This will all make sense if you read the first story’s headline below. Source: subversom.blogspot.com A hip-hop album it’s not, but our piece on how a Buddhist Monk sees the 2012 landscape leads off our Best Of slate on a number of macroeconomic commodity issues. 1. Buddhist Monk’s Prophecy on the Year of the Dragon “The [...]
Here we are at Day 2 of Commodity EDGE, and while we conceded the excellent minute-to-minute coverage of the conference to our sister site, Spend Matters, we couldn’t let the first session go uncovered on MetalMiner. (For instantaneous nuggets of conference gold, get on Twitter right now: @metalminer and @spendmatters) That’s because Bill Strauss, chief [...]
After initial outrage, bluster and bravado, Iran appears to have come to terms with impending Western sanctions on the country’s oil and financial sector, to the point of saying they don’t think it will have any meaningful impact at all. Iran deems Western politicians as lacking the courage to stick with the ban in the [...]
As we prepare to kick off our conference next Monday, we thought we should point at some happenings in commodity markets this week and what they might say about the broader outlook for prices heading into Q2 2012. China’s Rare Earths Are Not So Rare That was the headline of a Wall Street Journal opinion [...]
Lisa Reisman spoke with Omer Abdullah, co-founder and managing director of The Smart Cube, Inc., about how companies are — and should be — thinking about black swan events and their impact on commodity sourcing. *Hear Omer speak in person next Monday, March 19 — he will be leading a roundtable session titled “Forecasting, Statistical [...]
by Taras Berezowsky on March 13, 2012
Style: Market Analysis
Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Macroeconomics, Non-ferrous Metals, Sourcing Strategies
Keywords: Aluminum, China, Copper, European Union, Gold, India, Iron Ore, Natural Gas, Oil, Silver, Stainless Steel, Steel
Brought to you by Zycus, MetalMiner’s Sourcing Outlook focuses on cotton, natural gas, steel, copper and aluminum this month. In our One-On-One interview, Lisa Reisman speaks with Omer Abdullah, co-founder and managing director of The Smart Cube, Inc., about how commodity forecasting can help your business.
Conflicting data is coming out of China, which doesn’t help metals consumers elsewhere trying to read the tea leaves on what impact the world’s top consumer and producer of steel and non-ferrous metals is likely to have on prices this year. A Reuters article this week reports on how base metals demand is falling due [...]
Continued from Part One. Think About the Environment The “China 2030″ report bestows considerable attention upon the environment, following years of environmental disasters and the slow, rather piecemeal pace of reform and application. Local officials are frequently blamed as being as much part of the problem as they are the cure in monitoring local polluters; [...]
