Sourcing & Trading Intelligence for Global Metals Markets
by Lisa Reisman on April 12, 2012
Style: Industry News Category: Metal Prices, MetalMiner IndX, Non-ferrous Metals, Precious Metals
Keywords: Copper, Gold, India, Japan, LME, Palladium, Platinum, Precious Metals, Silver
US Copper Producer Grade 110 Price Collapses The price of US copper producer grade 110 saw the biggest price shift of the day, dropping 5.2 percent on April 11, 2012. US copper producer grade 102 prices saw a one percent decline. Following two days of dropping rates, the cash price of Japanese primary copper flattened [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on April 10, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Non-ferrous Metals, Precious Metals
In Part One, we covered the creation of China’s new rare earths association, designed to facilitate consolidation and more environmental oversight of rare earths miners and processors. Now let’s turn to more life-and-death matters — gold and futures trading. The Golden Ticket — to the Gallows Apparently, a 30-year-old Chinese woman, named Wang Caiping, has [...]
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by Stuart Burns on March 22, 2012
Style: Market Analysis Category: Commodities, Precious Metals
Keywords: Gold, Platinum, Precious Metals
Worries about the inflationary impact of monetary easing may well appear misplaced. However, no doubt they remain widespread – so widespread in fact that they have underpinned the rise of the gold price over the last couple of years. Recent assessments by the Fed that the near term economic outlook appears to have improved combined [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on March 16, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Macroeconomics, Minor Metals, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: China, Coal, Copper, Gold, Rare Earth Metals
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 [...]
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by Stuart Burns on March 15, 2012
Style: Industry News Category: Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand
As Chile is hit by falling ore grades and Peru is hit by delays due to populist agitation, the copper market is pinning a lot on the start of copper production later this year at Rio and Ivanhoe’s Oyu Tolgoi mine in southern Mongolia’s Gobi desert. First identified over ten years ago, Rio and their subsidiary, [...]
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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.
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by Stuart Burns on February 16, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Precious Metals, Public Policy
As a method of providing loans it has worked well, but its very popularity and pace of growth is a cause of concern for the authorities in India. We talk, of course, of gold loans. In a country where the hoarding of physical gold is almost a way of life, it is not surprising that [...]
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by Stuart Burns on February 6, 2012
Style: Market Analysis Category: Commodities, Global Trade, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: China, Commodities, EU, Gold, metals, Silver, Steel, Zinc
A report in the FT notes the Chinese manufacturing sector has made a surprisingly strong start to the year, as the purchasing managers index (PMI), an important gauge of factory growth, rose to 50.5 in January from 50.3 a month earlier. The result helped underpin recent strength in metals prices, Standard Bank wrote in a [...]
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