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 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 3, 2012
Style: Category: Commodities
Keywords: Commodities, commodity volatility, Oil, Steel, US manufacturing
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. [...]
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by Taras Berezowsky on February 1, 2012
Style: Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Global Trade, Minor Metals
Keywords: China, Commodities, exports, Nucor, Rare Earth Metals, Steel, US manufacturing, WTO
We all know a thing or two about news that’s not really news (or, to put it more accurately, news that’s overblown) — and this phenomenon seems to happen in the realm of rare earth metals more than anywhere else. Reporting on rare earth metals is such a hot commodity in and of itself that [...]
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by Nate 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 Taras Berezowsky on January 25, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Ferrous Metals, Public Policy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zP18scC7kQ[/youtube] MetalMiner Editor Lisa Reisman interviews NSBA’s Executive Director Roger Ferch. Just the other day, the Dylan Ratigan Show (on which MetalMiner has appeared before) ran a segment revising how the structural revamp of the San Francisco Bay Bridge was outsourced to China. Why would the state of California jump to contracting with China to [...]
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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 Lisa Reisman on January 25, 2012
Style: Commentary Category: Commodities, Ferrous Metals, Green
TC Malhotra contributes to MetalMiner from New Delhi. Tata Steel has secured a major contract from Siemens Wind Power to supply 25,000 metric tons of high quality profiled steel plate for wind towers. The order – the largest to date for the steel company’s dedicated wind tower hub in Scunthorpe, England – is worth an [...]
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