Tag: raw materials
Opec plus surprises markets – oil price could rise towards $100
oil production According to one analyst, the cut in oil production could cause the price of oil to rise by $10 a barrel. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The production cuts by…
Oil prices rise sharply after OPEC+ announced production cuts
oil production According to one analyst, the cut in oil production could cause the price of oil to rise by $10 a barrel. (Photo: dpa) Dubai Oil prices reacted to…
Oil prices rise sharply after OPEC+ announced production cuts
oil production According to one analyst, the cut in oil production could cause the price of oil to rise by $10 a barrel. (Photo: dpa) Dubai Oil prices reacted to…
Oil prices rise sharply after OPEC+ announced production cuts
oil production According to one analyst, the cut in oil production could cause the price of oil to rise by $10 a barrel. (Photo: dpa) Dubai Oil prices reacted to…
The nickel market is slowly returning to normal
Traders at the London Metal Exchange After the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, market participants worried about supply bottlenecks for nickel. The prices then shot up.…
Hope for billions in funding for German car manufacturers: US government plans raw material agreement
Completed electric cars are waiting to be transported Previously, European electric cars would have been excluded from US subsidies. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to Handelsblatt information, European car and battery…
Germany and Japan move together
Olaf Scholz with Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan The Chancellor wants to take relations with Japan to a new level. (Photo: dpa) Germany and Japan want to work more…
Tremors in the markets – The editor-in-chief’s review
The fact is: The situation for European banks differs from that in the US (the threatening situation of Credit Suisse is more of a special case). And that is also…
Why Scholz takes Japan as a role model
Berlin / Tokyo With half his cabinet, Olaf Scholz (SPD) is leaving for a weekend trip to Tokyo on Friday. With six cabinet colleagues in tow, the Chancellor is traveling…
Volkswagen builds battery cell plant in Canada
Salzgitter Europe’s largest carmaker Volkswagen is building its next battery cell plant in North America, more precisely in Canada. The group and VW’s battery subsidiary PowerCo announced this on Monday…
Economics Minister Habeck wants to tie Brazil more closely to Germany
Salvador It is the longest trip abroad to date by Economics Minister Robert Habeck. Together with Cem Özdemir, the Green Minister for Agriculture and Food, Habeck will be on the…
Travel fever in Brussels and Berlin – the editor-in-chief’s review
welcome back Regarding my look at the most important topics of the past week: And with that straight to Brussels, where the travel bug broke out. A few days ago,…
California plans its “Lithium Valley”
Research on lithium-ion accumulators The raw material is essential for the tech industry. (Photo: imago images/Rupert Oberhäuser) san francisco A basic study is making America euphoric: According to a recently…
How the EU wants to boost the production of lithium & co
lithium source According to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), the import quota is 100 percent for 14 of the 27 critical raw materials. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty…
Dependence on China – diversification is not a panacea
With a view to the federal government’s raw materials strategy, the BDI recently called for Germany and Europe to “diversify and become more independent”. The reason for this demand can…
Cooperation instead of development aid – How Europe and Africa could benefit from the energy transition
Berlin They are the ingredients of the energy transition: lithium, cobalt, manganese. Cell phones won’t work and electric cars won’t drive without these minerals. A large part of these mineral…
Disappointment: Has the turning point failed?
Good morning dear readers, It is exactly one year ago today that Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) gave a historic speech in which he outlined Germany’s response to the Russian…
Cooperation instead of development aid – How Europe and Africa could benefit from the energy transition
Berlin They are the ingredients of the energy transition: lithium, cobalt, manganese. Cell phones won’t work and electric cars won’t drive without these minerals. A large part of these mineral…
War in Ukraine: stocks, gold, oil – consequences for the markets after a year of war
Stock traders on February 24, 2022 at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange The Russian attack on Ukraine sent stock markets around the world plummeting that day. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt When Russian…
No all-clear for the industry
mine in South Africa A boom in demand meets a limited supply – this drives up commodity prices. (Photo: mauritius images / Sunshine Seeds / Alamy) Zurich, Dusseldorf High prices…