A Quick Snifter for the People

LME nickel price still higher than USD 15,000.00/mt. After the ECB meeting a stronger US-dollar subdues. Exchange rate has an influence on the stainless steel scrap price development. Especially in the Euro currency. General Data Protection Regulation causes a furore....

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Artificial versus Human Intelligence

US sanctions lead to a "Burj Khalifa formation" in aluminium and nickel. Inflation and deflation in just one day. Nickel is presently trading at its former levels. The sanctions politics of the United States are having more and more extraterritorial results. The...

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Even nickel is a Kobold metal

After the correction comes a recovery. Then a consolidation again, followed by a rise in prices. The actions of the USA and its President influence the industrial metals. Aluminium profits from the new Russian sanctions. RUSAL, one of the world's biggest aluminium...

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The centre of the universe is on the move

USA imposes import tariffs on steel and aluminium. Nickel remains unimpressed. Trump wants to protect the national security interests of his country. He will hardly mean rust and corrosion. Make America great again vs. keep America serious. Populist voters have to...

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The Ottoman Slap

Nickel pulled by stock markets. Investors are in fear of an end to loose monetary policy. The reaction of the lemmings on the financial markets is to panic. Trading systems enhance the moves even more. Industrial metal prices also make corrections, but could then...

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Does the ketchup effect help the hawks?

Nickel is working on a stubborn resistance zone. The technical chart has formed a head and shoulder pattern. Nickel ore exports from Indonesia are increasing again. Interest rate rises in the USA, Canada and Great Britain. Yield on 10 year government bonds climbing....

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