deaths Rise

With a fentanyl crisis deepening across North America, US drug authorities in 2021 identified dozens of Mexican companies suspected of trafficking the narcotic’s key ingredients. They took their findings to the country’s financial-intelligence chief at the time.

Microsoft Inks Deal to Pay for CO2 Stored Below the Sea

Microsoft Corp. is buying credits for CO2 captured at two Danish power plants and then stored beneath the North Sea in a sign that corporate emission-reduction goals can help spur carbon storage technology.

UK’s Sunak Backs Coalition to Send Fighter Aircraft to Ukraine

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged support for a coalition to help provide Ukraine with a fleet of Western-made fighter jets, although he stopped short during a surprise UK visit by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of promising actual aircraft.

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