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Bye bye 2024, hello 2025
Well, here we are at the end of 2024, peering through the murk to try and guess what might be in store for the world in 2025. But what...
Lord Copper
Dec 31, 2024
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The Sacred Pound
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. I call them the underclass. Guy...
Anthony Lipmann
Dec 24, 2024
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Not much to show for 60 years of independence
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Zambia’s 60th anniversary since...
Anthony Lipmann
Dec 16, 2024
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LME new floor trader
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. In the dying days of 2024, the reduced...
Martin Hayes
Dec 11, 2024
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It's the consumer, stupid
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Central banks are led by the nose in...
Richard Horswill
Nov 21, 2024
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Not just housewives
How the women in the Arizona copper strike in 1983 changed the way we mine copper today This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All...
Anthony Lipmann
Nov 12, 2024
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Who needs food, anyway?
I’ve written before - several times - about the way our current UK government is destroying any hopes of energy security, despite the...
Lord Copper
Nov 1, 2024
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Litigation and nickel
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. In the long-running stream of litigation...
Martin Hayes
Oct 18, 2024
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Dinner 2024 - change, change, change
This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The UK General Election earlier this...
Martin Hayes
Oct 3, 2024
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Dinner, again
So, here we come again to another LME Dinner. It’s the cue for people who have been in the business for a long time - me included, I have...
Lord Copper
Oct 1, 2024
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Un-inversion
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The global economy has been...
Richard Horswill
Sep 24, 2024
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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
I am again going to inflict my literary tastes on you. I have just read Danny Finkelstein’s family history - Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad....
Lord Copper
Sep 16, 2024
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From embryo to veteran
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Â In South Korea environmental...
Anthony Lipmann
Sep 3, 2024
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Welcome to the madhouse
After a mere seven weeks, I could find plenty of reasons to criticise the new UK government, but I prefer not to write political stuff...
geoffreysambrook
Aug 29, 2024
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The Scrapyard Awaits us all
This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. My mother, who died on Sunday...
Anthony Lipmann
Jul 26, 2024
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Buyer's remorse, anyone?
Buyer’s remorse already making itself felt, amongst all those whose votes enabled the accession of our new government? Let’s look at...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 12, 2024
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Growth, growth, growth
This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The general election has produced...
Richard Horswill
Jul 10, 2024
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Listen for the drum
I don’t really want to write political stuff here, but we have an election imminent, so a least a passing reference is almost...
geoffreysambrook
Jul 3, 2024
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Alice in Electionland
Election time in Wonderland! Alice leapt out of bed when the alarm rang, excited and eager to start studying the policies of the various...
geoffreysambrook
Jun 19, 2024
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Send in the clowns?
Once again, it’s time to look at energy supply and security. A US investment bank/wealth manager - Stifel - has recently published a...
geoffreysambrook
May 22, 2024
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