Economic Outlook

Q1 Carmageddon for GM, Fiat-Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Mercedes, Mazda…

Posted by Wolf Richter

on Wednesday, 3 April 2019 13:15

The first quarter was not pretty for new-vehicle sales in the US. Deliveries fell 3.2% from Q1 last year, to 3.99 million vehicles. Unless a miracle happens – and miracles are rare in the auto industry – 2019 is going to be the third down-year in a row for the industry, and the fourth down year for GM, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota, and some others, whose peak sales volume occurred in 2015.

At this pace, 2019 deliveries will fall below…Click here for full article.

Nano One Materials optimizing process for commercial production of high-performance lithium-ion batteries

Posted by Proactive Investors

on Tuesday, 2 April 2019 9:21

The company partnered with a major Chinese lithium-ion battery producer in January.

Nano One has developed a proprietary process using lithium carbonate that enables lower cost sources of iron and phosphate than those currently procured by lithium-ion phosphate (LFP) producers.

According to the Vancouver-based company, LFP represents a huge market opportunity, with demand expected to double to over 200,000 tons per year by 2025. LFP is the dominant cathode material in …Click here for full article.

Paper-Thin Profit Margins In Oil Push Traders To LNG

Posted by Haley Zaremba

on Monday, 1 April 2019 14:12

With thin profit margins growing even thinner in the crude oil sector, commodity trading houses have been looking for the next big movement in the energy industry to sink their teeth into, and they’ve found that new horizon in the liquefied natural gas sector. Some of the biggest commodity trading houses around the globe have recently gotten involved in boosting liquefied natural gas and remodeling the energy industry as a whole to fit this new focus.

Among these commodity trading giants are the companies Gunvor Group Ltd., Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd. and Vitol SA, which have all gone from simply trading liquefied natural gas to investing…Click here for full article.

Why Should You Care if Your Advisor Works at a Large Firm

Posted by Andrew Ruhland

on Monday, 1 April 2019 13:53

One Time-Tested Economic Indicator Points to Possibility of Recession

Posted by Stuart Burns

on Friday, 29 March 2019 15:07

Readers of The Telegraph are somewhat inured to dire warnings from the paper’s International Business Editor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. However, his articles are well-researched and in the case of a piece this week, well balanced with arguments for and against his central theme that the bond market, supported by wider data, is showing sufficient warning signs regarding a recession that we should take the prospect seriously.

The piece isn’t alone in calling out the inversion of the U.S. bond market as a…Click here for full article.