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Green Book Rate Still 28 OctThe 3.0% discount rate is published, but no project changes status until revised guidance and business cases cite it. October 28 is the first document that shows.Foreman
Ballot Rule Still HeldTalwani's September 4 order stands while the administration's September 3 emergency application sits at the Supreme Court.Tinkerton
Stopped and Unnamed
Kametstal Restart UnsetTwo blast furnaces offline after the strike. Metinvest has published no restart date, so the loss is furnace-days rather than tonnes.Graves
Kharg Vessel UnnamedNo ship identified and no official account from Tehran or Washington. Kharg's export role makes verified damage consequential; nothing verifies it yet.Sprockett
Tape Notes
Korea Clears $709.4bn in 248 DaysCumulative 2026 exports passed the prior full-year record by September 5, with chips near two-fifths of the total.Foreman
US Gasoline Above Four DollarsRecord holiday prices into Labor Day weekend, with the refining system near its operating ceiling.Graves
Saxony-Anhalt Votes SundayAfD polling 40-43%. No far-right party has won a German state election in 77 years of postwar democracy.Sprockett
The Tape · 5 Sep · furnaces down, rate cut to 3.0%, ballot rule held
KAMEThaltfurnaces2 offline
GBOOK3.0%ratefrom 3.5%
USPSheldinjunction4 Sep
2317NT$921.8bnAugust+51.98%
KHARGunnamedno vesselunverified
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