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Copper price nears $13,000 on tariffs woes, supply strain Mine outages, tariff risks and tight supply push copper toward a milestone despite weakening Chinese demand.

We conduct extensive research on the U.S. labor market outcomes for recent college graduates. This research examines unemployment rates, underemployment, wage trends, and differences in job prospects across college majors, providing a data-driven view of how new graduates experience the workforce across economic cycles.

Our most recent findings showed that the underemployment rate for recent college graduates rose to 41.8 percent in the third quarter of 2025—its highest level since 2020. Learn more:
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Ever notice how some people swear the best music stopped the year they got their driver’s license? Science might actually agree with them.

A new study from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland found that men form their deepest musical attachments around age 16, while women peak closer to 19. That small gap says a lot about how gender shapes the way we experience music during adolescence.

Researchers asked nearly 2,000 people across 84 countries to name a song that felt personally meaningful. They compared the participants’ ages to when those songs were released using Spotify data, then ran the numbers every way they could. No matter how they sliced it, the pattern stayed the same. Teenage boys hit their musical sweet spot a few years before teenage girls.