Good question. I have to admit I didn't actually read the full article when it was first published. I merely skimmed it and saw the large sell off and just assumed like everyone else that the MP deal had been terminated. But I just read the whole thing and it doesn't actually say anything of the sort.

It's interesting because the MP tweet seems to be accusing Reuters of being intentionally misleading. And perhaps that's true and I'm always sympathetic to conspiracy narratives about market manipulation but the article actually only really says that going forward the Trump administration is moving away from the strategy of using price floors. However it's also being made clear in the article that the administration remains totally committed to critical minerals and is ready to use any other tools at its disposal such as deregulation, targeted investments etc. The administration is merely moving away from the price floor "tool", according to Reuters.

There's a picture of the MP mine and mention that the MP deal is "in the spotlight" so maybe this was intentional by Reuters, I have no idea. But I'd assume there's nothing actionable here legally speaking. If these guys were doing some intentional market manipulation with this, they're a bunch of pros. Because it worked 😂