The Bloomberg Commodity Index, a basket of 22 raw materials including crude and gold is trading at a 2002 low. It has slumped 14 percent this year. To read the entire [Read more...]

What has taken senior iron ore – steel industry leadership so long to adjust their strategic plans? What are rail and port companies that provide logistics services to [Read more...]

Published by Bloomberg, Jul 20, 2015 Oil has been reeling for about a year; now gold is getting slammed— Commodities are at a 13-year low. How will this affect your [Read more...]

The Big Three iron ore producers havebbeen particularly hard hit. World number one BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP) fell again in New York, bringing its losses since Friday to more [Read more...]

July 10 (Reuters) – Hit hard by the accelerated downturn in metal prices, most global mining companies preparing to report results are likely to announce another round [Read more...]

A Bloomberg report on Jul 8, 2015 The analysis of the demand for port and rail freight always begins with an examination of the market supply/demand at the buyers level. [Read more...]

From the Financial Times news report comes this upbeat news from Mongolia. The headline: Is this just more public relations political hype? Another “junk” rated [Read more...]

These news reports about iron ore present an open economic question as some mining companies use the news media to signal “Market Supply” changes to their [Read more...]

This railway news report is focused on the expected physical construction of new railway. That is the SUPPLY side story. The rest of the technical story will be found in the [Read more...]

Reuters data http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL3N0Z823E20150622?irpc=932 China’s imports of coking coal fell 24.2% to 14.7 million tonnes in the first four months [Read more...]