Metal & Oil & Gas News –

The commodity price boom that began after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 has turned to bust. Copper prices are down 41 percent from their 2011 peak and probably have a lot further to go. So why are ...

Peru’s metallic mineral production of copper, silver, tin and molybdenum fell in October, while gold, zinc, lead, iron ore, tungsten and cadmium rose. The energy and mines ministry said that copper output dropped 1.8% to 120,169 tonnes on declining production ...

Nearly half of Chinese wire and cable producers are bearish towards copper prices in the near term. The US dollar continues to advance following upbeat data from the US. Meanwhile, the euro zone and China still suffer from anemic growth. ...