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Original Post By Stuart Burns Nickel prices have seen support in recent months more from supply-side concerns. Initially, support came from bringing forward of Indonesia's raw material export ban, More recently, support came from concerns the coronavirus pandemic would shut down mi...

By Ansh Chaudhary The ETF Deathwatch decreased in size in April. Twenty exchange-traded products ("ETPs") were added to the list, and 34 funds were removed. Twenty-five of those funds were removed due to increased health and nine were due to asset managers closing their funds. That so ma...

Original Post By Sohrab Darabshaw Provisional data for fiscal year 2020 from the Government of India show India became a net exporter of steel with an increase of 31.4% in March 2020. A CNBC report claimed India's steel consumption had touched the psychological barrier of 100 mil...

Original Post By Stuart Burns After the last crisis, China was instrumental in spurring global growth and helped pull the West and neighboring economies along with it. Through state stimulus, China achieved double-digit growth, far beyond what its underlying economy would have otherw...

The coronavirus outbreak and the effects of COVID-19 have gone deeper and wider than most people would have expected. That applies just as much to markets as anywhere. Whether it's a tech sector that is supporting our new work from home or re-rating as expensive EV/Sales multiples make less se...

The best performing commodity in the base metals sector in Q1 was LME lead, which fell 11.23%. LME copper, COMEX copper futures, aluminum, tin, nickel, and zinc all posted more significant percentage losses. Meanwhile, the price of iron ore moved almost 10% lower in Q1, and the Baltic Dry In...

By Wenyu Yao, Senior Commodity Strategist 1. China returns to normality? China's March manufacturing PMI reading surprised the market with a V turn, but perhaps it just telling us that things are not as dreadful as they were in February as Beijing took the draconian approach to comba...

Original post By Sohrab Darabshaw Like in other countries, the outbreak of COVID- 19 and the subsequent lockdown threatens to disrupt India's steel production. What's more, there are reports coming in now that Indian steel companies will face even more competition from rivals in Ch...

Original Post By Stuart Burns Just as we were about to go to press with an article on the surprising resilience of seaborne iron ore and coking coal prices in Asia, the market in Asia closed yesterday with heavy falls - they beat us to it. Supply disruptions and what looks like an ...

Copper is a base metal that is a building block for infrastructure around the world. Copper is also a barometer of the overall health and wellbeing of the global economy. As the world has come down with a case of Coronavirus with no treatment or vaccine, the health of the globe has deteriorate...