April 27, 2022 China will be poster child for developing countries MMT Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, posits that rather than obsessing about how large a country’s debt has grown, and the ongoing annual […]
April 27, 2022 Iron man Elon Musk places his Tesla battery bets Nearly half of the vehicles Tesla produced in Q1 were equipped with LFP batteries - a cheaper rival to the nickel-and-cobalt-based cells that dominate in the West.
April 27, 2022 Column: Global miners rank ESG as their top concern. Really? Not one of the biggest listed Western mining companies has an executive with the title of chief ESG officer, writes Clyde Russell.
April 27, 2022 Column: Automakers go back to the future to secure battery metals Henry Ford was right all along, it turns out.
April 27, 2022 Russia says it may buy diamonds from sanctions-hit Alrosa Alrosa, , the world’s top diamond miner by output, is responsible for 90% of Russia’s diamond production and 28% of global supply.
April 26, 2022 Column: China-exposed commodities take a covid-control tumble The ongoing lockdowns, with Shanghai now entering its fourth week, have eroded confidence in China's covid-19 policy, writes Clyde Russell.
April 25, 2022 Iron ore price plunges nearly 9% on demand woes The most-traded iron ore on China's Dalian Commodity Exchange for September delivery tumbled almost 11%.
April 25, 2022 Column: Bears tip-toe back into copper market as demand fears grow Copper has spent the last few weeks hanging in suspended animation, writes Andy Home.
April 22, 2022 Gold price en route to weekly loss with Fed eyeing big rate hikes Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said a half-point interest rate increase “will be on the table.”
April 22, 2022 ‘Mr. Lithium’ warns there’s not enough battery metal to go around Batteries, and more precisely battery metals, are poised to replace chips as the new bottleneck for the auto industry, writes Gabrielle Coppola.
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