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    • Commodity risk management: Do the benefits of hedging battery raw materials justify the costs?
      With the volatility of the battery raw materials market, commodity hedging investments can help to mitigate potential losses
      August 16, 2022
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      By David Becker
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    • Potential China SRB tender helps stabilize falling Rotterdam cobalt prices
      Market sources reported that China’s State Reserve Bureau (SRB) is planning to stockpile cobalt metal, which limited cheaper export offers from the country and helped stabilize international cobalt prices on Tuesday August 9
      August 9, 2022
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      By Julian Luk, Justin Yang, Alexander Cook
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    • Battery and wire installed on electric system of car engine
      Why China’s cobalt prices continue to slide despite easing Covid-19 lockdowns
      China’s cobalt sulfate and cobalt metal prices trended down in June after a slight pick-up in demand failed to offset the headwinds of sufficient supply and bearish sentiment following the lifting of Covid-19 lockdowns in Shanghai on June 1.
      June 29, 2022
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      By Carrie Shi, Zihao Li
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    • Chinese cobalt sulfate continues to weaken, this time taking cobalt hydroxide with it
      Constrained EV demand causes further Chinese cobalt sulfate price weakness, which has started to push hydroxide payables lower, despite additional supply issues affecting exports from southern Africa
      May 30, 2022
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    • Quarry site construction for mining
      Will formalizing artisanal mining ensure sustainable cobalt supply from the Democratic Republic of Congo?
      DRC minister, Julien Paluku Kahongya, says regulation of artisanal mining is the way forward to ensure sustainable and ethical cobalt production for the battery raw materials market
      May 25, 2022
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      By the Fastmarkets team
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    • China’s battery raw materials supply chain struggling to recover from pandemic despite government support
      Participants in China's battery raw materials market are still struggling to recover from the latest Covid-19 outbreak in the country and the related lockdown measures imposed to prevent further spread of the virus
      May 16, 2022
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      By Carrie Shi, Yingchi Yang, Zihao Li
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    • Risk outlook for battery raw materials: price dynamics, supply/demand imbalance and demand destruction
      Surging prices for battery raw materials including lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite, and the supply/demand imbalance from the lack of investment extraction and production were key topics from our recent risk outlook webinar
      May 10, 2022
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      By the Fastmarkets team
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    • Stock market chart on a glowing particle world map with connection network
      China’s Covid-19 logistics hurdles inhibiting minor metals trade flows
      Covid-19 lockdown measures in about a dozen Chinese cities have led to slowdowns in many factories and created logistics hurdles that are disrupting trade flows, including for metals such as lithium, cobalt, silicon and magnesium
      April 22, 2022
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      By the Fastmarkets team
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    • A close up of an electric car being charged using a car charging station
      Rising cobalt prices won’t dent battery sector demand
      Cobalt market participants attending last week’s MMTA conference in Sheffield, UK, claimed that cobalt price rises that have supported the market since the beginning of the year will not lead to falling demand from the quickly-growing battery industry
      April 21, 2022
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      By the Fastmarkets team
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    • African copper, cobalt logistics chain under pressure as truckers avoid DRC
      Producers are increasingly finding it hard to transport their copper and cobalt out of operation sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), due to truckers choosing to stay away from the country's border
      April 19, 2022
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      By Julian Luk
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