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Original Post By Stuart Burns Stock and currency markets have been a little perkier the last week or so as expectations rise of some form of Chinese stimulus to boost demand - and, hence, global growth. That optimism, though, may be somewhat misplaced. China has limited scope for d...
By Bluford Putnam Could the USMCA accord among the US, Canada and Mexico, and a potential US-China trade deal get approval from the Democrats-led House of Representatives? Editor’s Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha Read more ....
Original Post By Sohrab Darabshaw The railways sector is one of the high-growth areas in India so far as infrastructure is concerned. Much of it still runs on a setup that its former colonial ruler, the British Empire, left behind, and then some. In a bid for modernization, which i...
Original Post By Sohrab Darabshaw Last week, MetalMiner reported on the challenges India's steel companies face in the form of cheaper imports, and their desire for the Indian government to impose an import tax. The woes of India's aluminum producers, too, are similar. Primary ...
Original Post By Stuart Burns You can't please all of the people all of the time and the more people you are trying to please the harder it gets. When you are the largest and oldest metals exchange in the world and are trying to balance often competing priorities of a very div...
Original Post By Stuart Burns Two major dam disasters in three years are enough to put the frighteners on investors and get the media abuzz with talk of supply-side shortages. Yet, as small as Vale's (VALE) production loss is, the fact remains the market is relatively tight, and su...
The price of copper made some progress on the upside last week as the price rose above the $2.80 per pound level on the nearby COMEX futures contract. Copper started the year with a move to a new low at $2.5430 per pound on January 3 but has been moving higher since that bottom. The price of...
This week, the world waited while trade negotiators from China and the United States huddled in Beijing for high-level talks over the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries. In 2018, the US under President Donald Trump put tariffs on many Chinese exports to the US and China retaliated...
Original Post By Stuart Burns The aluminum price has been fluctuating between around $50/ton above and below a median of $1,900 for several months now. There is considerable uncertainty as to where it is going to go in 2019, yet some commentators, such as ING Bank , are predicting...
Original Post By Stuart Burns Some call them safeguards, some call them protectionist barriers, and some love them and some hate them. Few measures divide like import tariffs. We have seen it in the U.S. While Europe would claim its own measures are a reaction to the impact of impo...
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Lead is the fourth most used metal worldwide. Part of the base metal sector, this commodity is generally found in ores with other industrially important metals such as copper , zinc and silver . Because of its high resistance to corrosion, lead was once used in plumb...
Industrial metals such as metallurgical coal , aluminum and tin are key to much of the technology and infrastructure used in our daily lives. From aircraft frames to everyday appliances, industrial metals are everywhere, and investing in the industrial metals sector...
Lead is a soft, dense metal that is bluish-gray in color and has a bright luster when freshly cut. It is the fourth most used metal worldwide, part of the base metal sector, and is generally found in ores with other commodities like copper , zinc and silver . Because of its high resist...