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The lithium market recovers its poise, as demand soars and prices rise
Lithium prices hit a cyclical low in 2020, driven by low capital intensity hard rock projects in Australia springing up and overwhelming the market. However, in recent months, lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide prices have been surging higher. Battery grade and technical grade lithium carbonate prices began to rally strongly as Chinese buyers paid up, […]
What Investment Strategies Are Being Used By People With Trillions of Dollar Are Buying During Covid-19
Hotels, pipelines, convenience stores and automaker bonds – are among the assets being bought by some of the world’s biggest asset managers as they look for value investment strategies in a world thrown into turmoil by the coronavirus pandemic. These folk need to (and can afford to take a long-term view) on the their decisions. […]
Revolutionary Battery Technology Mooted Very Soon
You’re probably already interested in the potential of electric cars. But maybe you also have the usual concerns about actually buying one: the price, the range, and worries about where you are going to charge the thing and how long you’ll be stuck there. Yet the market certainly seems to reckon they are the future. […]
Hammond under fire for ‘wholly ill-conceived QROPS’ charge
Hammond under fire for ‘wholly ill-conceived QROPS’ charge The Treasury announced it would impose a 25% tax charge on pension transfers to QROPS pension schemes from the day after the Budget (9 March). Officials said the charge was “targeted at those seeking to reduce the tax payable by moving their pension wealth to another jurisdiction”. […]
This is the pension problem and it should be headline news!
A recent article published by the BBC and written by Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies says it all. The issue is not being given enough exposure. I believe because those in power e.g. in governments and controlling the media (and this is as close as I come to a rant!) don’t […]
Brexit Aftermath
What Lies Ahead in the Medium Term Future for UK The recent Brexit vote does not herald the end of the world, and in all probability the sell-off in risk assets and sterling will soon be partially reversed as the U.K government and euro zone leaders make calming statements about the need to work […]