Sourcing & Trading Intelligence for Global Metals Markets
by Lisa Reisman on September 28, 2010
Style: Commentary Category: Exports, Global Trade, Minor Metals, Product Developments, Supply & Demand
Keywords: China, Rare Earth Metals
It seems as though not a day goes by without a rare earth metal controversy involving China. The most recent dispute involves a Chinese fishing vessel collision with a Japanese coast guard ship, according to The Washington Post. But the dispute goes far beyond a collision between two boats it involves an island chain called [...]
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by Lisa Reisman on September 27, 2010
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Minor Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Product Developments
Keywords: Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals
Despite our broad coverage of the ISRI Commodity Roundtable conference held in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, (we covered various scrap markets as well as copper trends, stainless and nickel trends and aluminum trends) we just had to “save the best for last. The single most interesting and for that matter, most provocative comment [...]
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by Stuart Burns on September 27, 2010
Style: Category: Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand
Keywords: China, Copper, Non-ferrous Metals
A number of sources are predicting copper has further to run in Q4 this year and into next. First, Standard Bank in their daily notes to clients said that latest Chinese copper import figures were strong, with net refined copper imports climbing 19.6% month over month in August, which followed a 6.1% month over month [...]
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by Lisa Reisman on September 27, 2010
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Metal Prices, Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand
Keywords: Aluminum, China, Non-ferrous Metals
We are pleased to announce the addition of HARBOR Aluminum as our preferred aluminum research partner. We selected HARBOR to be a preferred MetalMiner Research partner for a few reasons, but primarily because the choice of HARBOR reflected our own personal impressions of their unique research, pragmatic approach, forecast accuracy, industry conferences and most important [...]
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by Lisa Reisman on September 24, 2010
Style: Commentary Category: Uncategorized
Keywords:
Welcome to our first Ëœreal’ foray into video programming! We have a lot to learn but we hope you enjoy this 4:01 (that’s minutes not hours) overview of a few trends from our new MetalMiner Steel Market Pulse survey (we start the survey on Mondays and then close it on Thursdays). The goal is to [...]
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by Nate Burgos on September 24, 2010
Style: Commentary Category: Metal Fabricated Parts, Product Developments
Keywords:
“Flash motorocycle (2008) Shinya Kimura makes custom motorcycles. In 2006, he set up his studio-shop Chabott Engineering (“with the fancy double t’s) in the desert town of Azusa, California. His reputation grew for motorbikes and their no-frills composition and aesthetic which became known as “Zero-style. From an interview with SouthSiders, a blog about motorcycle culture: [...]
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by Lisa Reisman on September 23, 2010
Style: Category: Commodities, Environment, Metal Prices, Non-ferrous Metals, Sourcing Strategies, Supply & Demand
Keywords: Aluminum, China, Non-ferrous Metals
To continue our discussion on aluminum markets, scrap trends and prices, we wanted to recap some of the discussion we heard last week at the ISRI Commodity Round Table Conference here in Chicago last week. The panelists, Gary Curtis of Wise Metals Group, Toshi Fukui, TAI Metals Division, Toyota Tsusho America, Mo Ahmadzadeh, Southhold Capital [...]
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by Stuart Burns on September 23, 2010
Style: Category: Commodities, Exports, Imports, Metal Prices, Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand
Keywords: Aluminum, China, Non-ferrous Metals
A recent video report on the Reuters Insider service covered some interesting points regarding the aluminum market. Aluminum has moved from being in profound over-supply to balance from last year to this, so the debate that developed between David Thurtell a Citi Bank analyst and our favorite Reuters Base Metal columnist Andy Home proved rather [...]
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