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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.…
Via AG Metal Miner Doomsters have predicted the end of the LME before. Still, after 146 years and counting, the LME is still with…
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…
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…
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…
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 the metal markets, and one of their prime motivators is this year’s dismal prospects for China. A note in the…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
In a relatively rare example of disagreement — or, at least, such public disagreement — usually close allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates…
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…
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…
It won’t have been missed by anyone in the metals markets, but commodity prices have drifted off this past week. The reason is a resurgent…
Various reports hit the news feeds today quoting a deliberately headline-grabbing statement by Paul Sankey, managing director at Mizuho Securities, in which he is reported…
Not everyone agrees with the use of tariffs to achieve changes in trade relations. However, a recent article in The New York Times article reports the…
To be fair, not all shale gas drilling is slowing, but in the Permian Basin, which has seen the most incandescent growth in recent years, according…
Who would have thought wind’s transformation from subsidy-supported to self-financing power source would happen so quickly – not this publication, that’s for sure. Apart from…