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Copper prices on the London Metal Exchange climbed in early Asian trading on Monday May 21 after China’s premier Wen Jiabao indicated that the government will increase its focus on improving economic growth.
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An absence of buyers, European holidays and a tightness of material dominated the cobalt market this week in a quiet few days of trading.
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Chinese interest in the tin market is expected to increase as London Metal Exchange prices fall, and arbitrage opportunities open up, traders told Metal Bulletin.
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Analysts at RBC Capital Markets have downgraded their recommendation for Anglo American’s stocks from outperform to sector perform on uncertainty about the profitability of the South African platinum group metals (PGM) sector.
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The Court of International Trade (CIT) has ruled that the Commerce Department’s decision not to apply "total adverse facts available" to a Chinese magnesium producer was not legally justified, and it has remanded the matter for further proceedings.
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Junior nickel miner First Nickel Inc. has entered into a $10-million revolving credit facility, the company said Friday.
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The copper industry must strive to maintain its market share in the face of technological advances and substitution possibilities, according to this year’s recipient of the Copper Club’s Ankh Award.
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Domestic ferrosilicon prices are coming under pressure as sellers aggressively chase available business following a period of little activity.
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U.S. molybdenum prices have fallen as some sellers look to pare down stocks due to uncertainty about future demand as the market approaches the traditionally slower summer period.
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China has blasted the U.S. Commerce Department for acting in an "unfair" manner in ruling that imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells were sold in the United States at less than fair value.
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American Manganese Inc. has appointed Jan Eigenhuis to its board of directors.
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American Manganese Inc.’s capital cost estimate for its planned Artillery Peak project in Arizona has soared to $477 million, more than five times the initial projection of $90 million.
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The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration has made an affirmative preliminary determination in its anti-dumping duty investigation of imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China.
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European secondary aluminium ingot prices remained stable on Friday May 18, with poor demand adding to the woes of producers struggling with low prices and high raw material costs.
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Base metals prices consolidated early gains in Friday’s official trading on the London Metal Exchange on Friday May 18, as the euro improved and market participants expected short-covering ahead of the weekend.
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Antimony prices crept higher on Friday May 18 while manganese prices fell, as the supply of each was affected by the clampdown on border trade between China and Vietnam.
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Slovenian aluminium producer Talum is close to concluding a deal with a new alumina supplier after returning to a full capacity of 75,000 tpy, a company spokesman told Metal Bulletin
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BHP Billiton is one of the poster children for the commodities super-cycle: a mining company whose immense upstream assets in copper and iron ore have fed the industrialisation of China since the early years of the 21st century and enabled it to return $52 billion to shareholders between 2001 and 2011.
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Spot nickel premiums rose by $30 this week, as falling LME nickel prices made import profitable.
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Indian miner Vedanta’s earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) for the full year to March 31 came to $4 billion, on increased volumes and the integration of recent acquisitions.
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Copper prices firmed in pre-market trading on the London Metal Exchange on Friday May 18, as traders balanced the prospect of short-covering against the bearish economic outlook for Europe.
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None of the bidders looking to buy the London Metal Exchange plan to make substantial changes to the exchange's date structure, warehouses or open-outcry trading ring, Metal Bulletin understands.
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Copper prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange inched down on Friday May 18 as investors remained cautious in the face of market uncertainty.
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Chilean sub-contractors at four of copper producer Codelco’s operations are protesting about working conditions, Metal Bulletin has heard.