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 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 22, 2012
Style: Market Analysis Category: Commodities, Exchange Traded Funds, Inventory Stock Levels, Investing Hedging, Precious Metals
Like gold, the silver price has risen since the start of this year after hitting a one-year trough in December, leading some to suggest that silver is set for a rebound on the coattails of gold. Source: Kitco But while there has always been a link between the two, silver’s more lackluster performance of late [...]
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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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by Taras Berezowsky on February 1, 2012
Style: Industry News Category: Commodities, Investing Hedging, Precious Metals, Supply & Demand
Keywords: commodity volatility, EU, Silver
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 [...]
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by Nate Burgos on January 27, 2012
Style: Category: Ferrous Metals, Non-ferrous Metals
Keywords: Silver, Stainless Steel, Steel
Anni Albers was a student at the The Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. In 1933 she taught, by invitation, at Black Mountain College in North Carolina until 1949. Albers focused on weaving design and production in the 1950s, and became known for her textile patterns, which she transformed into colorful tapestries. Anni Albers’ “Intersecting”, 1962, cotton [...]
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by Stuart Burns on January 10, 2012
Style: Category: Precious Metals
Keywords: Silver
The current silver market illustrates the value of spread betting as an indication of future price trends. Of course, this depends on the herd mentality holding sway — that a growing number of long bets means the price will rise and a growing number of short bets means it will fall. But by the very [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on January 3, 2012
Style: Category: Best of MetalMiner, Commodities, Metal Prices, Precious Metals
Keywords: Gold, Palladium, Platinum, Precious Metals, Silver
Source: blog.pennlive.com Not sure if Gollum has a portfolio for his precious (metals, that is), but if he did, he’d be reading MetalMiner. More to the point, if he institutionally invested in funds physically backed with gold, silver, platinum and palladium, or if his company had a significant silver or PGM buy, Gollum would definitely [...]
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