This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Central bank policies continue to be under the...

This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Imagine that you are skiing in the...

Sometimes, you realise that the knowledge that you thought you had about a particular subject barely touches the sides. Many of us metal...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. I was a metal merchant once – but I’m...

I’ve just finished reading a good book. It’s called Frostquake, by Juliet Nicolson, and it’s got nothing to do with metals, commodities...

US Global Investors (usfunds.com) have just produced their annual Periodic Table of Commodities Returns, which is always an interesting...

Gas prices continue their upward movement, creating waves in the UK political arena. (I’m actually lucky to burn oil – no-one has been...

It would be difficult to make the case for 2021 having been  a ‘good’ year. Maybe the grape harvest will prove to have been a good one,...

I’ve never ploughed through the thousand-odd quatrains that make up Nostradamus’ Les Prophéties, although I have skimmed through odd...

Beautiful late autumn weather in southern England currently – clear skies, crisp air and barely a breath of wind. Ah, wait though. No...

This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The term ‘shadow money’ suggests...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. It’s been a while since my last...

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best”, said Otto von Bismarck, the man who achieved the...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. After the cancellation last year caused...

A few months ago, when I wrote an article here about the likely closure of the LME Ring (obviously before its Lazarus-like revival….), I...

When I wrote last week that we needed to see some input from the grown-ups into the question of energy policy and security, I was working...

For the last eighteen months or so, we have all been bombarded by politicians, media, Twitter and Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all with a...

So, the theatre is back. After eighteen months of silence and gathering dust, the trading floor in Finsbury Square is again echoing to...

This is only tangentially related to metals today – wait to the end for the connection – but the mayhem being reported from Afghanistan...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Hot on the heels of the LME confirming...