by Taras Berezowsky on February 7, 2012
Style: Industry News
Category: Commodities, Macroeconomics, Non-ferrous Metals, Sourcing Strategies
Keywords: aluminum prices, China, Commodities, commodity volatility, copper prices, EU, Stainless Steel, US manufacturing
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 [...]
If you haven’t yet had a chance to peruse the Featured Speakers list for MetalMiner and Spend Matters’ upcoming event, you should take this Friday morning (or afternoon, or evening, depending on your time zone) to do so. We just added a few key speakers this week, all of whom have extensive experience in commodities. [...]
Even though Eastman Kodak has declared bankruptcy, there is just enough industrial demand being mustered in the solar panel, battery and conductor sectors, not to mention investment in ETFs and physical metal, to give the silver price its best start in a new year since 1983. According to a recent article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, silver [...]
