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And BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, said its assets topped $14 trillion for the first time.

The Dow led gains today in the major indexes, closing up 0.6%.

Coming up, an Arizona mine that is a proving ground for the U.S.

copper industry lands a major new customer, basketball's expanding game-rigging scandal, and what was behind yesterday's Verizon outage.

That's after the break.

An Arizona copper mine, the first new source of U.S.

copper in more than a decade, has landed its first major customer.

It's Amazon, which needs the medal for its AI data centers.

Ryan Dezember, who covers commodities for the journal, is here to tell us more about the mine and what the Amazon deal means for the U.S.

copper industry.

So, Ryan, we've seen copper prices hit record after record recently.

What is driving this demand?

And then, of course, President Trump has imposed a 50 percent import tax on copper products.

How is that affecting things?

That brings us directly to this mine in Arizona.

So you write that it's using some new mining techniques.

What are those and why is it important to this industry?

And maybe expand the U.S.