Does your company strategy call for a European manufacturing base but you worry you have missed the boat in terms of accessing lower-cost opportunities created when eastern European countries like Poland and the Czech Republic came into the E.U.? Need buying strategies for steel? Try two free months of MetalMiner’s Outlook Lower land and labour […]
Stuart Burns
Is the Global Trading System a Bust? (Part 1)
(Editor’s Note: This is the first of two posts addressing the global trading system. Check back tomorrow for Part 2.) — The Economist asked the question in a debate that has been running over the last few weeks, stimulated in part by President Trump’s unprecedented actions on tariffs and quotas aimed at perceived cheaters of the global trading […]
Oil Price Rises Pose a Threat to Global Growth Next Year
Rising oil prices were seen last year as a positive result of growing global growth and recovery, but a combination of factors are turning this benign view into a more sinister scenario. Need buying strategies for steel? Try two free months of MetalMiner’s Outlook On the supply side, the combined efforts of OPEC and Russia, […]
How ‘Green’ Will the Elysis JV’s Aluminum Really Be?
Full disclosure – I am an owner of an iPhone, iPad and Macbook — and I don’t mind admitting it, a longtime fan of Apple’s products — but even I cringe when the firm claims to have “worked with other metal companies to develop the proprietary technique, which allows for the generation of ‘green’ aluminium […]
India is Changing Faster Than Many of Us in the West Realize
India has over-promised and under-delivered on so many fronts over the decades. Need buying strategies for steel? Try two free months of MetalMiner’s Outlook Home of the world’s largest and, despite its young age and huge diversity, still thriving democracy, it has promised growth to rival China. Apart from brief bursts of activity, it has […]
Europe Has the Potential to Develop Domestic Lithium Sources
We normally associate Cornwall in England with scones and cream teas … or, if we are really metal nerds, we associate the sometimes sunny southeast country of the British Isles with mining (particularly with tin mining). Need buying strategies for steel? Try two free months of MetalMiner’s Outlook The area dominated with igneous morphology has […]
Where is the Next Economic Crisis Coming From?
Be assured there will be a next crisis — there always is, sooner or later. It is the nature of economic cycles that markets get out of balance and have to readjust. That sounds like rather a benign process, but of course we all know there is plenty of pain and many casualties when it […]
Steel, Aluminum Tariffs Postponed for Another 30 Days
Following intense lobbying by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel — plus, it must be said, the whole European steel industry and many consumers in the U.S. — U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a delay in the imposition of steel and aluminium tariffs on Canada, Mexico and, crucially, the European Union […]
Brexit, Part 2: Potential Alternatives and Life After the E.U.
Editor’s Note: Check out Part 1 here. — The option of European Economic Area (EEA) membership like Norway — which is not in the European Union (E.U.) but has open borders with the bloc and accepts some of its laws and regulations — seems strangely to have not been an option debated (at least publicly). […]
Brexit, Part 1: No … It Hasn’t Gone Away
Few national stories preoccupy the newsfeeds day in, day out — short of war or rebellion — quite like Brexit has in the U.K. Need buying strategies for steel? Try two free months of MetalMiner’s Outlook The irony is little progress has been made on the terms of Britain’s separation from the European Union since […]
