Category Archives: People, companies & exchanges

Chile’s Codelco buys two LNG cargoes from Metrogas for 2014, 2015

Rio Tinto Slashes Costs as Iron-Ore, Coal Output Hit Records

Posco Selects Kwon Oh-joon as New CEO

Daye Nonferrous Close to Buy a Copper Mine in Africa with a Chinese SOE.

Lenders extend steel trader Stemcor’s debt standstill to end-Feb

Chalco Surges After Returning to Profit in 2013

Trafigura passes baton to next generation of billionaire traders

Deutsche Börse deepens push into Asia commodities, takes majority stake in Cleartrade

World’s biggest steel trader eyes assets of troubled Lucchini

BTG hires commodities chief in London

The Monthly Prompt – Jan 2014.

China brings fresh blood to LME Ring

Alcoa Pays $384 Million to Resolve Bahrain-Bribery Probe

Metals trader Malcolm Freeman’s brokerage approved by regulator

Shanghai Gold Exchange eyes launch of international board

Cargill to open new steel processing and distribution center in Colorado.

SNL Acquires IntierraRMG; Rebrands SNL Metals Economics Group as SNL Metals & Mining.

LME approves GF Financial Markets as category 1 member; Lee Kee Group and Vitol S.A as category 5 members.

Alba seals new deal with Norwegian shipper.

We’re at the mercy of J.P. Morgan – MarketWatch.

Rosendal appointed as Kemira’s new President and CEO

ICE looks to sell part of Euronext ahead of IPO

Oleg Korzhov to take over at Mechel following Mikhel resignation

KCM to invest $64m in Mimbula open pit

Tin International switches targets for 2014

USS-Posco to lay off 690 employees in California

In memoriam: Larry Sax

Shangdong Steel sells two subsidiaries.

Gang Xia: Million Link to build larger metal trading platform by innovation

China’s Jiaozuo Wanfang plans to buy 20% interest in China Rare Metals

Mechel sells two ferroalloy assets to Turkey’s Yildirim Group.