“Blink and you’ll miss it” is an old quip about fast moving events which has rarely been more true than today with war, inflation, and commodity market turmoil joined this week by the first...

The great nickel squeeze, which is said to have cost a Chinese billionaire $US5 billion, was a lot more than a flawed punt. It was a perfect example of the theme which has returned...

Thermal coal trading at an all-time high of US$435 a tonne tells you everything about the commodity boom unleashed by Russia’s war with Ukraine, and the Chinese Government’s very commercial response summed up as:...

Shares down. Commodities up. At its simplest that’s what happened on markets this week as multiple conflicting signals, ranging from war in Ukraine to rising U.S. interest rates, sparked increased investor anxiety.

Ukraine is not the only “powder keg” at risk of exploding. The same is being said of two CLANC metals, nickel and aluminium, where prices are poised to blow-up.

If you have ever wondered what the early stages of a commodities boom looks like, consider three comments made this week... “We’re out of everything.” - Jeff Currie, head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs. “No...

Rare earths and other critical metals moved back into focus this week thanks to Australian Government project funding offers but it was gold which really caught the eye of investors as reports surfaced of...

Red ink ruled the stock market this week, as every investor knows, but there was a solitary flash of green which could be a pointer to what comes after the volatile shake-out underway across...

Records tumbled across the resources sector this week led by higher prices for nickel, tin, lithium, oil, and coal, but the most significant financial event occurred in Germany where the all-important 10-year government bond...