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Copper scrap discounts in the United States continued to be steady in the week to Wednesday November 22, with sources noting little changes week on week ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt has become the first company outside China to achieve a sodium-ion battery with 160 Wh per kg of energy density, the company told Fastmarkets on Tuesday November 21.
As we move to a more sustainable future and electric vehicles start to dominate. Does battery swapping offer a viable option for the future?
This week, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) launched option contracts on lithium hydroxide, which are cash-settled and differ from many of the CME commodity options on futures
An interview with Eman Abdalla, global operations director at Cargill Ocean Transportation
Attracting new talents is one of our industry’s biggest challenges, said Global Win Capital Corporation’s Mike Grimm
A video interview with USDA chief economist, Seth Meyer
A market shift in focus from soy meal to oil is affecting the cost of feed
Fastmarkets experts share lithium forecasts, data and interactive price charts to demonstrate the ever-changing battery materials landscape and make some key predictions for the future of the lithium market
Access the replay and read five key takeaways from our recent webinar ‘Housing at a crossroads: Why near-term pain could be short lived’
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In Hotter Commodities, special correspondent Andrea Hotter cuts to the chase on the biggest stories impacting the natural resources sector, what it means for the markets, and what the key risks and opportunities are.
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