Indonesia's abrupt easing of a three-year ban on nickel ore exports will not flood the global market but instead is aimed at balancing the country's smelters and creating job opportunities at mines, top mining officials said on Saturday......
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Thursday, 12 January 2017
The Tiny Gulf Country With a $335 Billion Global Empire
Qatar is regaining its appetite for deals. In the past two months alone, the world’s richest country per capita invested in Turkey’s biggest poultry producer, Russian oil giant Rosneft PJSC, and U.K. gas company National Grid Plc....
Base metals shine on good Chinese data and looming supply crunches
Base metal prices rose strongly overnight on the back of China's producer price index (PPI) hitting a five-year high.....
Saturday, 7 January 2017
Barclays Flags ‘Black Swan Threats’ to Commodities This Year
Watch out for the unexpected in commodities in 2017. Barclays Plc said raw materials markets from energy to metals face the high likelihood of disruptions, giving a laundry list of possible threats including a default by Venezuela, riots in Chile and a trade war with China...
Monday, 2 January 2017
Hedge funds bet the commodity revival will keep rolling in 2017
Commodities had a resurgence in 2016, with the first annual advance since 2010. The gains will continue next year for many of the markets, at least that's what hedge funds are signalling....
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