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MetalMiner’s Latest Commodities Sourcing Outlook

by Taras Berezowsky on February 7, 2012

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Here’s Episode 4 of MetalMiner’s Sourcing Outlook, brought to you by Zycus. In the first episode of 2012, MetalMiner takes a look at the center of the commodity market storm — the EU debt crisis and impending (or already begun?) recession. In MetalWatch, we check in on stainless steel, as the ThyssenKrupp-Outokumpu merger looms in [...]

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Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions and Western Oil Sanctions – A Train Crash in Slow Motion

by Stuart Burns on January 31, 2012

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There has been a lot in the press recently about the West applying sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, in an attempt to persuade that country to halt its atomic bomb-making activities. No one believes Iran’s assertions that its uranium enrichment program is purely for commercial power generation purposes, and yet opinions are divided on how [...]

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