Sourcing & Trading Intelligence for Global Metals Markets
by Taras Berezowsky on February 8, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities
Keywords: Aluminum, Oil, Rare Earth Metals, Steel
Often in the metals sourcing world — and indeed, in business circles at large — we ask the question, “What’s the value proposition?” As far as our upcoming conference goes, the answer’s right here in this video: Just as surely as you can’t get something for nothing (there’s no such thing as a free lunch, [...]
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by Stuart Burns on January 25, 2012
Style: Market Analysis Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Macroeconomics, Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand
The European debt crisis has rather overshadowed the usual preoccupation of metals analysts, commentators and investors – China – of late, so a couple of broadly related articles in Thomson Reuters makes interesting reading. It is clear metal prices will not escape the effects of the Euro debt crisis, which seems to lurch between relief [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on January 24, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: Aluminum
It should be quite apparent by now that half of MetalMiner’s co-founding team has decades of metals experience, but it’s always nice to see it validated in the mainstream metals press — in this case, commenting on the aluminum, zinc and nickel markets. Reuters sought out and quoted our own Stuart Burns, whose analysis and [...]
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by Lisa Reisman on January 3, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Investing Hedging, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: Aluminum, Copper, Non-ferrous Metals
MetalMiner welcomes back guest contributor Spencer O. Johnson, who has worked at INTL-FCStone as the primary risk management associate for steel since December 2009. Johnson co-authored this post with his partner on LME swaps, Dr. Mo Ahmadzadeh, who has over 30 years of LME trading experience. (This post is continued from Part One.) Average priced [...]
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by Lisa Reisman on December 21, 2011
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand
TC Malhotra contributes to MetalMiner from New Delhi. India’s government controlled National Aluminum Company Limited (NALCO) has decided to offer a discount of Rs 2,000 ($37.90) per metric ton across all products in the domestic market. Nalco, which is India’s third-largest producer of aluminum, raised prices by Rs 2,500 ($48) a metric ton earlier this [...]
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by Stuart Burns on December 20, 2011
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities
We have heard many times over the years about metal substitution as a result of rising metal prices — the most classic case is probably plastic water pipes in place of copper — but everyone is likely to have their own example. We have also heard, both in these columns and in the wider press, [...]
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by Stuart Burns on December 19, 2011
Style: Category: Commodities, Non-ferrous Metals
LME aluminum inventories have been skyrocketing in recent days, leading some to speculate that falling demand is creating a massive surplus. They may be right; even Andy Home, Reuters columnist and usually a good interpreter of the workings of the LME and related physical trading, wrote an article this week seeking to explore the possible [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on November 24, 2011
Style: Metal Appreciation Category: Ferrous Metals, Humor, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: Aluminum, China, Copper, Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals, Stainless Steel, Steel
“An Indian company has launched what it says is the world’s first cash machine to dispense diamonds as well as gold and silver coins¦They hope to cash in on the insatiable demand of Indians for jewels and precious metals. -BBC News, Oct. 27, 2011 *** Press Release – CHICAGO. 24 November 2011. – For Release [...]
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