Kate is FT AV’s Asia Correspondent. She joined FT Alphaville in mid-2011 after carrying out various roles in the FT’s London office since 2005: interactive editor, companies reporter, and founding editor of the FT’s Energy Source blog.
Learn moreRemember how China was being buried alive in copper a few months ago? The stuff was piling up in carparks? Now it’s even WORSE.
Judy Zhu and Han Pin Hsi, the Standard Chartered analysts who brought us the carpark images back in April, have been on another fact-finding mission, this time beginning in Waigaoqiao where they found this: Read more
Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreMichael Robinson over at the BBC’s World Service has been investigating high global commodity prices in a series entitled Bubble Trouble?
In this week’s episode Robinson looks at the copper market and in particular the scale of potential copper shenanigans that may or may not be going on in the market. Read more
Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreYikes. This is hot off the wire on Tuesday:
RTRS-UK GOVT COMMITTEE SAYS IT BRINGS ACTIVITIES OF LARGE DEALERS ON LONDON METAL EXCHANGE TO ATTENTION OF OFFICE OF FAIR TRADING Read more
Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreSean Corrigan at Diapason Commodities sends us this chart on Friday:
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 21 2013 16:35 |
6,804 | +48.24 | +0.7% | 6,804 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 21 2013 17:15 |
1,253 | +1.13 | +0.1% | 1,253 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 21 2013 05:00 |
1,669 | +2.87 | +0.2% | 1,675 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 22 2013 00:19 |
1.29 | 0.00 | +0.1% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 22 2013 05:39 |
103.56 | -0.35 | -0.3% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 21 2013 23:15 |
1,378 | 0.00 | 0.00% | 1,795 |
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