Commodities

Commodities: November 16, 2008

As Governments Attempt To Stimulate Demand By Investing In The Basic Fabric Of Modern Society, Miners Wisely Cut Capacity

A gathering of the great and the good from the largest 20 economies on earth this weekend in Washington will doubtless have kept many journalists occupied. But will it have solved anything or produced any remedies for the global

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Minews Story, Commodities: November 12, 2008

Richard Elman At Commodities Trading House Noble Group Reckons He Can See The Bottom Of This Market

Richard Elman is “seeing the bottom”. That’s either a very clever trick from a man with an office in a high-rise overlooking the murky waters of Hong Kong harbour, or good news for investors in mining shares. The latter is the

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Commodities: November 09, 2008

It Was Fun While It Lasted: Metal Prices Drop To Pre-Boom Levels, But Some Important Lessons Have Been Learned

Base metal prices fell again last week, and are now at a level that old time mining analysts can relate to. Prices are back in the range where they traded for the bulk of the 1990s, with the exception of copper at US$3,880 a

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Commodities: November 03, 2008

There May Have Been A Minor Bounce In Metals Prices Last Week, But Make No Mistake, Production Cuts Are Coming

Base metal prices might have staged a rally last week, but the mining industry is not about to wait for any government to ride to its rescue. Production cuts are being implemented from Brazil to Zambia as miners react to prices

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Commodities: October 28, 2008

The Latest Word From China, And As You’d Might Expect, It’s Not All Good. But Is It Reliable?

How much information out of China can be relied upon is open to debate, but for what it’s worth, Chinese viewpoints from a conference held in Beijing last week weren’t overly positive, with bearish viewpoints coming out on the

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