Column: Collapsing metal inventories clash with plunging prices
Shrinking exchange stocks should be a bullish price signal. Right now, however, macro is trumping micro as Western recession fears pummel the industrial metals complex.
China’s imports of key commodities set to make a patchy recovery on growing mobility
Among metals, copper imports are expected to post a modest…
Potanin a major obstacle to $60 billion Rusal, Nornickel merger
Potanin has said a tie-up could strengthen the companies' defences…
Russia’s Potanin weighs big metals merger as defence against sanctions
Nornickel-Rusal merger would create national champion and would also help…
Aluminum ‘on steroids’ may be copper’s next competitor
PNNL researchers are working to increase the conductivity of aluminum,…
