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By Tim Maverick, Commodities Correspondent It’s not often that you can glean investment wisdom from a Senate hearing. But that was certainly the case on May 12 during a hearing on the American Mineral Security Act of 2015. You see, the United States...

LONDON: Investors are buying up physical cobalt anticipating that shortages of the metal, a key component of lithium-ion batteries used in electrical cars, will spur prices to their highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis. Prices for cobalt metal...

Globetrotting Chris Berry, founder of House Mountain Partners, finds most retail and institutional investors sitting on the sidelines waiting to see where the energy sector is headed before jumping back into the game. Game-changing disruptive technologies...

Every once in a while, a previously underappreciated metal rises to prominence. Several factors can cause this to happen: new technology, changing consumer preferences, supply constraints, or skyrocketing demand can all bring an unknown metal to the...

Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different results is commonly defined as madness. While producing a single commodity may not be construed as such, it does fall into the realms of business suicide. And when times are good, the rewards...