Gold, and Bitcoins
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. For years gold has been an indicator...
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geoffreysambrook
Mar 8, 2017
New Ring, Same Issues
I visited the LME in its new home in Finsbury Square for the first time last week. A splendid new building (cracks and problems of last...
geoffreysambrook
Mar 1, 2017
Gordon Bennett
I’ve just finished reading a book called Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race across the Atlantic, by Sam Jefferson. No, don’t stop...
geoffreysambrook
Feb 22, 2017
Calling Time
In a world where exchanges are commercial operations, required to generate profits for their shareholders, they have to focus their...
geoffreysambrook
Feb 15, 2017
What Price the Reference Price?
It’s long been taken as a truism that the jewel in the LME’s crown is the global reference price it publishes each day for each metal....
Anthony Lipmann
Feb 8, 2017
Old metal men never die, they simply melt away
As younger, fresher, shinier metal men and women begin to take on the metal mantle, they have every right to do things their way. I hope...
geoffreysambrook
Feb 1, 2017
Can Bending Spoons Help You Find Minerals?
School cutlery took a beating in the late nineteen sixties as children up and down the country tried to prove they could emulate Uri...
Anthony Lipmann
Jan 25, 2017
Kings and Paupers of Scrap
“The scrap trade is an honourable profession” my old late metal friend, Reg Simmonds, would say – even as he was taking my eyes out on a...
geoffreysambrook
Jan 18, 2017
Who'd be a Resource Economy?
Who’d choose to be a resource economy? First off, it sounds really good. The geological formation of the earth has left you a store of...
geoffreysambrook
Jan 11, 2017
The Trump Effect – and Black Swans
What’s going to affect the commodity markets in 2017? Well, the glib answer is world events and then their impact upon the supply and...
geoffreysambrook
Jan 4, 2017
2016 – 1848 Revisited?
Society in the middle part of the nineteenth century was changing rapidly. Industrialisation, with its attendant movement of population...
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