News & Notes

While the collapse in crude oil prices has captured most of the headlines in the U.S., the price of iron ore has suffered a decline of roughly equal magnitude over the past year. That’s no small thing to Australia, which is the world’s largest exporter of the base metal, or… Read More

Until recently, copper had been one of the few relative bright spots amid the global commodities sell-off. But “relative” is the key word here.After all, copper already suffered a sharp decline in 2011, falling as much as 33.7% from its all-time high of $10,160 per metric ton to that year’s… Read More