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    • ***COMMENT: Getting better all the time
      Metal Bulletin’s new website has been a long time coming. Over the past few years we’ve been thinking carefully about how we present our service, working closely with subscribers to find out more about their business and gathering feedback on how you use our products. Some messages were pretty clear. MB is the only place to find news, insight and analysis on all metals markets, whether you’re interested in tungsten or non-grain oriented electrical steel. And it’s all important.
      January 31, 2011
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    • Metal Bulletin launches Apex, Analyst Price Expectations
      Metal Bulletin brings the metal market its Analyst Price Expectations — or Apex for short. MB had three questions as it created Apex. Where will base metal prices be trading in the future? Which bank, brokerage or research company’s published price expectations have been most accurate previously? And finally was it possible to create a forecast based on the collective intelligence of the market, but weigh it towards those with the most accurate forecasts previously?
      January 25, 2011
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    • MB Apex: Analyst Price Expectations methodology
      The Metal Bulletin APEX is a unique system of combining the best research and analysis in metals prices to create the most accurate forecast available in the market. Metal Bulletin utilises analyst and market participant forecasts and combines them in a way that reflects the past performance of each analyst/desk. Analysts and desks which consistently call the market better in both the short-term and long-term than their peers are weighted higher in the model, and the leading analysts/desks for each metal are identified at the end of each quarter.
      January 25, 2011
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    • ***UPDATE: Glencore, Credit Suisse terminate trading alliance
      Glencore International and Credit Suisse have agreed to terminate their strategic alliance and replace it with a licensing and consultancy deal, Glencore told MB
      January 17, 2011
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    • Glencore, Credit Suisse terminate trading alliance
      Glencore and Credit Suisse have agreed to terminate their strategic alliance and replace it with a “licensing and consulting agreement”, Glencore told MB.
      January 17, 2011
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    • ***LORD COPPER: Death of the metals broker?
      I wonder how the profitability of London Metal Exchange brokers has been affected by all the changes in the market over recent years.
      January 7, 2011
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    • Beware tungsten posing as gold, warns anti-counterfeiting bureau
      Fraudsters have been using base metals such as tungsten to exploit unwary gold investors with counterfeits and scams, the director of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau has claimed
      January 5, 2011
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    • ***REVISITED: One small change
      Steelmakers should brace themselves for more upheaval in the way their raw materials are priced.
      December 30, 2010
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    • ***REVISITED: US steel sector falls out over Anshan-SDC jv
      Anshan Iron and Steel Group’s investment in Steel Development Company (SDC) wasn’t the first time a Chinese company had taken a stake in a US steelmaker
      December 29, 2010
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    • ***REVISITED — Mission: Control
      2010 was not a big year for steel mergers and acquisitions. Many company valuations sank to all-time lows, so most businesses battened down the hatches and concentrated on the fight to survive in a volatile market. But the Ukrainian steelmaking sector was one glaring exception.
      December 28, 2010
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