The Markets Desk — Week 37 · Thu 10 Sept 2026
Materials / 7 companies

The anode pipeline

Graphite is the anode in the battery storage sitting behind a datacenter, and almost all of it is refined in one place.

graphite

What happened

Nothing logged in the last 120 days. Export-control announcements and project decisions arrive from the sweep and the register’s own feeds; silence here means none have landed, not that none happened.

The price

Graphite has no free price series — USGS publishes once a year and everything monthly is paywalled. What can be kept instead is the pipeline: which projects were announced, and which are actually producing.

This week

No week to compare yet — movers need two stored Fridays, and the record does not hold two for these names.

Exposed companies

Constituents and their week
CompanyTickerBeatCloseWeek
GrafTech InternationalEAFcritical-materials
Nouveau Monde GraphiteNMGcritical-materials
NovonixNVXcritical-materials
POSCO HoldingsPKXcritical-materials
Syrah ResourcesSYR.AXcritical-materials
Talga GroupTLG.AXcritical-materials
Westwater ResourcesWWRcritical-materials

7 on the layer · no Friday closes stored yet

A hand list, not a query: a company carries a beat and no material, so which names are actually exposed to graphite is a judgement. Every published miner and refiner is on companies.

What is being collected

series

A dated number. Collected on a cadence; the chart is the record.

series sources on this layer
SourceWhat it is forAs ofState
usgs-mcsannual supply context on every material pagenot yet collected
imf-portwatch-chokepointschokepoint-stress line (Suez, Panama, Hormuz) behind materials and equipment lead timesnot yet collected

event-log

Dated decisions where the event itself is the record.

event-log sources on this layer
SourceWhat it is forAs ofState
mofcom-export-controlsthe chokepoint calendar — announcement dates ARE the productnot yet collected
eu-crma-projectsthe anode pipeline — announced vs producingnot yet collected
asx-announcementsquarterly activity reports and announcements per Australian miner — the announced-vs-producing pipeline one stage deepernot yet collected
blm-nepa-registermine permitting clocklead

Dated ahead

Dated catalysts ahead
DateCompanyPeriodFirmness
2026-10-26GrafTech International EAF2026-Q3expected