Articles Tagged "zinc miners"

Zinc Declines on Dampened Chinese Growth Forecast

Zinc declined in London Thursday as expectations of slower growth in China decreased the demand outlook for base metals. China’s attempts to cool inflation are expected to result in an 8.7 percent growth rate in 2011, down from 10 percent in 2010.

Zinc Rallies on Economic Optimism

Strong evidence that the world’s economies will weather the current storm resulted in zinc having one of its most positive weeks, in terms of price gains.

Survival of the fittest for lead and zinc miners

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 [...]

Zinc and lead companies underwater

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 [...]