GLG News by Platinum Metals Group Experts

As DeBeers grows weaker, producing countries are demanding a bigger piece of the profits from rough diamond sales.  South Africa's recent demands may drive diamond price up sharply this fall and limit the supply of certain key sizes and qualities. This means jewelers may not get some product...

The future of the personal automobile is in the gasoline or kerosene(diesel) burning internal combustion engine. Future cars will be small, lightweight, and get 50 MPG and more. The Toyota prius hybrid already gets 50 MPG right off the showroom floor. This is why Toyota is increasing the production...

Is a rare earth mining boomlet under way?

Finlay's declining margins and narrow credit line, in combination with an industry perilous close to a price war suggest investors, vendors, and capital suppliers should be concerned.  Here's why. 

Incredibly American states from which manufacturing jobs were lost by the hundreds of thousands over the last few years are bribing foreign heavy industry, the very industry that we were told by Wall Street was 'obsolete in the modern globalized American service economy, to set up manufacturing plants...

The need for hydrogen fuel for vehicles may never emerge if supercapacitor technology is commercialized. PEVs, not FCVs or FC hybrids, would be the vehicles of the future under this scenario.

By current accounts, Signet plans to ignore the price war that is shaping up in the jewelry industry this fall.  That could cost share holders a lot of value now and in the future too.  Here's why investors should be concerned.  

As Zale increases its Fy09 earnings guidance, it is apparent management is promising the least likely numbers rather than the most probable ones.  Here is why investors should be concerned.

The Detroit Three followed the lead of Jacques Nasser at Ford in the early 1990s and began to eliminate internal supplier quality management and PPAP, production parts approval processes. After internal engineering supplier monitoring had been made into a supplier self approval regime came the outsourcing...

On what basis do OEM American carmakers deserve federal loan guarantees? Is it because their legacy costs weren't their own fault? Is it because they made lower quality vehicles than their foreign competitors? Is it because they sent American jobs overseas so that the unemployed workers they created...