Category Archives: Industry news

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COLUMN-Tin’s problem is too little not too much supply: Andy Home

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LME confirms plan to introduce position limits

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Enhancing Liquidity at LME

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COLUMN-If China’s slowing, why are its copper imports so strong? Andy Home | Reuters

COLUMN-If China’s slowing, why are its copper imports so strong? Andy Home

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Goldman Said to Hire Commodities Traders From Glencore, Moore Capital

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COLUMN-How unsexy regulation is already changing metal markets: Andy Home  #LME #CME

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Mercuria looks to grow metals, softs footprint 

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China’s CCB agrees to buy majority stake in LME ring dealer Metdist 

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Hong Kong stock exchange proposes ‘London connect scheme’ for metals

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The LME, the Ring – and Arbitration

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COLUMN-LME Week; adjusting to life after the supercycle: Andy Home #LME #metals

COLUMN-LME Week; adjusting to life after the supercycle: Andy Home

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Chinese investors hamstrung by stock-trading restrictions are piling into copper trading, a shift that analysts and traders say has distorted the global market for the metal. Source: Chinese Copper-Trading Surge Shakes Up Market – WSJ

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Sinosteel may be about to default on its debts

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Ex-Jefferies duo banks on futures beyond metals

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China’s CCB in talks to buy London Metal Exchange broker Metdist – sources

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Chinese copper financing, the anthology http://t.co/Zk2e8P39PG — FT Alphaville (@FTAlphaville) October 15, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

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Spotlight falls on conflict between LME, floor members

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LME: New regulations could ‘drive out’ commodities trading from Europe

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CME to launch physically delivered lead contract Nov 23

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China was never far from the conversation on Day 2 of LME Week, which ended in a gala dinner for 2,000 people at Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. In the morning, Garry Jones, chief executive of the London Metal … Continue reading

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Humbled Metal Traders Lick Wounds Amid Slump, Ponder Next Moves

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Mitsui to shut precious metals business in London, New York-sources

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LME makes informal approach to buy London’s Baltic Exchange – sources

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Metal moguls trade tales of a tough year

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COLUMN-LME; revamped and resurgent but with a troubled heart? Andy Home

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LME open-outcry trading alive and well despite JP Morgan exit

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Ospraie Said to Back New Metals Firm Started by Ex-Noble Trader

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Gavin Prentice joins Levmet board

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COLUMN: Commodity slump intensifies risks to emerging markets: Kemp

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LME signs up 9 warehouse firms for new aluminium premium contracts

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Glencore to cut zinc production by a third. #metals

Glencore to cut zinc production by a third http://t.co/RvKRTjdHXL

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Noble Group to scale back metals trading business

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LME delays deadline for market maker applications

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We would like to welcome Berkeley Futures Ltd as our newest Cat 4 member in time for #LMEWeek http://t.co/ffolN5JIRw pic.twitter.com/XZTATBDayI — LME (@LME_news) October 8, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

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COLUMN-Copper’s outlook may be rosier than you thought: Andy Home

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China vs. Copper: That sinking feeling Source: China vs. Copper: That sinking feeling – Mineweb

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LME Dinner Week 2015 – Shadows Loom Source: LME Dinner Week 2015 – Shadows Loom – Lord Copper

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COLUMN-Aluminium premium bubble over? Just don’t tell the LME: Andy Home

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LME Week 2015 – What’s On Where

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Orion Said to Hire Portfolio Managers for Commodities Fund

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