GLG News by Aluminum Pricing Trend Experts

The problem with Detroit is arrogance and know it all..for years now the leadership at Detroit three auto makers insisted on not briniging new and fresh blood from the outside..you do not the autombile industry , you are no good. Yet there are  tremendous talents out there that can can help...

As a result of the tightening of credit and the drop in crude oil prices Oil company executives will act rationally with regard to what they perceive as in the best interests of their firms.  This will involve a focus on cash generation through 1. focus on production 2. reduction in costs...

Issues that will impact projects going forward are: 1. slower world growth 2. the relative attractiveness of other competing projects worldwide 3. availabilty of finance generally will be increasingly difficult and costlier to obtain 4. in line with point 3 perceived PNG risk will become more expensive...

The writer of the article is seemingly unware of the trends that are taking place in outsourcing to low cost producing countries, including China and India and has not been following the apparent trends that are shifting the landscape not only for large manufacturing companies but even the mid sized...

qantas is in the difficult position of maintaining its current high yielding business and corporate market whilst developing a new low cost market, qantas is successfully developing a new low cost carrier in jetstar, qantas is in the unique position of being able to trial system improvements on the...

for the aluminium market to remain balanced over the coming few years would require world metal growth in the order 4% to 5%, thereafter for the aluminium market to remain balanced due to the reduced amount of announced increase in metal production necessitates a market growth of around 0.5%; ...

Base metal prices have been somewhat bearish as of late as have other commodity prices such as oil and gas.  Speculators often react and overreact to daily news items forcing large swings in commodity pricing. However the greatest real effect on commodity prices will be whether Chinese buyers come...

Sanctioning Iran or Zimbabwe or any such nations is a bad approach to politics as well as economics. It is true as the writer says that the US efforts on sanctions are not coordinated, worse , these measures are never properly enforced and loopholes benefit a select few. More importantly, ecnomic sanctions,...

The article rightfully points out to the increase in demand for steel products and metals in general and that countries as India, China and the Middle are one big construction site with high demand for raw metals thus increasing  prices of the benchmark products such as hot-rolled carbon steel...

While reviewing the performance of resource funds for the first quarter of 2008,  I realized that there is now an availability of buying or selling specific commodities for actual users as a 'hedge' against price volatility.