Non-ferrous Metals

Welcoming BravoSolution to Commodity EDGE: Sourcing (Real) Smarts + Technology

by Lisa Reisman on February 6, 2012

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MetalMiner is pleased to welcome Spend Matters Editor Jason Busch. We’re excited this week to welcome BravoSolution as a Bronze sponsor of Commodity EDGE. Lisa and I have worked with some of the BravoSolution team members going back over a decade and are thrilled they’ll be working with us to pull off a sourcing and [...]

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Will the LME Listing of Swaps Products Help Metals Hedgers? – Part Two

by Lisa Reisman on January 3, 2012

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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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LME Introduces Swaps Clearing for Non-Ferrous Metals – Part One

by Lisa Reisman on January 3, 2012

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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. For more than 125 years, the LME has insisted [...]

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Will Steel Industry Benefit From US HRC Options Contracts?

by Lisa Reisman on December 12, 2011

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MetalMiner welcomes guest columnist Brad Clark, a senior derivatives broker who leads the St. Louis office of FIS Ltd., the London-based global commodity interdealer broker. Mr. Clark brokers physical and derivative deals on steel, iron ore, scrap and freight with a focus on the domestic US market. Over the past six months, the US HRC [...]

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Copper Thieves Movin’ On Up From Scrap, Graduating to Live Wires

by Taras Berezowsky on December 9, 2011

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Source: SFGate Metal thieves are getting more and more ballsy with their sticky fingers. Turns out that stealing scrap copper is now apparently child’s play to some, and those commodity-grabbing crooks are now going for metal that’s still in use. Near San Francisco, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train tracks were the latest victim. [...]

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Bronzed Beauty Spotted In Alaska?

by Brianna Tonner on November 28, 2011

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While discovering anything bronze in Alaska may seem far-fetched, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have proven it is. The team, while excavating a nearly 1,000-year-old Inupiat Eskimo dwelling on Cape Espenberg on the Seward Peninsula, discovered the bronze buckle-like artifact. The Ëœbuckle,’ which measures about 2 inches by 1 inch, is less than [...]

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Revolutionary Steel and Copper-Buying Outlets Released Just In Time For Thanksgiving

by Taras Berezowsky on November 24, 2011

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“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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US Housing Market to Continue Slumping, Despite Increases in US Raw Materials Production

by Taras Berezowsky on November 22, 2011

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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently reported production figures for a select group of commodities, all of which are tied directly to the construction sector in the US. Most importantly for MetalMiner, it looks at US aluminum, iron ore and zinc production, but the significant rises in all three metal categories (and in the [...]

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