Why Copper Is Rising While Oil Plummets

The Commodities Economy with Fexingo: Oil, Gold, Wheat, and Raw Material Markets · Sep 23, 2026 · 8m · transcript

With crude oil futures down nearly eight percent in five days and gold sliding, the commodity market is presenting a confusing divergence. Yet copper is quietly gaining ground, up two point six percent even as broader energy markets cool. This episode explores why investors are rotating into industrial metals despite weak oil demand signals. We look at how supply constraints in key mining regions are creating a structural shortage that oil’s volatility cannot overshadow. By September twenty third, two thousand twenty six, this split tells us more about manufacturing resilience than consumer…