Iron ore price slides on Chinese regulatory crackdown worries

Car buyers may be delaying any EV purchase at their peril.

The exchange also said it would raise the margin requirement for speculative trading of iron ore contracts for May and September deliveries to 15%.

A deep divide is opening up as investors focus their hopes on commodity exporters in the Middle East and Latin America.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. is scouting sites for a new $5 billion battery plant in North America.

Almost 80% of the Chinese economy has been affected in some way by the worst outbreak of covid-19 in two years.

Margins are way above historical norms, and such a drastic divergence of price and production cost cannot last indefinitely, says WoodMac.

The Tangshan government implemented a temporary lockdown on Tuesday to avoid further cases of covid-19 as infections surged.

Trading volumes in copper, aluminum and zinc on the Shanghai Futures Exchange all fell to the lowest level since Feb. 7.

A readjustment of Russian copper trade flows may not be nearly as smooth as Doctor Copper seems to be expecting, writes Andy Home.