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...Processes involved in making lithium-ion batteries include producing electrodes, pasting the electrodes on to thin metal sheets, rolling them up, putting them in metal cans, filling the cans with liquid...
...A sheet-metal sculpture, “Tête d’homme barbu” (1962), is the latest work in the exhibition, with other highlights including an unusually tender drawing of Dora Maar from 1937, bought from the sitter’s estate...
...Russia’s invasion of Ukraine briefly sent the price of the yellow metal above $2,000 an ounce in March — and near its record high....
...It also invested heavily in the production process to build moats around its manufacturing innovations, while rivals were just giving supplier spec sheets and saying: “build this.”...
...Some telecoms groups have sold off all of their towers business — the tall metal structures used for mobile and other antennas — to acquisitive groups such as Cellnex and Blackstone’s Phoenix Tower International...
...What’s more, the model makes sense, given the demographic and housing supply issues, low unemployment, strong household balance sheets and wage growth we are seeing....
...He ran through a series of jobs — court stenographer for the US military in Japan; cab driver in Chicago; and as a first-rate salesman of photocopiers, adding machines and scrap metal, a business owned by...
...Well, the reason may be that White Oak isn’t a disinterested outsider and is trying to manage its existing exposure to Gupta’s metals group....
...German financial regulator BaFin is also pushing a Greensill banking subsidiary to reduce its exposure to Gupta after probing the bank’s balance sheet and raising concerns around the level of risk connected...
...“We’re very genuine about putting on the table a draft JV term sheet,” Mr Palmer told the Financial Times ahead of meetings with leading shareholders in London....
...Smart reads Precarious metals Mike Nowak’s precious metals trading desk was a diamond fixture in JPMorgan’s crown, until one of his former employees turned on him and told US authorities about systemic...
...If successful, the project could offer US carmakers and battery producers a secure supply of the metal, reducing reliance on the handful of large producers in Chile and Australia....
..., rich balance sheets and deep liquidity in the marketplace....
...precious metals do better than other commodities....
...The midtown Manhattan offices from which David Millstone and David Winter run the world’s largest roofing company are mirror images of each other, their doors left open to the tidy lounge between them where...
...worthless things like shiny metals....
...The majority of this growth was expected to come in Recycling (+28% UBSe) reflecting high metal prices with Catalysts and Energy & Surface Technology showing modest growth (+2% and 10% respectively)....
...Brent and metals are off 4 per cent or so. You know why....
...Roy Harvey, chief executive, said the company had been “reducing complexity, driving returns, and strengthening the balance sheet” to make Alcoa “a much stronger company even as commodity markets remain...
...It wants national champions with stronger balance sheets, to allow for the higher leverage needed to take on major projects and grow through acquisitions....
...Kapor Klein wishes that balance sheets would take into account the impact of the investments on global problems....
...The company said the price achieved from the sale of its US distribution operation to Beacon Roofing Supply represents 16 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation....
...The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and shrinking its balance sheet, increasing the chance of divergences in the value of futures contracts and cash bonds....
...As part of the ATI-Tsingshan agreement, which is subject to regulatory approval, ATI will roll and further process the slabs into sheets....
...And not all companies have warmed to Melrose’s advances. A hostile bid in 2004 for Novar, a printing, metals and building company, was thwarted when Honeywell emerged as a “white knight”....
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