Lip service

Transaction volumes on the nickel market of the London Metal Exchange (LME) are rising – an expression of a gradual return in confidence in the only available nickel price reference world-wide that is still widely accepted. It would appear that the wounds caused by the market turmoil of…

Fido home alone

Since the last edition, nickel prices have hardly changed, perhaps just having a slight tendency on the downside. The low for nickel on the London Metal Exchange (LME) of USD 15,900.00/mt at the end of November 2023 was indeed tested once more, but so far without success. At the moment nickel is trading around…

In search of the black mass

It is not surprising that in this year metals do not belong to the best performers among the various types of investment and commodity classes. In particular, the important industry and battery metal nickel did not escape unscathed in 2023. At the beginning of the year, nickel was still being traded at USD 30,000/mt on the London Metal Exchange (LME), but now the price is…