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Breaking Views

• Chinese taxes on Bauxite exports are meaningless

  24 June 2009

  The US and the EU have recently launched a case at the WTO against Chinese export taxes on several industrial raw materials. MBR cannot see economic rationale for Bauxite export taxes being on that list.

• The outlook for copper and the role of the SRB

  19 June 2009

  Our outlook for copper, when allowances are made for further strategic purchases by the SRB, puts copper prices in new record high territory by 2012.

• Analysis of recent nickel production developments

  18 June 2009

  Although a recent flurry of supply disruptions have hit the headlines recently, possibly helping to buoy sentiment and attract speculative buyers, in our view they have not changed the supply-demand outlook.

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