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Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are sometimes punted as an alternative to direct investments on metals exchanges, like the LME or CME. But in reality, it…
When Chinese steel group Tsingshan announced its Indonesian nickel operations would supply matte — a form of the metal used only for stainless steel production…
The Automotive Monthly Metals Index (MMI) fell by 1.4% for August’s MMI reading. US auto sales Ford Motor Co. reported its August retail sales increased…
While much of the world still depends on fossil fuels, demand for battery metals is surging. Battery metal demand on the rise South African platinum…
While the world looks on with growing concern at the political play unfolding in Afghanistan with the takeover of the Taliban, another sidebar to this…
So far, it has been largely Samsung cell phones or laptops batteries that have caught the media’s attention when devices have caught fire, particularly in…
You wouldn’t believe the oil price had been quietly falling since early July when you went to fill up your tank this summer. Gasoline demand…
The global shipping market has been a depressing topic to report on this year. We have posted two or three updates on the state of…
Demand for cobalt is rising globally because of its use in electric vehicle batteries. As such, China Molybdenum (CMOC) is planning to invest as U.S.…
LME trading volumes, along with prices, traded sideways for the first three weeks of the month and picked up the pace toward the end of…
There is a sizeable arbitrage window between COMEX and the LME copper price, prices that would normally move in relative harmony. The underlying cause, Reuters…
Tin prices have soared to a record high on the LME, closing last week at $34,177 per metric ton. The closing price marked an increase…
The CME’s Comex and London Metal Exchange (LME) are squaring up for the industrial revolution that is electrification, according to recent posts by Bloomberg and…
While the rest of the world is trying to come to grips with the European Union’s proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) – which calls…
Reducing carbon emissions seems to be on the top of everybody’s agenda at the moment. A recent post in The New York Times reports on…
Energy Fuels Inc. and Neo Performance Materials Inc. announced that they have executed the first shipment of mixed rare earth carbonate from a mill in…
In one of its first tests as a free trading global economy after Brexit, Britain achieved a middling mark this past week. Trade minister Liz…
According to a news report by Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua, the wind farm located in South Kazakhstan near the city of Zhanatas is an…
China’s steel and aluminum market is undergoing a quiet revolution. It’s not a revolution of investment or innovation. Peak aluminum, steel in China? According to…
In many emerging markets, economic growth has come at the stark price of appalling levels of pollution. But the Financial Times suggested that in China,…