Articles Tagged "industrial"

Nickel market suffering from oversupply

By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News As supply and demand fundamentals have rapidly diverged, nickel has slumped more than 80 per cent from its record $51,800 a tonne price reached in May 2007. Miners have been attempting to bring the split fundamentals into line with production cuts.  So far cuts equal to about [...]

New Caledonia’s Congress advocated legislation on nickel mining

New Caledonia’s Congress has advocated several crucial pieces of legislation related to the nickel mining industry, which is regarded as the backbone of the French Pacific territory’s economy. For full story, click here

Lack of purchases halt nickel

By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Nickel prices entered the New Year with upward momentum, as the annual commodity index rebalancing was positive for the base metals. Now, it is one month into the year and the gains have halted.  London Metal Exchange three-month nickel closed Friday at US$11,150 a metric tonne, [...]

Growing inventories weigh on nickel

By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Under the weight of high inventories, nickel is anticipated to be one of the slowest industrial metals to rebound. LME stocks of nickel are at their highest since around mid-1995. The world refined nickel market was in surplus by 42,900 metric tonnes in January-November of 2008, [...]