Pop-ups and Boutiques
I’ve spent the last week or so sailing, with limited access to emails and the internet, so I haven’t really been in close touch with what...
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geoffreysambrook
Aug 3, 2016
Physical Metal Exchange?
A long time ago, back at the beginning of this century, there was a business called Emetra, which aimed to be a kind of one stop...
Fred Piechoczek
Jul 27, 2016
The Dark Net, Crypto-Currencies and the Blockchain
This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Enter the Dark Net, the world of...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 20, 2016
Want a Black Swan for your Lake?
I’ve got friends who love to talk about the expectation of black swan events. They like to believe they are telling us something we need...
Fred Piechoczek
Jul 13, 2016
The UK, Europe and Democracy
This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The Evolution of the Modern World This personal...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 6, 2016
Alice in Blunderland
Sub title Alice shook her head as she woke up. She glanced towards the window, then at the clock on her bedside table. Then she looked...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 29, 2016
Referendum – where it all went wrong
The global economy looks a bit flaky this morning and the UK political scene looks a complete mess. Why? Because the UK has just voted in...
Anthony Lipmann
Jun 29, 2016
Does This Mean Curtains for the UK's Eurovision Entry?
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. If ever there was an analogy for the...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 22, 2016
Campaigning Shame – and the Bank of England
With the UK’s EU referendum now upon us, I had toyed with the idea of addressing the issue in this column, and indeed I had discussed...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 15, 2016
Why would you want a new LME?
Last week, I wrote about the possibility that an alternative to the LME, while by no means any kind of certainty, was perhaps a little...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 8, 2016
21st Century Metal Exchange
If you were designing from scratch a mechanism for trading metal forwards or futures to give producers, consumers and traders the...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 1, 2016
Electronic Trader Discounts – the Beginning of Attrition?
German military strategists from Bismarck onwards were very clear that the most serious error they could make when plotting their moves...
geoffreysambrook
May 25, 2016
Hiding from History and Burning Books
The metal markets are stuck in a bit of a rut at the moment, marking time. Generally, the supply side is pretty easy, with high levels of...
geoffreysambrook
May 18, 2016
EU Referendum – will somebody please treat us as adults?
It’s the most important electoral decision we will have to make in a generation, we are told. It will chart the course of the nation (and...
geoffreysambrook
May 11, 2016
Electric Vehicles, Lithium and Investment
Electric vehicles promise to shake up the metals industry, conferring the status of essential on some hitherto largely sidelined elements...
geoffreysambrook
May 4, 2016
Shareholder Spring?
How much do you need to pay someone to run a large company? Is one million enough? Five million? Ten? Fifty? Does it depend on the type...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 27, 2016
Artificial Intelligence and Markets
I guess quite a number of readers will have visited Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, the site of World War Two code-breaking; compared...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 20, 2016
Access and Information
These days, even people who in the past used to think they understood what was happening in the market are frequently baffled by...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 13, 2016
Salem 1692 – London 2016
In the late seventeenth century, around the village of Salem, in Massachusetts, there was an outbreak of group hysteria that led to...
geoffreysambrook
Apr 6, 2016
Steel: the Present, the Past…and the Future?
Steel is currently the metal of the moment – and not in a good way. The woes of Port Talbot, the UK’s last major-league crude steel...
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