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Turning Ploughshares into Swords (Why War is Good for the Metals Business)
At a meeting of some of the writers and sponsors of this site towards the end of last year, there was a debate about the value or...
Anthony Lipmann
Mar 30, 2016
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March of the Robots
The automation of the financial markets continues apace. Robo-advice is the coming thing in money management, apparently. I may have come...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 23, 2016
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A Sustainable Rally?
The beginning of 2016 was horrendous across financial markets. Pretty much everything (excluding precious metals) took an almighty hit,...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 16, 2016
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2016 – Back to a Different Future
It used to be relatively straightforward to predict aluminium prices. You could look at demand in the west, then estimate supply and come...
Chris Evans
Mar 9, 2016
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How Rhodium lost its Mojo (and how, like Austin Powers, it might get it back…)
It is not immediately obvious how to establish a link between Austin Powers and Rhodium – but I’ll try. It centres, essentially, on...
Anthony Lipmann
Mar 2, 2016
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In the Long Run, we are all Dead
On the heels of Anglo’s announcements of intended asset sales come BHP Billiton’s second half 2015 numbers. They show a loss for the...
geoffreysambrook
Feb 24, 2016
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Hard Landings
‘Hard landings’ are uncomfortable. In the days when I flew small aeroplanes myself, I made enough of them, but the one that really sticks...
geoffreysambrook
Feb 17, 2016
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Set 'em up, Joe
When I was a young clerk and junior dealer on the LME, I would sometimes hear the senior men say to one another as they left the morning...
John Wolff
Feb 10, 2016
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An Orwellian Economic Nightmare
Most of us greeted the New Year with a degree of optimism, I think – maybe rightly, maybe wrongly. But today Richard Horswill draws us a...
Richard Horswill
Feb 3, 2016
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A China Diary
Jinzhou I have been in China twenty-four hours and no one has mentioned the crisis. Perhaps it is just too cold to talk, as the...
Anthony Lipmann
Jan 27, 2016
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Benevolent No More
The London Metal Exchange Benevolent Fund is being wound up, after over a hundred years. I suppose I’m probably fairly typical in that...
geoffreysambrook
Jan 20, 2016
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Regulation – or Compliance – at Fault? (And David Bowie)
Financial market regulators come in for quite a lot of criticism, very often well deserved, but on occasion they are not actually the...
geoffreysambrook
Jan 13, 2016
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China Disappointment
“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” Those two lines (from ‘The Hollow Men’) are probably the most quoted...
geoffreysambrook
Jan 6, 2016
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