Article: Softer metal prices and global jitters condemn market to four-week low.(Business Report)

Article: Scrap metal prices falling Some materials'; cost ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Scrap metal prices have plummeted, resulting in pain ... in the United States or overseas, metal prices will react accordingly, said Bob ... further fueled the decline in scrap metal prices as hedge fund managers pull out of ...

Article: Base metal prices likely to face downward pressure ...
China Business News;  February 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Base metal prices likely to face downward ... The increase in base metal prices and lower stockpiles on ... snowstorms drove up metal prices, and now it's time ... Futures Exchange soared 13 percent from Jan. 28 to close ...

Article: Metal prices to decline by 20 pct to 30 pct in 2008 ...
China Business News;  January 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Metal prices to decline ... between 20 percent and 30 percent ... less than 10 percent. If the U ... prices and metal prices suggests that ... sentiment on metal prices, Hickson said ... as high as 8 percent per annum since ...

Article: Mining industry may top $2 billion in exploration and ...
Alaska Business Monthly;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... spending increasing 40 percent to $100.9 million ... spending increasing 60 percent to $347 million and ... bolstered by strong metal prices and increased exploration ... in mid-May. "If metal prices stay consistent with ... content, accounts for 60 percent of Alaska's mining ...

Article: Falling metal prices lead to a retreat on ...
The Star (South Africa);  February 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... incentive now that metal prices are low. South ... at a time when metal prices were collapsing ... would shrink by 30 percent to about $400 ... It scrapped a 25 percent windfall tax introduced ... automatically as metal prices rise or fall would ...

Article: Surging scrap metal prices begin to decline.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  January 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... has dropped 21 percent from $249 a ton ... publication that tracks metal prices. The price is down nearly 35 percent from last March ... changes in new-metal prices. "The price of ... represents about 60 percent of the cost, said ...

Article: Cycles in metal prices
Mining Engineering;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... duration of these cycles for a variety of metal prices. Given some idea of how long and severe ... timing or duration of the fluctuations in metal prices, but it also briefly examines the amplitude ... contractions. If it was found that changes in metal prices are random, then what ...