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Sep 12, 2013
When is a Contract not a Contract
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...
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geoffreysambrook
Sep 6, 2013
Summer Pause in Aluminium Squabbles
It almost feels like a pause, perhaps a period of phoney war in the aluminium world, presumably brought about by summer vacations –...
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geoffreysambrook
Sep 3, 2013
Fat Fingers and Responsibility
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...
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geoffreysambrook
Aug 22, 2013
What Data Vendors can Learn from Apple
Today’s article is by James van Bregt. The dissemination of information – data, statistics, news – is a vital part of the market. In this...
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geoffreysambrook
Aug 20, 2013
Winners and Losers in the Aluminium Stakes
Since LME aluminium warehousing hit the headlines and the lawsuits started to be flung around, premiums have begun to soften across major...
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geoffreysambrook
Aug 14, 2013
Stalling Sun, Rising Dragon?
I’ve just been reading a book called ‘Rising Sun’, by Michael Crichton (he of Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park and ER fame). It was...
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geoffreysambrook
Aug 8, 2013
New Aluminium Wars
“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...
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geoffreysambrook
Aug 2, 2013
Alice in the Washington Wonderland
Alice had been getting very excited; since her visit to Brussels a couple of months ago, she’d got the travel bug, and now she and some...
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geoffreysambrook
Jul 22, 2013
Free to Trade?
My general approach to life is that in principal, people should be allowed to do what they want. The caveat, of course, is that that is...
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geoffreysambrook
Jul 22, 2013
Welcome to Lord Copper
For around the last three and a half years, I have been writing the Lord Copper column published by Metal Bulletin. From today, that...
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geoffreysambrook
Jul 10, 2013
Warehousing – we need to keep it simple
So, the great warehousing debate rolls on, with another review suggesting new regulations and controls on how warehouse keepers must...
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geoffreysambrook
Jun 19, 2013
The race to replace Martin Abbott
The upcoming few months of rumour, speculation and guesswork will be interesting for LME-watchers, as time moves on inexorably towards...
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geoffreysambrook
Jun 10, 2013
A valedictory for Martin Abbott
It is not really that surprising that Martin Abbott has decided to resign his position at the London Metal Exchange, with effect from the...
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geoffreysambrook
May 24, 2013
What fee increases mean for the LME's future
Looking at the recently announced increase in clearing house fees for LME transactions, it is difficult not to have a degree of sympathy...
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geoffreysambrook
May 13, 2013
The future of aluminium
A couple of weeks ago, Metal Bulletin published a piece by Jethro Wookey looking at the cloudy future for European primary aluminium...
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geoffreysambrook
May 9, 2013
The changing face of metal news
It is the 100th anniversary of Metal Bulletin this year. We should congratulate all those who have been responsible for maintaining the...
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geoffreysambrook
Apr 30, 2013
Price falls point the way to close examination of production costs
The nice cosy arrangement where governments print bucketloads of new money to reduce the size of their debts, and that money then gets...
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geoffreysambrook
Apr 12, 2013
A wild ride for the LME
The wise men of the Victorian age established a model for the LME that has prospered mightily, powering through world wars, depressions...
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geoffreysambrook
Apr 10, 2013
Easter Bunny or Mad March Hare?
The Easter Bunny has popped up with a riddle for all of us this year: “When is a euro not a euro?” Not a very difficult one, is it? I...
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geoffreysambrook
Mar 8, 2013
Alice in an EU Wonderland
Alice went off to Brussels recently; she’d heard that the European Wonderland was even more full of exciting new things than she’d found...
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