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...It mainly produces nickel pig iron, a semi-refined product that is a cheap alternative to pure nickel in the stainless steel manufacturing process....
...And in procuring Congolese cobalt or Indonesian nickel, it faces tough competition from the Chinese refiners and battery makers who currently dominate that supply chain....
...Nickel futures in Shanghai fell more than 2 per cent on Tuesday, bringing them 28 per cent lower for the year to date....
...The country has abundant reserves of nickel — a key mineral for creating batteries — and is aiming to become a hub for the new energy supply chain....
...Their deaths, including Walter Scott, Thomas Murphy and David “Sandy” Gottesman, have forced Berkshire to bring in a number of new overseers....
...Fedspeak: Thomas Barkin, president of the Richmond branch of the Federal Reserve, will be in Danville, Virginia, to provide an economic update before the local chamber of commerce....
...“The electric vehicle world will be defined clearly by battery costs, so it makes total sense to have certain control about that,” said Thomas Schmall, who oversees new technologies and component purchasing...
...“The speed of the switchover to cobalt-free batteries in China took the market by surprise,” said Thomas Kavanagh, a battery materials specialist at Argus, a pricing agency....
...Big mining groups are seeking growth opportunities in the metals needed for the energy transition such as copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium but few large projects are available....
...The electrification, renewables and storage required in the energy transition will vastly increase demand for copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium — which the industry likes to call “future-facing commodities...
...News round-up Microsoft to face EU probe over Teams and Office bundling (FT) Nickel fraud defendant blames losses on Trafigura’s ‘own mischiefs’ (FT) Searchlight Capital buys UK asset manager Gresham...
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...Columnist Helen Thomas discusses the disastrous impact of Brexit on the UK food industry....
...Other base metals nickel, zinc and tin also jumped up by more than 5 per cent after sliding lower since March on macroeconomic fears that have trumped supply concerns....
...Fresh off the resignation of the company’s chief risk officer Thomas Grosse this week — the third senior executive to depart in less than a year — an internal memo has surfaced from last year in which N26...
...Nickel-and-diming the Anaplan shareholders will cause future buyout targets to take notice....
...I am hoping it will be as good, but not as depressing, as Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys....
...The secure supply of metals has risen up the agenda of western governments after Russia, a huge producer of nickel and platinum, waged war on Ukraine....
...BMW sustainability boss Thomas Becker said the Munich-based carmaker was also not concerned. “We have long term supply contracts with all battery cell suppliers....
...Read this for an intelligent take on why the biggest miners of “future facing commodities” such as copper, nickel and cobalt have been investing so little in growth....
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