This article was written by John Wolff. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Sometimes one is surprised to find out interesting...

Time to look back on the year just coming to an end. On a personal level, it’s been a horrible year, but that’s not really a subject for...

This article was written Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. On 11th November 2012, a Russian banker,...

This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Looking at the way so many metal and...

This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and openions expressed are strictly his own. This year, the increasing valuations...

I’m sure most readers will have seen one of those frequently reproduced photographs of hopeful putative miners wearily scaling the...

Dear Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell, (Or should I call you Jez and John?) Frankly, I don’t agree with the vast majority of your policies, but...

Another LME dinner goes by. If not showing the level of irrational (with hindsight) exuberance of the 2005-07 period, when the press even...

Since 1776, when the newly-minted United States of America decided to abandon the comfort blanket of the British Empire, four of its...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The LME Dinner week is fast approaching and as I...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. It may not have registered with the...

Letter from Hong Kong I’ve been in Hong Kong for the last week or so, for the first time in a few years. Talking to people here, changes...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. To mention in polite society that...

Years ago, when the horse and cart was the principal means of land transport and shipping metal concentrate from halfway around the world...

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… near them, on the sand, Half...

This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Anthony Lipmann’s piece on the Trump Metals Act...

Luck and Battles For a long time, I held the view that luck is an under-valued element in considering success in financial markets. It’s...

Why do they always sell options? Over the years, I’ve come across too many LME users who alight – often believing themselves to be...

Yogi (It looks like its déjà vu all over again) Berra would have been proud. It seems like the revs with which metal history repeats...

Setting LME customer margin levels and collecting the cash these days is a pretty routine activity. Put the numbers into the parameters...