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Espionage Tales And Long Positions

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Long tin positions are a major bugbear for the tin industry. Committee members at the London Metal Exchange are angry at the LME's lack of action on the large scale long tin positions. Market concerns centre on the September-December 2009 contracts and the amount of available metal stored in LME tin inventories, after a large number of positions were built up last week. And in other spy tales, an Australian executive with mining giant Rio Tinto was being held in China as a suspected spy.

Tin prices fell 25% in third quarter

Monday, October 13, 2008

The base metals are down for the year, with tin and nickel suffering the most. Each has lost more than 25% in the last quarter. After Congress voted down the $700 billion bailout plan, tin prices hit their weakest level since September 18, dropping 6.3% to $16,680 on the LME.

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