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By Elliott Gue |
April 3, 2012
An improvement in the outlook for global growth has helped drive a modest uptick in global steel prices and a similarly modest rally in the prices of global steel producing stocks.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
March 23, 2012
The US needs to figure out who its friends are and work with them to establish security of supply. The country’s politicians, and its citizens, also need to figure out that true wealth, a growing economy and a strong country are built by resource extraction and manufacturing.
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By Jon Nadler |
March 16, 2012
This morning’s New York trading action started off on the downside once again for the metals. Gold practically erased yesterday’s gains and dipped to near the $1,640 per ounce while silver also retreated from last night’s closing values and dropped to near $32.20 the ounce.
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By Zig Lambo |
October 28, 2011
The Byron Capital Markets analyst explains how graphite and vanadium play critical roles in rapidly growing battery markets, as well as in the steel industry. Companies he discusses look poised for major supplier status.
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By Marc Davis |
October 18, 2011
As hot as the blast furnaces required to produce steel, China's ever-expanding economy continues to fuel a seemingly insatiable demand for one of the building blocks of the modern world: iron ore.
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By Chris Munford |
September 27, 2011
The continual news blitz around high-profile commodities - gold, oil and copper - can make one forget that there are other commodities out there that are in shorter supply than any of these
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By Chris Munford |
September 26, 2011
Colombia, famed as an oil and thermal coal producer, is now fast becoming a focal point for a much rarer commodity - metallurgical coal - an essential ingredient for most of the world's steelmakers
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By George Mack |
September 20, 2011
House Mountain Partners founder Chris Berry is making a bet on the unfamiliar element vanadium to be required in large quantities for mass storage batteries and has identified several vanadium names that could power investor portfolios.
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By Brian Sylvester |
September 7, 2011
The senior mining analyst with Dundee Capital Markets has some rather bullish forecasts for iron ore and copper prices. But given the worldwide economic malaise and a slowdown for China's economic powerhouse, what's his rationale?
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By Brian Sylvester |
August 24, 2011
Soaring growth in countries like China and India has led to high global manganese demand. The bulk manganese specialist with CRU International in London, discusses how manganese prices are closely tied to the economy and supply and demand.
