LIMA (Reuters) - Surging copper prices this year have brought startling growth in the number of trucks carrying copper from illegal mines in Peru, jamming roads, causing accidents and creating hazardous conditions especially after dark along the Andean country's key mining corridor highway, industry sources told Reuters. With copper demand soaring as the world rapidly moves toward electric vehicles and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Christy Goldsmith Romero will likely win enough votes to be confirmed as U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chair but Republicans are likely to slow walk the process. President Joe Biden last week nominated Goldsmith Romero, a Democratic commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to replace Martin Gruenberg who is stepping down after a probe found widespread...

EVENDALE, Ohio, June 19 (Reuters) - GE Aerospace is developing a hybrid electric engine with the hopes it will power next-generation narrow-body jets by the middle of the next decade. While the technology is still being tested, should GE be successful, it could produce hybrid-engine jets - like a Toyota Prius of the skies - that would go a long...

EVENDALE, Ohio, June 19 (Reuters) - A GE Aerospace executive said on Wednesday global supply chains will likely remain challenged even next year, despite a production slowdown at Boeing ( BA ). Russel Stokes, head of GE Aerospace's commercial engines and services, said while the company is aligned with Boeing's ( BA ) production rates for this year, it is...