You are viewing the World Edition
Choose the news you want to read
View the site in World Edition, UK News Edition
Canadian News Edition or Australian News Edition
It was a few weeks ago now, but it will take far longer for the memory to fade – the memory of Ivanhoe Mines executive chairman Robert Friedland barking like a dog while expressing his views about gold, onstage at the World
Full story...There can be few better illustrations of the divergent nature of this market than last week’s metals price movements. Copper closed at a new all time high of US$8,980 a tonne, while lead and zinc fell to three year lows of
Full story...Halfway through the year is a good time to take stock of where markets are. Particularly as we are now in the seventh year of this bull market. Those observers thinking that this is it, that there is no more upside may yet be
Full story...Talk to some analysts and they point to the halving in price of nickel, lead, and zinc as evidence that the bull market has had its time in the sun. Other equally knowledgeable observers cite the near doubling of iron ore prices,
Full story...Just when things looked to be getting boring for base metals a gas explosion in Western Australia has suddenly made the market a lot tighter. Apache Corp’s Varanus Island facility supplies about one third of the state’s
Full story...For more commodities stories visit the archive.
