Sourcing & Trading Intelligence for Global Metals Markets
The currency markets are in a state of an international crisis, according to Guido Mantega, Brazil’s finance minister in a recent Financial Times article. In fact, Brazil is just voicing what many fear in private is a rapid deterioration in the exchange rate markets. For many emerging and resource based economies like Brazil, Thailand, Australia, S. [...]
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Tomorrow, the BEA will release its revised second quarter GDP numbers. Consensus has that number at 1.6%, same as the prior release. But we here at MetalMiner pay close attention to the Consumer Metric’s Institute Daily Growth Index. The chart below depicts growth (or lack thereof) based upon certain aspects of consumer spending: Source: Consumer [...]
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Russia comes in for a certain amount of bad press, not least of which in these columns, due to its patchy adherence to the rule of law, at least as applied in the corporate world, and the growing centralization of power into the hands of self styled hard man Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. A member [...]
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It’s not just the oil and gas industry that is fighting shy of doing business in Iran. Although US pressure to enforce sanctions is pulling in high profile oil companies to withdraw from doing business with Tehran a host of metals firms and other manufacturers are also taking preemptive action. Many firms have simply announced [...]
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It is probably fair to say that Britain is rarely first at anything but last week the tiny isle became the largest producer of electricity from off shore wind farms in the world. In fact according to an article in the Financial Times, Britain now generates more power from off shore wind than the rest [...]
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