GLG News by Copper Pricing Trend Experts

If scrap dealers were made to account for the purchase of their wares; i.e., to affirm that their seller had leagl title to the goods, then the US scrap industry's small, family type businesses, would fail.

The first industrial revolution in the west highgraded out the world's then known and accessible metal ores and energy minerals. Extraction and refining technologies have since kept up with the declining grades of ores and minerals accessible with today's infrastructures and machinery. But finally,...

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.

The CEO of Toyota, the one and only only global car company with experience at mass producing vehicles using hybrid, gasoline-electric, power trains said, just a month ago that the lithium-ion battery is not ready for mass production. GM has received, so far, after an investment of , perhaps, one billion...

The Chinese government's demand that auto makers produce electric and internal combustion-electric (hybrid) vehicles for the Chinese domestic market has created a conflict in the global demand for minor metals. All car makers need minor metals that are critical to the production of the power train of...

GM's short sighted purchasing management, and probably Ford's as well, pinned its hopes for being able to make a profit primarily on reducing its costs of labor and materials by shifting as much as possible of its parts production to the People's republic of China. Just 3 years ago, in 2005, GM's global...

Delphi is on life-support with no health insurance, and General Motors wants the world to think that it is offering to pay some of Delphi's bills out of the goodness of its corporate heart, and for old times sake.  The truth is that the sheer and massive incompetence of GM purchasing management has...

GM's requirement that only those who say yes to Rick Wagoner and Bob Lutz may advance to management has left it without any managers or engineers who have the moral strength to say that the company's program to bring the Chevrolet Volt to market by 2010 would have been better done, with a much higher...

It has always been a mystery to OEM American automotive industry financial analysts how Toyota could afford to build and sell the Prius, and any other hybrids, without seemingly taking into account the escalating costs of the nickel metal hydride battery, NiMH, packs due to the commodity metal...

The lihtium-ion batteries that have the best performance characteristics for vehicular application are not safe or cheap enough for use in mass produced vehicles. Advances in nickel metal hydride and other technologies, including those based on silver-zinc and those based on magnesium in combination...