The base metals remain buoyant on good volumes this morning, Friday November 27, but equity indices were looking mixed.

With just 35 days remaining until the United Kingdom withdraws from the European Union, the country’s potential departure from the EU single market could see its domestic aluminium scrap market face business-critical trade barriers that, according to market participants, would send the UK’s scrap industry hurtling backwards.

Malaysian crude palm oil prices are set to move higher after the Indian government announced on Thursday...

Markets were generally buoyant this morning, Thursday November 26, with more certainty on the horizon than of late, helped by US president-elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House and with a rollout of the vaccines now insight, if things go according to plan.

Iskenderun Demir Celik (Isdemir), a subsidiary of Turkey’s biggest steel producing group Erdemir Group, has started planned maintenance at its blast furnace no 2.

Europe could produce enough battery cells to meet the needs of its captive electric vehicle (EV) industry and could even be in a position to export batteries by 2025, according to the vice-president of the European Commission.

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed this morning, Wednesday November 25, as were those on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, but overall they seem to be consolidating in high ground, with copper having set a fresh high for the year at $7,360 per tonne earlier this morning.

The loss of supply from Australia has sparked an unusually early start to China's buying of new crop feed barley from key...

Talga Resources has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global technology leader ABB to support the development and construction of Talga’s Vittangi anode project in northern Sweden.

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have risen to their highest in almost exactly two years after more buyers perceived that a true steel shortage is intensifying for the end of 2020 and the beginning of the first quarter of 2021.