An MF Global client's miserable Tuesday as told to Janie Davies

It’s sad to see the travails of MF Global, which was suspended from trading on the London Metal Exchange yesterday as a result of the fallout from ceo Jon Corzine's bad bet on European sovereign debt. For those of us who have been around a while, we remember the original Gerald Metals brokerage business, the merger with Man, and then the various changes of name over the last few years.

Where to start with the 2011 LME dinner week? Not with the obvious: the potential sale of the exchange, although I do have some views and comments about that

MF Global's note valuing Glencore's shares at between 360 and 400 pence each may have aroused some ire at the trading company and producer, whose value has suffered since it listed in London and Hong Kong last month.

Metal Bulletin prices global copper premiums on a daily basis. Please find the methodology enclosed.

Goldman's recent advisories on copper have called the market accurately... or have they driven it?

I had an interesting discussion recently with some friends from a premier-league mining house, which over the years has demonstrated that they understand how to use the London Metal Exchange

The cobalt industry is lining up to make one thing absolutely clear: cobalt is not a conflict mineral

The bull run on commodities will be over by 2015, and star performers such as copper are likely to suffer most when it comes to an end, according to BCA Research.

The copper bear seemed to have woken from his slumber at the start of the Cesco conference in Santiago last week, as traders talked of the possible effect of metal from Chinese stockpiles entering the market, and the inevitability of copper price corrections.