[Ferro-Alloys.com]Ten-day historical volatility for iron ore futures is approaching 100% after averaging just 29% last year, brokerage Freight Investor Services said Wednesday.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company in the world, may soon file for bankruptcy, citing falling global demand and "substantial doubt" about its future.

The upward momentum in industrial metals (DBC) has amazed several analysts. After copper, aluminum, and zinc, iron ore has also joined the party.

Nickel's freefall may have halted as output cuts move the chronically oversupplied market towards deficit, but prices are unlikely to recover sharply unless more loss-making mines close.

Norilsk Nickel (OTCPK:NILSY) believes that current nickel spot prices are not sustainable. The nickel market showed low price elasticity in 2015, with production cuts coming mostly from Chinese nickel pig iron producers and a number of mines operating at neg...

Plans are on track to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies in the second half of 2016, according to a statement Tuesday. Alcoa's so-called downstream segments produce car parts, airplane wings and other high-performance products from the me...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Major production cuts and a substantial draw-down of exchange inventory are needed to trigger a sustained price recovery in nickel, despite a likely market deficit this year, Russia's Norilsk Nickel said Tuesday.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]GLOBAL Ferronickel Holdings Inc. (FNI) said over the weekend it plans to put up a processing plant in the country to add value to the nickel ore it extracts from its mining operations.