Some call them safeguards, some call them protectionist barriers, and some love them and some hate them. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial of MetalMiner’s Outlook Few measures divide like import tariffs. We have seen it in the U.S. While Europe would claim its own measures are a reaction to the […]
Stuart Burns
Venezuela at a Crossroads
We wouldn’t be the first to say Venezuela is at a crossroads, and we may not be the last, but rarely in the last decade has this once-thriving economy had the chance to seize a brighter future from the wretched state it finds itself in today. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial […]
Gold is Making a Comeback
Gold has been the metal to hold these last few months. While the base metals index has been at best trading sideways — and in many instances, gradually weakening — gold has been making a comeback. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial of MetalMiner’s Outlook Even before Fed announcements in January […]
Winners and Losers in the Wake of the U.S., Canada’s Dueling Metals Tariffs
A recent article by CBC in Canada highlights the mess that has resulted from the imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs between the U.S. and Canada. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial of MetalMiner’s Outlook It is fair to say the same mess is almost certainly prevailing on the U.S. side […]
China Reports Slowing Growth, but by How Much?
The New York Times reports this week that China’s economy continues to gently slow its pace of growth. For the last three months of 2018, growth came in at 6.4% compared with a year earlier, the paper said, its slowest pace since a decade ago. For the full year, the Chinese economy grew at 6.6% […]
A Shaky Start to the New Year
It is not just the stock market that is having a wobble — firms are asking if now is the right time to be investing in new capacity or raising production. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial of MetalMiner’s Outlook 2018 was a stellar year for the U.S. jobs market, but […]
Brexit’s Comedy of Errors Continues as Parliament Rejects May’s Deal
For those on the other side of the pond, the debacle that is Brexit must feel rather like a distant joke, particularly the defeat this week of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan by not just Parliament, but a large number of her own party. Need buying strategies for steel in 2019? MetalMiner’s Annual Outlook […]
Europe Embraces Tariff Barriers in Response to Rising Imports
They call it the law of unintended consequences and, broadly speaking, it was intended by the American sociologist Robert K. Merton to mean unintended consequences are outcomes that are not the ones foreseen and intended by a purposeful action — particularly actions of a government. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial […]
China Makes Big Play in EV Market with Great Wall’s Ora R1
ThomasNet ran a piece this week on China’s latest blockbuster in the electric vehicle (EV) market: the Ora R1 hatchback from domestic automaker Great Wall. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial of MetalMiner’s Outlook I say “blockbuster” not because it’s a rival to Tesla or a similar high-end brand — quite the […]
Does Brexit Represent an Existential Risk to the European Union – or Even the Global Economy?
“No” is the simple answer, according to the Financial Times in an article this week. Need buying strategies for steel? Request your two-month free trial of MetalMiner’s Outlook So, does it matter? Not from a purely economic point of view, no. Sure, it has huge implications for the Brits, and for any company buying from […]
