Nickel: Strikes Rumble On

摘要

In the run up to the previously 'traditional' slow summer period nickel prices had been bolstered by strong global demand from the stainless steel sector (according to figures from the INSG Western World nickel consumption during the first half of the year rose by 8.6 percent to 531,900 tonnes over the same period in 1999) and by the potential, of strike action at first Inco and then secondly at Falconbridge. In the run-up to the end of labour negotiations at Inco's Sudbury operations, MBR, like many other industry observers watched nickel prices surge from around