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Louisiana Light • 2 days | 74.87 | +3.05 | +4.25% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 78.10 | +2.42 | +3.20% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 75.01 | +0.41 | +0.55% | ||
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Mars US • 13 hours | 71.20 | -0.46 | -0.64% | ||
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Gasoline • 1 hour | 2.712 | +0.000 | +0.01% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 78.10 | +2.42 | +3.20% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 78.52 | +2.19 | +2.87% | ||
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Opec Basket • 2 days | 75.01 | +0.41 | +0.55% |
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Peace Sour • 4 hours | 67.45 | +0.39 | +0.58% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 4 hours | 68.75 | +0.39 | +0.57% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 4 hours | 77.70 | +0.39 | +0.50% | ||
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Central Alberta • 4 hours | 67.05 | +0.39 | +0.59% |
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Eagle Ford • 2 days | 69.29 | +3.55 | +5.40% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 2 days | 69.25 | +3.75 | +5.73% | ||
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Kansas Common • 28 days | 64.52 | +0.64 | +1.00% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 75.42 | -1.20 | -1.57% |
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Metals / Commodities
China Continues to Reduce Rare Earth Production as Prices Fall
Chicken or egg, which came first?The same question could be asked of the rare earth metals market.Rare earth metal prices have been falling steadily for the…
Japan Signs Rare Earth Deal with India
Japan has sealed its new “friendship” in the world of rare earths by formally signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India for imports of rare earth (REE) minerals annually.
Chinese Rare Earth Mining Monopoly Threatens US Defense Technology
Technology that drives the Pentagon’s weapons program, the US auto industry and renewable energy ambitions is threatened by a lack of heavy rare earths for which China enjoys the global…
Recycling Magnets to Extract the Rare Earth Metals
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is working to more effectively remove the neodymium, a rare earth element, from the mix of other materials in a magnet. The…
Are Rare Earth Metal Prices About To Rise?
Rare earth metal prices have fallen sharply since mid-2011, some declining by as much as 80% as expectations of rising supplies coincided with declining demand. More recently, prices have shown…
Mining the Infinite Resources of Space
Mining for precious metals and resources is about to go where no man has gone before—space. No man except for Bruce Willis, that is. In the 1998 blockbuster film Armageddon,…
Burma - Truly One of the Last Untapped Energy Frontiers, Opening for Business
Investors, looking for sure bets, can stop reading right now.For those seeking overlooked energy "final frontiers," well, there’s now – Burma.According to the secretary of Burma's…
Can China's Monopolisation of the REE Market be Reduced?
What does this percentage refer to? 97% That's the percentage of global production of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) controlled by the People's Republic of China. But even with a virtual…
Commodity Prices Will Remain High and Volatile for the next 20 Years: McKinsey
Just looking at a new article from global consultants McKinsey about the state of world commodities and the outlook looks bleak, to say the least. (Original here) “Our research…
Is Platinum’s Next Move Down?
Platinum is looking increasingly vulnerable. Net speculative length has been dropping for some weeks now and, as this graph from a Standard Bank report to investors shows, the trend has…
Peak Metal: U.S. Preparing for the Coming Shortages in Metals and Minerals
Many if not most metals, rare earth minerals and other elements used to make everything from photovoltaic panels and cellphone displays to the permanent magnets in cutting edge new wind…
Afghanistan - Newly Discovered Mineralogical Treasure House (Again)
As the U.S.-led Afghan campaign lurches into its second decade, the country’s vast untapped mineralogical resources are again emerging in the Western media, seemingly underpinning the benefits of International Security…
Malaysian Environmentalists Lead Opposition to Rare Earth Processing Facility
With the price of rare earth elements due to China’s de facto monopoly now running at more than $100,000 per tons of unprocessed ore, it would seem that countries would…
Growing Controversy over Molycorp’s Plans to Mine Rare Earth Elements
On Tuesday, the New York Times ran a story stating Molycorp, currently America’s only operating rare earth materials producer, will soon announce a heavy rare earth metal deposit right near…
Report From the Molycorp Mountain Pass Mine
When I heard that Molycorp (MCP) had just cratered by $22 from $53 to $31 in two days, I did what I usually do when a mining company I follow…
China’s Rare Earths Monopoly - Peril or Opportunity?
The prosperity of China’s “authoritarian capitalism” is increasingly rewriting the ground-rules worldwide on the capitalist principles that have dominated the West’s economy for nearly two centuries. Nowhere is this shadow…
China, Japan Minuet Around the Issue of Rare Earths
It’s official – China’s de facto monopoly on current rare earths production is a threat to the global economy. As least, that was the gist of hearings on 21 September…
European Union to Stockpile Rare Earth Elements
In the light of the Chinese hegemony for its own energy projects, it is feared that restrictions in the global supply of rare earth elements (REEs)will ensue. Until last year,…
China Using Rare Earths as a Weapon
China is currently responsible for more than 90 percent of the worlds rare-earth production, and some analysts allege that China is using its de facto monopoly to lure a high…
China - Record High Rare Earths Prices Promoting Illegal Mining
Six months ago, China's exports of rare earth elements (RREs) breached the dizzying price of $100,000 per-ton barrier, a nearly 900 percent increase in prices from a year before, representing…
