Copper leads metals market

“Pick a side,” says The Economist. While the US and China have smoothed over their own trade spat, US strategy has pivoted to pressuring “unfortunate third countries” to do the dirty work of isolating

Copper is used in virtually every area of industry and modern life. The red metal is the third most-used metal globally, behind only steel and aluminium. It is even nicknamed Dr. Copper because demand

Picking through a murky market outlook for the rest of 2025

It’s time for my annual article in which I put the boot into silver. Why now? Because, according to one of my WhatsApp chats, it’s breaking out. Silver is always supposedly breaking out. It never actu

Europe has been a winner while US has been a (relative) loser

Comparisons with other commodities are a useful reality-check