High stock levels are keeping consumer requirements low despite a recovery in automotive demand, Fastmarkets has observed

Australian mining giant BHP has added to the growing industry pressure on the London Metal Exchange to reform its benchmark nickel price to make it more reflective of the physical market

Growing consumer demand for automotive manufacturers to use sustainable materials is driving the uptake of low-carbon aluminium, with producer Rio Tinto announcing a partnership with BMW Group to supply the metal

European aluminium producer Norsk Hydro will not bring smelter capacity back into the market until demand assurance returns, the company’s chief financial officer Pål Kildemo told Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview

Fastmarkets has amended its aluminium P1020A (MJP) quarterly premium assessment methodology.

Glencore’s new chief executive officer Gary Nagle is learning a key management lesson the hard way, namely: “You can't please all of the people all of the time

Global commodities trader Trafigura is suing Indian businessman Prateek Gupta and companies connected with him after discovering an allegedly elaborate scheme of nickel fraud

Nickel market participants around the world reacted with alarm to the allegations of “systematic fraud” raised by global commodity trading house Trafigura that could result in losses of up to $577 million

India has tough targets when it comes to increasing the volume of steel scrap being consumed by the country’s steel sector, but to reach its targets it will have to consider the supplies of such material that are available to Indian mills, an industry conference has heard

There’s widespread agreement that the London Metal Exchange nickel contract is broken, but little consensus on how to get it going again.