In the recent base metals slide, lead has earned the illustrious title “worst performer on the London Metal Exchange.” Despite this moniker, analysts are confident that the metal will rebound by the end of the year.
Read the full article: "For Lead, some Relief is on the Horizon"
Monday, May 17, 2010
Lead futures declined sharply on Monday, as risk adverse investors abandoned the volatile base metals market and headed for the safe haven investments such as gold.
Read the full article: "Lead Futures Take a Hit as Risk Averse..."
Monday, June 15, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Lead Investing News
Lead and zinc prices have been on board for the base metal rally, zinc on the LME is currently trading for $1,633.50 per tonne, up 30 per cent so far this year. The metal used to galvanize steel touched a four-year low of $1,038 on Dec.12, [...]
Read the full article: "Lead and Zinc join base metal rally"
Monday, April 6, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Lead Investing News
As the global economy arguably trots down the path to a recovery, the metals are diverging in prices due to differences in their fundamental dynamics. Lead was the second-best performer of the LME metals last quarter, coming in a few percentage points behind copper. Lead gained 27 [...]
Read the full article: "Lead and zinc positioned for recovery"
Sunday, March 22, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Lead Investing News
The Fed’s announcement to purchase treasuries sent lead and zinc on their largest ascent in two months. Fed officials voted on March 18 to buy Treasury and mortgage bonds in an effort to revive America’s economy, lifting stocks as well as commodities. Copper, zinc and aluminum all [...]
Read the full article: "Fed announcement spurs zinc, bypasses lead"
Sunday, March 15, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Lead Investing News
Chinese lead and zinc refineries are interested in integration and expansion, but not mergers or acquisitions. The Chinese government showed its support by providing a plan to encourage the non-ferrous industries to restructure and integrate. The government has also mentioned that it wants to support the industry’s [...]
Read the full article: "China to force out lead and zinc juniors?"
Sunday, March 8, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Lead Investing News
Lead and zinc prices both started 2009 strongly, but as the year has progressed lead’s better near term fundamentals have led it to continue as the more robust of the two metals. Zinc stocks on the London Metal Exchange have consistently risen; through the month of January [...]
Read the full article: "Lead and zinc fundamentals diverge"
Monday, March 2, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Lead Investing News
Positive sentiment that spread through the markets during the week edged up most of the base metals. The U.K. benchmark FTSE 100 Index jumped 0.9 per cent and Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average closed 2.7 per cent higher in Tokyo. Pessimistic data still came out of the [...]
Read the full article: "Market sentiment wins in price tug-of-war"
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Along with other industrial purposes, one of leads main and growing uses continues to be in batteries. Peter Theyer, geologist for Winnipeg’s Wildcat Exploration, says it is almost irreplaceable for this use at this time. This is largely because of the high volumes of cars being produced.
Previously used in a lot of household products such [...]
Read the full article: "Introduction to Lead Investing"
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
If you are like many people, the last time you read about commodities in the news was when Bre-X Minerals collapsed in 1997, after news broke that the company had falsified results and the gold they had reported was nowhere to be found.
Thousands of investors all over the world lost billions of dollars and the [...]
Read the full article: "Introduction to Commodities Investing"
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