Banco Suivi and Strictly Come Copper Trading
This article was written by John Wolff. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Sometimes one is surprised to find out interesting...
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geoffreysambrook
- Dec 20, 2017
2017 Passes
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...
Anthony Lipmann
- Dec 13, 2017
Diggers and Gold Diggers
This article was written Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. On 11th November 2012, a Russian banker,...
Trevor Tarring
- Dec 6, 2017
Prix Fixe
This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Looking at the way so many metal and...
Richard Horswill
- Nov 29, 2017
Tulip Mania? Buyer Beware?
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and openions expressed are strictly his own. This year, the increasing valuations...
geoffreysambrook
- Nov 22, 2017
A Sideways Look at Batteries….
I’m sure most readers will have seen one of those frequently reproduced photographs of hopeful putative miners wearily scaling the...
geoffreysambrook
- Nov 15, 2017
Paradise and Tax
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...
geoffreysambrook
- Nov 8, 2017
Returning Optimism – LME Dinner 2017
Another LME dinner goes by. If not showing the level of irrational (with hindsight) exuberance of the 2005-07 period, when the press even...
geoffreysambrook
- Nov 1, 2017
To Kill a President?
Since 1776, when the newly-minted United States of America decided to abandon the comfort blanket of the British Empire, four of its...
David Gaddes
- Oct 25, 2017
A Neophyte's LME Dinner
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...
Anthony Lipmann
- Oct 18, 2017
Court of Appeal Judgement Will Make Miners Listen
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. It may not have registered with the...
geoffreysambrook
- Oct 10, 2017
Letter from Hong Kong
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...
Anthony Lipmann
- Oct 4, 2017
The Capital of Metal
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. To mention in polite society that...
geoffreysambrook
- Sep 27, 2017
The LME Welcomes I/Bs
Years ago, when the horse and cart was the principal means of land transport and shipping metal concentrate from halfway around the world...
geoffreysambrook
- Sep 20, 2017
Ozymandias and Dzerzhinsky
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...
Trevor Tarring
- Sep 13, 2017
We've Been Here Before
This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Anthony Lipmann’s piece on the Trump Metals Act...
geoffreysambrook
- Sep 6, 2017
Lady Luck
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...
geoffreysambrook
- Aug 30, 2017
Why Do They Always Sell Options?
Why do they always sell options? Over the years, I’ve come across too many LME users who alight – often believing themselves to be...
Anthony Lipmann
- Aug 24, 2017
The Trump Metals Act
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...
geoffreysambrook
- Aug 16, 2017
AK-47s and Salvador Dali
Setting LME customer margin levels and collecting the cash these days is a pretty routine activity. Put the numbers into the parameters...
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