Articles Tagged "alloys"

Vale strikes continue to drive LME nickel prices

By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Speculation, combined with threatened supplies due to strikes at Vale Inco, has sent the price of nickel on a much needed upswing. On the London Metal Exchange, nickel closed t at US$ 19,100 per tonne in the previous session. Over in India, on the MCX, nickel [...]

Steelmakers’ search for nickel substitute in hiatus

By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Nickel’s plummet from all time highs may actually work out in the end to benefit the metal. The hunt for effective substitutes for nickel in making stainless steel may have slowed down after nickel prices tumbled around 80 per cent in less than two years. While [...]

Strengthening greenback puts downward pressure on Nickel

By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News London Metal Exchange nickel dropped by approximately five per cent to two week’s low as the stronger greenback made the metal more expensive for holders of other currencies. Nickel dropped by 4.7 per cent to US$19,300 a tonne, it’s lowest since August 20, 2008. LME inventories [...]

Low nickel prices drop stainless steel costs

By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News On Tuesday, there was a rapid sell-off in all of the industrial metals as worries about the health of the global economy prompted investors to dump commodities. The drop in the price of nickel was short-lived, though. On Wednesday, nickel jumped to $19,175 compared to $18,100 as [...]