By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc investing News For the first quarter of 2009, the mantra of many lead and zinc miners is “survival”. After the price crash of 2008, many miners have gone underwater. This is forcing cutbacks, closures, acquisitions, and even some bankruptcies. There is no question that prices will rebound as commodity cycles are [...]
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News The zinc industry has been quick to respond to the slump in prices and a host of producers have announced cutbacks and closures. However, without a definitive shift in the current global economic current; supply cuts have yet to directly improve pricing. In Shanghai, spot [...]
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News Shanghai base metals fell by their daily limits on Friday, chasing steep falls on the London Metal Exchange (LME). The Exchange said it would make an announcement about which contracts would be suspended after the market closed. So far this year, the zinc price is down 52 [...]
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News On the London Metal Exchange (LME), zinc prices have nearly halved to $1,198 a tonne from the end of 2007; last Thursday, lead fell to a two-year low in London. After reductions in automobile production, both General Motors Corp and Ford Motor Co cut vehicle production [...]
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News The global economic outlook seems to worsen everyday. The US, China, and India are witnessing an economic slowdown. Data coming out of Japan shows that the economy there has entered into a recession in the third quarter as corporate spending and export demand slumped. The 15 [...]
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News Shanghai zinc opened at its upside limit of 4 per cent on Thursday, chasing the stock rally in the US and London. The rally was inspired by a US rate cut causing a short term bubble in the commodity prices. Later, prices came back to reflect [...]
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Friday, October 24, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News Lead and zinc were on par with this week’s bearish market sentiment. Growing evidence that the financial crisis was spreading throughout the globe hit the metals hard; most influential this week was news that pointed directly too a gloomy economic future for metals consuming giant China. [...]
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
By Heather Matthews – exclusive to Lead Investing News Base metals are continuing a downward spiral as the market reacts to the federal bailout plan and the general atmosphere of caution and unease. Base metal prices dropped on Wednesday, as September retail level reports (U.S.) were revealed, detailing reduced purchasing by consumers. After the report [...]
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
by Heather Matthews – exclusive to Zinc Investing News Zinc and lead metal spot prices showed improvement in today’s markets: this rally represents a positive development for base metals. Today, non-LME spot prices for lead and zinc were up, showing increased investor confidence in commodity investment. Zinc is currently trading at a bid/ask of .06494/0.6585, [...]
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Monday, September 8, 2008
By Heather Matthews – Exclusive to Zinc Investing News Current market climate Over the past nine months, zinc and lead spot prices have declined by 26 per cent as a result of a long-term market surplus that has negated demand for the base metals worldwide. The impact of this surplus is manifesting itself in myriad [...]
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