RE:RE:Junior Stock Review - Base Metal Reflections and Outlookspotluck1 wrote: Bullish on Nickel and owns FPX, good to read the 'experts' are in on this. If Nickel prices can break out and reach above $8/lb as the article hopes, Decar will be very tempting, and hopefully any run up of nickel price will be timed well with positive news on the PEA update.
But looking at LME inventories over the last 6 months, they have dropped from 280kT to 210kT, down 25%. In the same period the price of Nickel has dropped from $7/lb to $5/lb, down 28%. (All those numbers are approximate for illustrative purposes)
Any thoughts on why the price is going down as inventories decrease, and demand due to EV revolution increase? Simple as Trump's trade war?
I put it down to competitive market manipulation. The same motivation that caused Tsingshan to brazenly lie recently about their ability to place new HPAL production online very quickly and at a small fraction of the true CAPEX cost. This sort of price manipulation will remain possible until stock levels are very low.