Market sources said Glencore's head of iron ore, Hill, has been suspended amid a review of Radiant World.

The White House website on the 16th said the Trump administration plans to bar Canadian-origin goods from US federal civilian procurement, calling the action retaliation for Canada’s Buy Canadian policy and alleging Ottawa restricts US firms’ access to procurement markets at all levels of government. It said Canadian firms had been eligible to compete for more than $280 billion of US procurement. The move follows earlier US measures, including tariffs on certain Canadian alcohol, dairy and motor vehicle products.

FiberHome said it overcame key manufacturing hurdles for hundred-kilometer-class hollow-core fiber, completing a 110.6 km single-spool continuous draw of anti-resonant hollow-core fiber, a domestic record. The company said the product exhibits uniform, stable structure at the hundred-kilometer scale and can support multi-scenario engineering validation and delivery.