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Commodity markets lost more than $16 billion in value during last week’s selloff, Reuters reported in a special report. Equity and commodity markets plunged as…
A series of articles by Reuters columnists and Chesapeake Energy’s August 2011 Investor Presentation (once the “Ra-Ra” is filtered out) serve to underline the rapid…
As US politicians put their debt crisis to bed, for the time being at least, all eyes switch to Europe. The European debt crisis is,…
A review of the gold price written by Robin Bew, chief economist at HSBC Bank, proposes that the gold price is in danger of entering…
The latest set of data and various reports confirm that metals demand is strong and growing in China. Even as Beijing escalated efforts to close…
One can describe the corn market as distorted since subsidies began under the Carter administration back in the 1980’s. Arguably, however this decade has seen…
The rise and fall of the silver price this year had much more to do with speculative exuberance than any fundamental change in supply or…
The whole issue of climate change and government policy in response to global warming remains an issue of immense importance to the metals industry. As…
Natural gas holds a lot of promise for China. As a result, China’s development of the fuel has the potential to profoundly impact global prices.…
What goes around comes around they say, along with other equally useless phrases like “all good things come to an end.” China has had a…
One could be forgiven for thinking that ever since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, the global nuclear industry would be dead in the…
Anyone of a betting nature may take a look at the forward swaps market on natural gas and think the small premium asked for forward-dated…
Metals prices may have come off in the wake of fears over continued tightening in China, Greek debt default and wider worries over stalling global…
A series of recent FT articles covering a range of topics such as global growth, commodity market volatility and aluminum demand appear to offer conflicting…
A fascinating special report by Reuters this week tracks the fortunes of oil and silver over the last few days and reads more like a…
Zinc has dropped significantly along with copper these last few weeks as stocks have continued to rise along with a massive surge in mine production…
The iron ore price has been taken as a bellwether for the commodities super-cycle in recent years. Steel production in China has been at the…
There was a time (and I can remember it) when the streets of Shanghai at rush hour were a manic surge of bicycles either waiting…
China may be the world’s largest producer of coal for power generation, but as the world’s largest consumer, the proportion that it imports is still…
Rising copper prices in the last few days may lead buyers to believe normal business has resumed for the copper bull run. The copper price…