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Rare metals and rare earths
Rare earths of a lanthanum subset, or lanthanides, are applied in production of permanent magnets, in iron and steel industry and non-ferrous metallurgy, in nuclear, electronic, chemical and other industries. |
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Non-metals
Non-metals are chemical elements that form simple elements with no
metal-specific qualities. Non-metals typically include 22 elements: gases - hydrogen,
nitrogen,
oxygen, fluor, chlorine and inert gases; liquids - bromine; solids - boron, carbon,
silicon, phosphorus,
arsenic, sulphur,
selenium, tellurium, iodine, astatine. |
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Quotations or geopolitics: setting priorities |
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Metals and metal products make a second important line of export goods in Russia. It is not enough to have appropriate material and technical base to be successful on the metal market. You would also need a good experience and a great deal of knowledge on how it operates. It is well known, that prices on metals are difficult to predict due to speculative trading of investment funds. Forecasting is not easy in these circumstances.
“Most export or import deals on metals,“ comments a “MarketMetal” manager, “are traded by our company with the help of the London Metal Exchange. Deliveries on contracts are guaranteed with a physical goods delivery from the LME warehouses. We follow technological trends of the market and use fundamental research to get our customers the best conditions.”
It is getting more and more difficult to depend on one and only type of analysis. It is necessary to spot alerts on price charts and trace down economic data releases, important political decisions and other aspects of social context, which can influence metal prices. Volumes of export and import of metals, sales volumes and branch fluctuations, specific metallurgical enterprises are evaluated; growth potential is being long-term defined. Knowledge and understanding of global market dynamics grow through a detailed study of the fundamental market peculiarities and subtleties. This type of analysis proves to be very effective to get the general picture, but fails to define how the market pricing is done. Besides, it is easy to get lost in a great variety of fundamental trends of the market. What helps is to pin down most important market trends instead of generating a comprehensive list of factors, which influence metal exports or imports on the market.
Technological analysis can be treated as a way of reorganisation of decision-bearing fundamental market data into in one and only instrument – the price of goods. But it is not possible to win the competition without considerable knowledge of its nature and specific features. It is also not possible to draw conclusions depending on a latest price chart or analysis without giving it a second thought, or ignoring overall analysis of the metallurgical industry. In the end it is recommended to apply a fundamental analysis together with a technological one to avoid unjustified risks and grasp the proper moment of appearing on the market. back |
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