By Heather Matthews – Exclusive To Lead Investing News Lead spot prices remained unchanged on the London Metal Exchange (LME) as the Dow Jones plunged 700 points today. Investors raced to unload stocks as widespread fears about the current financial crisis continued. Lead is currently priced at 0.7406 (low) to 0.7497 (high), with no changes [...]
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Monday, October 6, 2008
By Heather Matthews – Exclusive To Zinc Investing News Despite the passing of the $700 billion Treasury bailout plan, investor confidence remains extremely low as sellers are choosing to offload commodities, including zinc metal and lead metal, at a rapid pace. As of October 6/08, spot prices for zinc and lead have plunged 4.53 and [...]
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Current Market Climate: Today, Congress met to discuss further revisions to the proposed 700 billion dollars bailout plan, designed for the buyout of bad debts by the U.S. Treasury. Senator Chris Dodd, (D-Conn.) has been instrumental in putting together the bailout plan and explaining its merits to Congress. According to proponents of the [...]
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Friday, September 19, 2008
By Heather Matthews - Exclusive to Lead Investing News Current market climate Zinc metal and lead metal spot prices are rising despite significant fear and panic in the investing world. Following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers World Investment Bank, and the Federal Reserve bailout (85 billion) of AIG, many analysts are predicting that more banks will [...]
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Monday, September 15, 2008
By Heather Matthews – Exclusive to Lead Investing News Current market climate Shockwaves are running through global commodities markets as America faces one of its worst stock market crash since the Great Depression. The American housing market crisis has left many firms unprotected and over-leveraged: the bankruptcy of global investment bank Lehman Brothers has created [...]
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Friday, September 12, 2008
By Heather Matthews – Exclusive to Lead Investing News Current market climate After months of investor withdrawals and plummeting profits, RAB, a major hedge funds investment firm that focuses on natural resources, has announced plans to alter its fee structure in order to keep investors. The firm reports profit decreases of more than 48 per [...]
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Monday, September 8, 2008
By Heather Matthews – Exclusive to Lead Investing News Current market climate Over the past nine months, zinc and lead spot prices have declined 26 per cent as a result of a long-term market surplus that has negated demand for the base metals worldwide. The impact of this surplus is manifesting itself in myriad forms [...]
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Friday, July 25, 2008
By Daniella D’Alimonte – Exclusive to LeadInvestingNews Although the prices of lead and zinc have already fallen substantially, analysts predict they still have further to fall. As mines continue to increase production of lead and zinc and surplus continues to grow over the next few years, investors can expect the prices to remain on the [...]
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
By Daniella D’Alimonte – Exclusive to LeadInvestingNews The cost of lead has been on a fairly steady decline for the last year. Prices have dropped to around 50 per cent since last July. Despite these plummeting profits, companies are moving forward with exploration projects. Calgary-based Mexican Silver Mines Ltd. (TSX: MSM), has recently announced a [...]
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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 [...]
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