News Archive

Every report the desk has filed, searchable by full text, topic, format, symbol and date range.

Filtering:SI=F

Metals Cycle Delivers: KGHM Profit Jumps on Copper as Silver Deficit Narrative Builds

Poland's KGHM posts higher second-quarter earnings on firm copper pricing while structural silver supply shortfalls point to operating leverage for miners; Cerrado Gold lifts output 35% but concedes cost inflation

KGHM reported stronger Q2 profit driven by robust copper prices, validating the industrial-metals thesis. Analysts point to a persistent silver supply-demand deficit as the next leg for precious metals producers, while Cerrado Gold's 35% production increase alongside rising costs illustrates the sector's central tension between volume growth and unit-cost discipline.

SPECIAL REPORTBULLISH

Diesel Squeeze Threatens Fresh Inflation Shock Across US Supply Chains

Soaring distillate prices are propagating through freight, agriculture and construction costs, delivering an unwelcome cost-push impulse ahead of November's midterm elections

A sharp rise in US diesel prices is rippling through the real economy, raising the risk of a renewed inflation impulse at a moment when bond markets are already demanding higher compensation for duration and policy risk.

BREAKING STORYBEARISH

Silver Slide Hands Pandora an Unexpected Margin Tailwind

A sharp retracement in the silver price cuts directly into the input cost base of the world's largest jewellery producer by volume, opening a gross-margin box the market had priced as a headwind.

Falling silver prices are reversing one of the most acute cost pressures on Pandora, whose product mix is heavily weighted to sterling silver. The move illustrates how commodity volatility is now a first-order driver of consumer-discretionary earnings revisions rather than a background variable.

BREAKING STORYBULLISH
Most covered symbols

Each chip opens the Research terminal for that symbol, where its archive coverage is listed alongside the fundamentals.