Stuart Burns

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• How The EU’s Carbon Tax Scheme Is Reshaping Global Steel Trade

  Published 29 October 2023 | viewed 2,462 times

  Via Metal Miner This month saw the launch of the EU’s CBAM policy, a much-needed abbreviation for Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Officials designed the trade…

• Shipping Woes Ease As Rates Drop To Pre-Pandemic Levels

  Published 30 August 2023 | viewed 1,256 times

  Via Metal Miner Buyers who depend on imports for semi-finished materials or finished components will undoubtedly cheer the recent fall in freight rates. Indeed, global…

• How Shipping Lines Sustain Rates Despite Surging Capacity

  Published 31 July 2023 | viewed 1,430 times

  Via Metal Miner In recent years, market analysts, considerably widened the parameters they track to assess growth in countries, regions, and globally as far as container…

• Nickel Buyers On Edge As Another LME Scandal Unfolds

  Published 31 March 2023 | viewed 7,672 times

  Via AG Metal Miner The London Metal Exchange and its notorious nickel contract are back in the limelight again. This time, the news has to do…

• U.S. Weighs 200% Tariff On Russian Aluminum

  Published 15 February 2023 | viewed 5,538 times

  Via Ag Metal Miner   A potential aluminum shortage could be rearing its ugly head once again. This will prove especially true if the U.S.…

• China’s Reopening Has Been A Boon For Metal Markets

  Published 01 February 2023 | viewed 3,848 times

  Via AG Metal Miner   The Chinese stock market reacted to Beijing’s about-face on COVID infections with a surge in prices, particularly in tech stocks.…

• The World’s Largest Metals Market May Never Return To Its Former Glory

  Published 24 January 2023 | viewed 9,091 times

  Via AG Metal Miner   Doomsters have predicted the end of the LME before. Still, after 146 years and counting, the LME is still with…

• Volatile Metal Prices To Persist As China Grapples With Covid Spike

  Published 29 November 2022 | viewed 1,080 times

  Via AG Metal Miner   There have been a number of dynamics driving metals prices this year. They’ve ranged from the strength of the USD…

• Battery Makers Can’t Escape Rising Nickel Costs

  Published 25 October 2022 | viewed 3,307 times

  Via AG Metal Miner    Battery original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have enjoyed a clear trend for much of the last decade. In fact, they’ve largely…

• Are OPEC And The IEA Right About What’s Next For Oil?

  Published 19 July 2022 | viewed 28,460 times

  Both OPEC and the International Energy Agency are predicting next year’s market to be one of the tightest in recent history. According to a Financial…

• What Is Fueling The Surge In Gasoline Prices?

  Published 08 June 2022 | viewed 34,119 times

  Back in the 1970s, Arab oil embargoes caused short-term pain for the West due to rising crude prices. However, it also spurred a drive for…

• The Bears Are Back In Metals Markets

  Published 23 May 2022 | viewed 6,030 times

  The bears are back in the metal markets, and one of their prime motivators is this year’s dismal prospects for China. A note in the…

• Tin Supply Is Running Dangerously Low

  Published 16 May 2022 | viewed 10,169 times

  Despite a strong rebound in output, the tin market is still dangerously short on supply. How will this affect the tin price forecast? Experts are…

• U.S. Recession Fears May Be Overblown

  Published 28 April 2022 | viewed 5,224 times

  Recession fears have so far been focused largely on the US. However, a recent note from Capital Economics to their clients predicts that we’re much…

• The Aerospace Industry Is Grappling With A Titanium Supply Shortage

  Published 21 April 2022 | viewed 7,348 times

  Like other industry insiders, the team here at MetalMiner has paid very close attention to the way international sanctions on Russia are affecting metals markets.…

• What’s Really Driving The Crazy Rally In Commodity Prices?

  Published 25 October 2021 | viewed 10,561 times

  Bulls are pointing to the surging metals prices as evidence a supercycle is alive and well. However, no one but a snake oil salesman would…

• Europe Desperately Needs To Diversify Its Energy Supply

  Published 10 October 2021 | viewed 2,998 times

  We have written twice over the last week concerning the energy crunch, first in China and then in India. Thermal coal prices have risen to…

• OPEC Agreement At Risk As UAE Prepares To Open The Taps

  Published 08 July 2021 | viewed 11,696 times

  In a relatively rare example of disagreement — or, at least, such public disagreement — usually close allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates…

• The Market For Zinc Is Collapsing

  Published 30 June 2021 | viewed 3,297 times

  The zinc price has defied expectations that oversupply would put so much downward pressure on prices that last month’s $3,100/ton high would be the peak…

• New Russian Tariffs Could Send Key Metal Prices Even Higher

  Published 29 June 2021 | viewed 2,743 times

  The metals markets received a jolt late last week with the news that Russia is considering applying export tariffs to steel, aluminum, copper, nickel, and…