Check out our live-blog coverage of our colleague’s clandestine adventures in London on this big day: The diary of the Royal Wedding Head of Procurement
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April 2011
SpendMatters Hired by Royals
by Lisa Reisman on April 29, 2011
Style: Commentary Category: Uncategorized
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Car Wars: Aluminum v. Steel, Episode One
by Lisa Reisman on April 29, 2011
Style: Market Analysis Category: Environment, Ferrous Metals, Manufacturing, Non-ferrous Metals, Product Developments, Public Policy
Keywords: Aluminum, Ferrous Metals, Green, Non-ferrous Metals, Steel
This is the first part in a multi-part series. Keep an eye out for the next installment. The opening “crawl of Return of the Jedi references the Galactic Empire secretly building a new “armored space station even more powerful than the first dreaded death star, thought to “spell certain doom for the small band of [...]
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Agloves Keep You Warm and Mobile: From the Slopes to the Cold Chicago Streets
by Sheena Moore on April 29, 2011
Style: Commentary Category: Minor Metals, Product Developments
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MetalMiner welcomes Spend Matters’ Sheena Moore as a guest contributor this week. So you’re thrilled with your smartphone: Angry Birds, Bus Tracker, and all kinds of other information at your fingertips even, as we’re seeing in the sourcing world, for Supply Chain Management (the following article cites the top three uses as scanning barcodes, sending [...]
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Cliffs Natural Resources and Others Support New US-Canada Bridge
by Taras Berezowsky on April 28, 2011
Style: Category: Ferrous Metals, Global Trade, Manufacturing, Public Policy
Keywords: Ferrous Metals, Steel
A recent MetalMiner post about the long-fought battle over who should build another bridge between the US (Detroit, MI) and Canada (Windsor, Ont.) or whether the bridge should be built at all has caught some folks’ attention. This alone signals the contentiousness of the issues at hand, which seem to mainly stem from (what else?) [...]
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Sorry, Chairman Bernanke: Press Conferences Don’t Grow the US Economy
by Taras Berezowsky on April 28, 2011
Style: Category: Commodities, Public Policy
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke went where no Fed chairman has gone before in front of a podium to take questions (and hopefully answer them) from a bunch of journalists. Fed Chairman Bernanke’s first-ever press conference, following an FOMC meeting with a number of policymakers, was designed to let the people know what the Fed’s been [...]
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Zinc: So Strong, But For How Long?
by Stuart Burns on April 27, 2011
Style: Market Analysis Category: Commodities, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: China, LME, Non-ferrous Metals, Zinc
Reading the runes for the zinc market has become quite a challenging exercise. The price has been one of the success stories (if you are a producer) of the global recovery, rising steadily along with copper, with which it has been showing a strong correlation. Like copper, part of the story is the probability of [...]
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USW and Honeywell’s Battlefield: A Uranium Conversion Plant
by Taras Berezowsky on April 27, 2011
Style: Industry News Category: Minor Metals
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The battle between corporations/governments and unions, from state pensions to auto companies’ legacy costs, has been distilled for the metals world with the ongoing negotiations or lack thereof between Honeywell, the energy and technology giant, and the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Honeywell and the USE have clashed over Honeywell’s uranium processing plant in Metropolis, Ill., [...]
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Toyota’s Troubles (And Nissan’s, And Honda’s) To Cut Into Platinum’s Rise?
by Taras Berezowsky on April 27, 2011
Style: Market Analysis Category: Automotive, Commodities, Exchange Traded Funds, Metal Prices, Non-ferrous Metals, Precious Metals, Supply & Demand
Keywords: Non-ferrous Metals, Platinum, Precious Metals
Earlier this week we mentioned that platinum is again on the rise, and prospects for the metal are looking good. However, in the wake of the supply chain nightmare the Japan tsunami caused the effects of which are still shaking markets should we be concerned that platinum demand will drastically decrease? After all, platinum’s place [...]
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