GLG News by Platinum Metals Group Experts

End users of minor metals for critical purposes, i.e., for purposes that are not economically or technologically possible without a particular minor metal, can hedge the required supply of metal by financing the producer's output, through offtake agreements, for example, and by being the buyer of last...

Michael Hill's entry into the US market during the 4th quarter of 2008 may mean more than lost sales for mid market jewelers in the Chicago area.  Here's why.

Current changes in gold price may hit retailers badly, in many ways.

Fluctuating gold prices and metal shortages could cost jewelers both sales and margin this fall.  Here's why.

As Target shifts its attention to Wal-Mart, the dollar strengthens, oil prices fall, and commoditiy prices decline.  Here is why Target's focus on Wal-Mart may be an expensive distraction.

Limited Brands and the Gap sell different products, but have many of the same problems.  Here's why results may not meaningfully improve for either company

In just this year Cerberus' accountants may have inadvertently exposed the seamy side of cost cutting in the American OEM automtoive industry: 1. Overcharging by non-competitive politically correct suppliers, 2. Underbidding by suppliers desparate to keep their own factories open, and now 3. Short-weighting...

With global economic growth slowing, Tiffany's sales and earnings may substantially decline.  Here's why

Whitehall's liquidation sale will have significant consequences for publicly traded jewelers like Kay, Zale, and Finlay not only this fall, but in future quarters also.  Here's why. 

Conventional economic trend fitting cannot anticipate changes in market direction.  It always over or under shoots. Logistic substitution, on the other hand, does anticipate changes in direction and has accurately forecast the share of oil in primary energy markets.