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22 Apr 2021
Keith Neumeyer - Unpredictable Retail Demand Will Break Paper vs Physical Silver Market
SBTV spoke with Keith Neumeyer, founder and CEO of First Majestic Silver. Keith believes retail silver buying is the blindspot that will catch banks by surprise and break the paper versus physical leverage in the silver market.
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20 Apr 2021
Trafigura Bets on Green-Nickel Squeeze in Defiance of China Cure
(Read more)[Bloomberg] The Goro deal (in New Caledonia) shows Trafigura (the biggest metals trader after Glencore Plc) and Tesla don’t see Tsingshan’s new processing method as a panacea for meeting surging demand for nickel used in the batteries needed to help wean the world off fossil fuels.
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20 Apr 2021
Nio, Li Auto, Xpeng: What’s Driving The Sell Off In Chinese EV Stocks
(Read more)[Forbes]: So what’s driving the recent sell-off? Firstly, investors are likely concerned that the global semiconductor shortage...is weighing in...Secondly, competition in the Chinese EV space is also mounting with large Chinese automakers...higher competition will put pressure on the likes of Nio, Xpeng, and Li Auto.
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20 Apr 2021
10 Mins with Chris Vermeulen: Opportunities Abound as the Commodities Super Cycle is Just Getting Started
We are joined on Metal Money by Chris Vermeulen, founder of Technical Traders Ltd. We discuss why gold and silver are not out of the woods and how the early stage of the commodities supercycle now is reminiscent of the last cycle which began in 2003.
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19 Apr 2021
Johnson Matthey, FMG to build Finland EV materials plant
(Read more)[Reuters]: 'JMatthey: "The developments with Nornickel and SQM, in conjunction with the investment by Finnish Minerals Group, form an important part of the sustainable supply chain for our cathode materials plants in both Finland and Poland..."...The plant will be part of an EV battery cluster in Finland...'
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16 Apr 2021
GM and LG to spend $2.3 billion on second EV battery plant in U.S.
(Read more)[CNBC] “The addition of our second all-new Ultium battery cell plant in the U.S. with our joint venture partner LG Energy Solution is another major step in our transition to an all-electric future,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in a release.
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15 Apr 2021
Electric vehicles may be 'the biggest change in the 100-year plus history' of the auto industry: UC Berkley Prof
(Read more)“This is probably the biggest change in the 100-plus-year history of the industry,” Harley Shaiken, auto expert and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told Yahoo Finance Live.
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15 Apr 2021
Lawrence Reed - Modern Parallels to the Fall of Rome
SBTV spoke with Lawrence Reed, President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), about the modern parallels we are witnessing today to the fall of the Roman empire.
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14 Apr 2021
Skyrocketing metal prices threaten to hinder EV affordability
(Read more)[Bloomberg]: A surge in demand for EVs is sending the price of (base metals) soaring, threatening to slow the push toward making cheaper batteries that are key to more widespread adoption.
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14 Apr 2021
Chinese Auto Giant Geely Explores SPAC Deals
(Read more)[WSJ]: Geely (and its Swedish subsidiary Polestar) are discussing the pros and cons of Polestar going public by merging it with a SPAC and boosting its valuation sharply...Geely...begun overhauling its strategy in recognition that it has fallen behind in the transition to EVs...