Stuart is a writer for MetalMiner who operate the largest metals-related media site in the US according to third party ranking sites. With a preemptive global perspective on the issues, trends, strategies, and trade policies that will impact how you source and/or trade metals and related metals services, MetalMiner provides unique insight, analysis, and tools for buyers, purchasing professionals, and everyone else for whom metals and their related markets matter.
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…
Natural gas has long been promoted as a less-polluting alternative to coal and less-costly alternative to nuclear power. Its green credentials are not whiter than…
The 14-strong Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), along with 10 oil states outside of the cartel, has reached an agreement to limit oil output…
After a recovery late last year, the oil market seems to have settled with a price around $55 a barrel… at least for now. That…
The Saudis counted them out. So did the Russians, even many domestic analysts said North American shale and tight oil and gas production would decline…
With cheap shale gas and falling power costs from renewables such as solar, nuclear power looks like yesterday’s technology but, for two reasons, it still…
The price of oil has sunk almost 50% since June with West Texas Intermediate crude slipping below $60 a barrel last week and Brent falling…
Nuclear power stirs considerable controversy but we have broadly been a supporter of the technology in part because of its low emissions and running cost,…
With the exception of geothermal energy most forms of renewable electricity generation have an intermittency to their delivery. Even hydro-electric power can fall short in…
In a recent post we looked at the state of the crude oil market, how demand has been weak as a result of refinery maintenance…
Much has been made of the potential for natural gas as a fuel for the trucking and rail industries.The dramatic fall in natural gas prices…
According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. crude oil inventories rose by 5.2 million barrels last week, the fifth largest build of…
We’ve seen oil prices rise recently due to concerns in the Middle East (Syria’s violence escalating, and Libya showing oil exports and production at the…
Don’t you just love stories of intrigue?Well, sure, when they are just stories – but if there is the possibility that they are a fair…
Not one to shy away from overstatement, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is not a writer we would normally quote extensively; well-renowned as the Telegraph newspaper is, for…