I’ve spent the last week or so sailing, with limited access to emails and the internet, so I haven’t really been in close touch with what...

A long time ago, back at the beginning of this century, there was a business called Emetra, which aimed to be a kind of one stop...

This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. Enter the Dark Net, the world of...

I’ve got friends who love to talk about the expectation of black swan events. They like to believe they are telling us something we need...

This article was written by Fred Piechoczek. All views and opinions are strictly his own. The Evolution of the Modern World This personal...

Sub title Alice shook her head as she woke up. She glanced towards the window, then at the clock on her bedside table. Then she looked...

The global economy looks a bit flaky this morning and the UK political scene looks a complete mess. Why? Because the UK has just voted in...

This article was written by Anthony Lipmann. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. If ever there was an analogy for the...

With the UK’s EU referendum now upon us, I had toyed with the idea of addressing the issue in this column, and indeed I had discussed...

Last week, I wrote about the possibility that an alternative to the LME, while by no means any kind of certainty, was perhaps a little...

If you were designing from scratch a mechanism for trading metal forwards or futures to give producers, consumers and traders the...

German military strategists  from Bismarck onwards were very clear that the most serious error they could make when plotting their moves...

The metal markets are stuck in a bit of a rut at the moment, marking time. Generally, the supply side is pretty easy, with high levels of...

It’s the most important electoral decision we will have to make in a generation, we are told. It will chart the course of the nation (and...

Electric vehicles promise to shake up the metals industry, conferring the status of essential on some hitherto largely sidelined elements...

How much do you need to pay someone to run a large company? Is one million enough? Five million? Ten? Fifty? Does it depend on the type...

I guess quite a number of readers will have visited Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, the site of World War Two code-breaking; compared...

These days, even people who in the past used to think they understood what was happening in the market are frequently baffled by...

In the late seventeenth century, around the village of Salem, in Massachusetts, there was an outbreak of group hysteria that led to...

Steel is currently the metal of the moment – and not in a good way. The woes of Port Talbot, the UK’s last major-league crude steel...