By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Nickel Investing News Nickel prices recently recovered from a seven week-low, but obviously not enough for Canadian mineral exploration company Crowflight Minerals Inc (CML.TO) which has decided to down shutters at its Bucko Lake nickel mine in Manitoba for three months. Around 45 employees are to get the pink slip, [...]
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
By Kishori Krishnan Exclusive To Nickel Investing News A crisis of sorts appears to be playing out in Australia, which is the third largest nickel producer, after Canada and Russia. Mining experts have woken up to the fact that Australia needs to protect against potential loss of market overseas. “Two years ago, we had nickel [...]
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Nickel took part in the base metal’s slide this week; with nickel futures dropping from cash buyer $15,600 per tonne on the LME last Friday, to $14,950 per tonne on Tuesday’s close. The sharp losses in futures values hit all the base metals as another round [...]
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Monday, April 20, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Demand for nickel scrap lost its luster among offshore buyers in January, sinking to its lowest level in more than three years. Nickel prices have rallied as much as 14 per cent since the start of the month, but are likely to remain volatile. Analysts predict [...]
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Thompson Citizen reports Vale Inco cuts non-union staff as well as management jobs. While there was no reprieve this time, it could have been worse – much worse – here as the Brazilian mining giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce of Rio de Janeiro eliminated 900 jobs from its global workforce of 14,000 on Tuesday, with [...]
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Nickel has kicked off 2009 as the worst performing metal; declining 15 per cent in the first two months of the year, the most among LME traded metals. Inventories are well on their way to rise above 100,000 tonnes, the highest since June 1995. Prices will [...]
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Nickel prices plunged 59 per cent last year, as demand around the globe collapsed. For the nickel market to improve in 2009, two key events need to transpire. First off, demand from steelmakers needs to improve, and secondly, China’s economy needs to grow. Currently, steelmakers are [...]
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News This week, the base metals have remained range bound, waiting for cues from OPEC Decision, and the conclusion for the proposed auto bailout. After the Federal Reserve issued yet another rate cut that sent the dollar reeling, the base metals were steady. On India’s Multi Commodities Exchange [...]
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News The industrial metals experienced an early week price lift backed by stock market momentum from China’s stimulus plan. Further impetus to the metals came by way of a pledge by the G20 group to take all necessary measures to get financial markets back on their feet. [...]
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Nickel Investing News Miners across the globe are a worried lot, what with the plunging price of nickel putting pressure on companies to streamline operations. Mines in Australia have been especially hard hit, due to the weakening Australian dollar; down 10 per cent against the US greenback since mid [...]
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