This article was written by Richard Horswill. All views and opinions expressed are strictly his own. For years gold has been an indicator...

I visited the LME in its new home in Finsbury Square for the first time last week. A splendid new building (cracks and  problems of last...

I’ve just finished reading a book called Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race across the Atlantic, by Sam Jefferson. No, don’t stop...

In a world where exchanges are commercial operations, required to generate profits for their shareholders, they have to focus their...

It’s long been taken as a truism that the jewel in the LME’s crown is the global reference price it publishes each day for each metal....

As younger, fresher, shinier metal men and women begin to take on the metal mantle, they have every right to do things their way. I hope...

School cutlery took a beating in the late nineteen sixties as children up and down the country tried to prove they could emulate Uri...

“The scrap trade is an honourable profession” my old late metal friend, Reg Simmonds, would say – even as he was taking my eyes out on a...

Who’d choose to be a resource economy? First off, it sounds really good. The geological formation of the earth has left you a store of...

What’s going to affect the commodity markets in 2017? Well, the glib answer is world events and then their impact upon the supply and...

Society in the middle part of the nineteenth century was changing rapidly. Industrialisation, with its attendant movement of population...