This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions are strictly his own. If there is one thing I learnt after 41 years...

On the tombstone of a disturbing number of previously successful careers could be inscribed the epitaph “Why did you want to sell...

This article was written by David Gaddes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Most of us who have worked in the metals...

Martin Hayes and I have both written on here before about the likelihood (or not) of the LME Ring ever returning to our lives. It’s now...

In PG Wodehouse’s ‘Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves’, Bertie Wooster is once again compelled (for reasons far too convoluted to go into here) to...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Evolution is a natural process, and a...

This article was written by Bill Prast. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Once upon a time, long ago and in a land...

Truly, this time we seem to have fallen down the rabbit hole to a world where nothing is how it seems, where Humpy Dumpty tells us “when...

This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. I have often wondered what money is...

This article was written by Trevor Tarring. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Lord Copper’s recent – as usual –...

This article was written by Suzannah Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly her own. Trading with Japan – A Family Affair...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The year is 1991 and I am in Tallinn...

This article was written by Steven Spencer. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. It’s been three months now and by...

We’ve written a couple of times here before about the closure and (potential) re-opening of the LME Ring, and speculated to an extent on...

“When all the stars are falling down, Into the sea and on the ground, And angry voices carry on the wind. A beam of light will fill your...

So statue-destroying has reached a provincial British city, as Edward Colston was toppled from his plinth and dumped into the river by a...

It gives me absolutely no pleasure whatsoever to write this, but I believe we are approaching the time when we may have to begin to think...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Lord Copper threw down the challenge....

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Last week, US aluminium giant Alcoa Corp...

In the strange world created by the coronavirus swirling around the world, some  other items of news have been getting less attention...