I’m sorry to come back again to the same topic as last week, but the increasingly hysterical reaction to energy prices forces me to....

One morning this week, I heard a “consumer affairs champion” (not my choice of nomenclature) ranting hysterically – and I do mean...

So far, this year has not been a stellar one for the metals business and the LME. Prices have declined, and the LME has has shown its...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. From July 18th, the LME will introduce...

There are probably as many interpretations of the story in the Book of Revelation of the four horsemen of the apocalypse as there are...

So, as widely predicted, the nickel lawsuits are beginning to drop through the LME’s letterbox. Fun times ahead for the lawyers, I...

This article was written by Richard Horswill; all views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. As of 1st June 2022 the Federal...

Well, here we go: BP announces a hefty profit and the siren call is raised – “let there be a windfall tax on energy company profits!”...

Trading Exchanges don’t always get things right. We’ve written on here for the past four or five weeks a succession of articles which...

This article was written by Martin Hates. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. After the events of early-March, when...

This article was written by Steven Spencer. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. The LME today (4th April) issued a...

The tribulations of the LME nickel market continue to make the general press, so I thought it apposite to make a couple more observations...

It used to be so simple, so obvious. The London Metal Exchange was a chalk circle, drawn on the floor, around which a bunch of...

This article was written by Martin Hayes. All views and opinions are strictly his own. Those of us with long memories will recall when...

Back in August 2015, I wrote an article on here about the sentencing of Tom Hayes, an interest rate trader, in connection with the...

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...