me-metals: The Shanghai Gold Exchange plans to expand its warehouse network to Hong Kong, helping to raise the profile of its yuan-denominated products, including for the precious metal, beyond mainland China.
News ID: 11962 Publish Date : 2025/05/07
me-metals: Traders including Trafigura Group and Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. are drawing down stocks of copper on the London Metal Exchange, as strong Chinese buying tightens the market for the bellwether metal despite fears of recession.
News ID: 11956 Publish Date : 2025/05/05
me-metals: Analysts in a quarterly Reuters poll have forecast an average annual gold price above $3,000 for the first time, with global trade friction and a swing away from the US dollar powering demand.
News ID: 11949 Publish Date : 2025/05/02
me-metals: Surging prices for gold and other byproducts are keeping China’s copper smelters afloat and could fend off significant production cuts this year despite a key gauge of industry profitability forecast to slump even further into the red.
News ID: 11948 Publish Date : 2025/05/02
me-metals: A gauge of strength in China’s copper market has jumped to the highest since late 2023 as buyers scramble to secure supplies.
News ID: 11939 Publish Date : 2025/04/30
me-metals: Australia’s Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. is in talks with the Trump administration to counter rising costs for the refinery it’s building in Texas, while at the same time warning that the president’s tariff agenda could threaten the project.
News ID: 11936 Publish Date : 2025/04/29
me-metals: BHP China’s gold consumption fell 5.96% year-on-year to 290.492 tons in the first quarter of 2025 as high gold prices continued to curb demand for gold jewellery, the China Gold Association said on Monday.
News ID: 11935 Publish Date : 2025/04/29
me-metals: Vale SA (NYSE: VALE), one of the world’s top iron ore producers, dismissed analysts’ predictions that prices of the steelmaking material will tumble below $85 a ton amid a tariff-fueled economic slowdown.
News ID: 11928 Publish Date : 2025/04/27
me-metals: Copper inventories in China saw a record weekly drop, in a sign that demand in the top consumer is holding up well even as anxiety about a burgeoning trade war swirls.
News ID: 11926 Publish Date : 2025/04/27
me-metals: Beijing recently asked South Korean companies not to export products containing China’s rare earth minerals to US defense firms, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Tuesday, citing government and company sources.
News ID: 11915 Publish Date : 2025/04/25
me-metals: Australia’s ruling centre-left Labor government on Thursday pledged an initial investment of A$1.2 billion ($763 million) to set up a strategic reserve of critical minerals as it looks to create a separate supply chain in a market dominated by China.
News ID: 11914 Publish Date : 2025/04/25
me-metals: Copper demand in leading market China has proved remarkably resilient this year despite headwinds from the US-led trade war and the nation’s property crisis, with buyers taking advantage of price slumps to snap up supplies and market metrics pointing to still-solid conditions.
News ID: 11912 Publish Date : 2025/04/24
me-metals: China’s growing glut of alumina pushed exports to their second-highest level ever in March, with shipments expected to remain elevated for several more months.
News ID: 11909 Publish Date : 2025/04/23
me-metals: China’s export controls on three metals important across the defence and chip sectors are keeping shipments at historically low levels despite high prices worldwide as Beijing flexes its control over the minerals supply chain.
News ID: 11900 Publish Date : 2025/04/21
me-metals: Turkish billionaire Robert Yuksel Yildirim is on a $2 billion hunt for nickel mines, betting that the battery metal’s price will rebound and that the West will want those supplies to cut its reliance on China.
News ID: 11899 Publish Date : 2025/04/21
me-metals: A US producer of rare earth metals stopped shipments to China after Beijing placed export controls on similar materials crucial for defense and technology manufacturing.
News ID: 11898 Publish Date : 2025/04/20
me-metals: The Trump administration said on Thursday it would approve a land swap needed for Rio Tinto and BHP to build one of the world’s largest copper mines, despite concerns from Native Americans that it would destroy a site of religious value.
News ID: 11897 Publish Date : 2025/04/20
me-metals: Ontario will cut the time required to approve new mining projects by 50% in an attempt to make the province competitive as Canada faces tariffs and annexation threats from top trading partner the United States, the province’s Premier Doug Ford, said on Thursday.
News ID: 11888 Publish Date : 2025/04/18
me-metals: Ghana has ordered foreigners to exit its gold trading market by the end of the month, a new government body said on Monday, as the West African country looks to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce smuggling.
News ID: 11879 Publish Date : 2025/04/15
me-metals: The People’s Bank of China has allocated fresh gold import quotas for some commercial banks, people familiar with the matter said, as Beijing responds to strong haven demand from institutional and retail investors in the face of an escalating trade war.
News ID: 11878 Publish Date : 2025/04/15
