Articles Tagged "automobiles"

Lead and zinc fundamentals diverge

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 [...]

Will lead production cuts boomerang prices?

By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Lead Investing News On the London Metal Exchange (LME), zinc prices have nearly halved to $1,198 a tonne from the end of 2007; last Thursday, lead fell to a two-year low in London. In lead news, after reductions in automobile production, both General Motors Corp and Ford Motor Co [...]

Global Lead Prices May Rise

Lead prices on the London Metal Exchange are up from September with the majority of demand coming from the automobile sector and China.  While the prices have been weakening over the past few weeks lead should rise up due its strong fundamentals.   “Fundamentally, lead is strong. So, the prices are bound to move up [...]