(Bloomberg) -- China’s Commerce Ministry is on its biggest public hiring spree this decade, bolstering the unit overseeing rare-earth curbs even as it pauses sweeping measures in a trade truce with the US. The Bureau of Industrial Security and Export and ...

China is set to tighten controls on silver exports from Thursday, extending its oversight over a metal that has traditionally been treated as an ordinary commodity but is increasingly viewed as strategically important to global industry and defense supply chains.

Silver prices surge as China restricts exports and global inventories drop 70%. Physical supply gaps widen amid rising industrial demand.