Shanghai Gold Exchange gold T+D closed up 0.95% at 885.59 yuan/gram in the July 14 evening session. Shanghai Gold Exchange silver T+D closed up 2.45% at 14,405 yuan/kg.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s office said she plans to sign an executive order on Tuesday to temporarily halt construction of large data centers for up to one year, effective immediately. The pause applies to facilities with electricity demand of 50 MW or more and is intended to buy time to draft rules that balance environmental objectives with grid reliability. The action makes New York the latest U.S. jurisdiction to curb AI-driven infrastructure growth; no other state has enacted a statewide pause, though dozens of U.S. counties have issued temporary bans and several states have proposed similar measures. Opponents cite risks to local power supply and rising residential utility costs, and some voters have sought to recall officials who support data center development.

French operator CMA CGM’s converted container ship CMA CGM Iron departed Santos early Tuesday. The vessel is retrofitted to run on methanol, ethanol or conventional bunker fuel and will call at Sri Lanka and Singapore en route to China. Using Brazilian ethanol as marine fuel could create a sizeable new export outlet for Brazil’s biofuel sector and agriculture; Brazil—second only to the US in ethanol output—is expanding renewable-fuel capacity and increasingly using sugarcane and corn feedstocks. Wider ethanol adoption in shipping could significantly reduce global shipping greenhouse-gas emissions.