Alice has seen some amazing things as she’s moved around in Wonderland. How could she forget that tea-party where she met those...

During the summer, I enjoy sailing my boat around the Solent and western Channel, so I have a natural interest in weather forecasts....

A week or so ago, Premiership Football referees’ Chief, Mike Riley, apologised for a poor decision in the match between West Bromwich...

With all the monetary instability we are facing on a global scale at the present time, should we continue to trust the role of central...

For those who revel in a juicy courtroom drama, there’s a fascinating tale unfolding in the High Court in London at the moment. It’s a...

The Libor rate rigging scandal has followed a familiar pattern. The banks agree to pay large fines. Emails are produced as evidence of...

If you were designing a price discovery mechanism which would be used as the reference for trillions of dollars (or pounds, or euros) of...

Amongst all the he dissatisfaction with the LME’s aluminium market expressed by some of the big beasts of the aluminium world there have...

Amongst all the debate, analysis and comment surrounding the tortured attempts of US executive and legislators to agree how to reconcile...

Well, there’s another LME Dinner out of the way. The (quasi-)competitive ‘it’s my 30th’, ‘my 35th’, ‘my 29th’and so on amongst my...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about glitches in computer trading (see Lord Copper 3rd September 2013 “Fat Fingers and...

“Bad money drives out good” – Gresham’s Law was named after Sir Thomas Gresham, a sixteenth-century financial agent of the English Crown...

The problem with addictive substances is that while they may be pleasant, they are also addictive. Global monetary policy setters are...

When is a contract not a contract? Most of us – particularly those from an LME background – assume that once a deal is agreed, then it...

It almost feels like a pause, perhaps a period of phoney war in the aluminium world, presumably brought about by summer vacations –...

The summer holidays are always a good time to catch up with some reading, and I brought ‘The Fear Index’ by Robert Harris with me to...

Today’s article is by James van Bregt. The dissemination of information – data, statistics, news – is a vital part of the market. In this...

Since LME aluminium warehousing hit the headlines and the lawsuits started to be flung around, premiums have begun to soften across major...

I’ve just been reading a book called ‘Rising Sun’, by Michael Crichton (he of Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park and ER fame). It was...

“Aluminium Wars” is a phrase familiar to those of us who were around and dealing in Russia during the first part of the 1990s; if we...