Six potential bidders, including Dutch commodity trader Trafigura and Hong Kong-listed MMG Ltd, are looking at the books of BHP Billiton's Australian nickel unit, the Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday, without saying where it got the information.

Spot Brand has been growing, adding a few more sales reps and bringing on Andy Emanual to help design and build their next generation of bikes. Emanual comes from five years under Paul Turner at Maverick.

Indian smartphone makers, in recent times, have arrived in huge numbers. We are not necessarily stuck in those days when a choice for a handset was usually associated with the company that's from abroad.

Researchers have developed new molten air rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles which have a significantly higher storage capacity than lithium batteries.

Platts reported that today some Chinese traders suspended offers for spot molybdenum oxide in Asia following a low deal. They are waiting for signs of improvement.

As the largest importer of silicon metal in the world, Germany imoported 218.4 thousands of silicon metal in 2013

Exports of Chinese Cr metal surged to 1,080 mt, registering quadruple increase form last month. Surges occurred in exports to Japan, US and South Korea in May 2014. The reason was top exporter of Cr Metal-Russia greatly reduced exports due to political issue a...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Chinese FeV50 was offered at RMB78,000-79,000/mt(USD12,786-12,950/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. Steel mills made intensive tenders in late June, but bids were rather low as they earned limited profit.