#France: What surges, Rice surges. Copper surges. Simon Constable, Occitanie,
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
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#France: What surges, Rice surges. Copper surges. Simon Constable, Occitanie,
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/cpi-report-today-inflation-stock-market-05-15-2024/card/copper-price-surge-to-fresh-record-high-as-speculators-pile-in-nsHMMsxChxygpkMzBURb
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| 0:10.0 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
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| 0:39.5 | is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. |
| 0:41.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:45.7 | To the south of France, to Simon Constable writing for the Wall Street Journal, Barrens and other distinguished publications. |
| 0:48.2 | Also my weatherman, we know which way the wind blows. |
| 0:52.4 | The question is is the rain. |
| 0:54.0 | So I'm going to report to you, there's calamitous flooding in Rio Grande des |
| 1:00.0 | Seoul, the southernmost state of Brazil, wiping out or damaging severely the rice |
| 1:04.8 | crop that Brazil eats and the world eats. There's calamitous, drenching, rain in |
| 1:10.6 | New South Wales so much so that they had to open up the big dam and let water out to save it |
| 1:16.6 | And that means the lowlands were flooded. It's been raining for days. They're talking about |
| 1:22.0 | El Nino giving way to another L'Nino right behind. |
| 1:26.5 | Last time we talked, the fields, the farmer fields were flooded because you were getting |
| 1:31.1 | so much rain, and there was the question of whether it would stop. |
| 1:35.3 | Has it stopped? What is the weather now? Good evening to you. |
| 1:38.6 | Good evening to you, John. It did stop for about two days and then it's back. |
| 1:43.6 | So we've got this deluge of water coming down and it really comes down |
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