CPM Group recently attended both the Minor Metals Trade Association (MMTA) and Metal Events Rare Earths (MERE) meetings in Singapore. Along with the valuable opportunity to reconnect with people sometimes…
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17-19 April 2024, Singapore In 2024, the MMTA International Minor Metals Conference moved away from Europe and North America of recent years and headed to Singapore. Taking the main…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: September/October 2023Moly market dynamics calm following historic volatility, eyes on China
The molybdenum market story in 2023 has been one of volatility and uncertain demand-supply outlook. With a less dramatic downside seen from September, S & P Global here unpicks the…
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Economics is a curious discipline, a social science under a veneer of scientific and mathematical rigour. A scientific sheep in wolf’s clothing, perhaps. A synthesis of art and science. That…
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CrucibleThe Crucible: May 2024Strong indium buying in China and cuts to Western production stir up market
In the last month the indium market has soared on a supply shortage caused by disruptions to production outside of Chi-na and increased buying in China bringing an end to…
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An extreme supply shortage since April has led to the sharpest price rally ever recorded in the antimony market since Fastmarkets started pricing the metal back in the early 1980s. …
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Notes from the Other Side Retired metal merchant, Anthony Lipmann, illuminates trading for the young entering the world of metals. When I was young in the 1960s our schoolteacher…