MetalMiner’s Lisa Reisman and Dan McGroarty of Carmot Strategic Group appeared on MSNBC’s “The Dylan Ratigan Show,” discussing the problems and solutions related to the US trade deficit ahead of MetalMiner’s inaugural conference, International Trade Policy Breaking Point, on Tues., March 1. Check out the video below! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and [...]
Only one day left until MetalMiner and Spend Matters — along with sponsors Nucor and Zycus — present our inaugural conference! What: International Trade Policy Breaking Point When: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Time: 8:15 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. CST Register for the three-session live simulcast here! Further details on the topics, expert panelists and takeaways [...]
A few months ago, the recent fall in the copper price would have been met with expressions of delight by copper buyers keen to take advantage of “buying on the dips in what was widely expected to be a bull run on the copper price. When the price topped $10,000 per metric ton on the [...]
We are pleased to welcome a two-part series from guest contributor Spencer O. Johnson, who has worked at INTL-FCStone as the primary risk management associate for steel since December 2009. (Read Part One here.) The most common of all misconceptions about futures markets is that they increase, or even promote, market volatility. The first response [...]
(Read Part One here.) Before we left off with some pretty heavy questions in Part One, we mentioned that additive manufacturing — aka 3D printing — seems to be more widely used in Europe than in the US. If there was one American with his finger on the pulse of metal printing more than anyone [...]
Source: The Economist A series of fascinating articles in the Economist delves into the phenomenon of additive manufacturing processes, or, as it is widely becoming known, 3D printing technology. In a cover story, the magazine shows a “printed model of a Stradivarius violin, completely functional and essentially spit out by one of these 3D printers; [...]
In part of our continuing coverage of rare earth metals and related minor metals, MetalMiner is pleased to welcome Mr. Lawrence Heim, Director of The Elm Consulting Group International, LLC, an independent environmental, health, and safety consulting practice, as a guest contributor. According to their website, Elm was engaged by a leading US-based electronics manufacturing [...]
As a former metals trader (not ring, mind you, but import/export), I learned many tricks of the trade, so to speak. Unscrupulous traders once (perhaps still) easily circumvented US law in a variety of ways by creating false companies, transshipping products (knowing full well the products would end up in the hands of US adversaries) [...]
