Amazon’s swan dive into grocery will do more than transform food retail, it will transform the entire food value chain. Let’s look at the likely impacts specific to the meat sector.
Even the laws of supply & demand agree that one of the stars of the meat industry (life?) is bacon. The price of pork bellies may have been rising for some time but according to the Wall Street...
Introduction: Market Risk at Commodities-Driven Companies When an investor buys a stock, she is taking a position, placing a bet on the stock’s value going up so that she can sell it later for a...
Millennials, those born between 1981 and 1997, make up the largest living generation in the United States, numbering 74.4 million. Many readers in the meat industry will be surprised to learn that...
At the Mine Insider we are always sceptical about forecasts of minerals and mining equity prices - even our own! But we are now seeing more signs supporting our call of 11 January 2016 when The...
This week Mine Insider focuses on dividend payment policies of mining companies and in particular the commitments of some to progressive dividends. Both Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have recently...
Warren Buffett aims to invest in real businesses, and he suggests we avoid those that offer ‘commodity-type returns’. But at Mine Insider, we are not so sure we should take this as a rigid rule...
For many of us, the New Year means high street sales – and in mining it seems everything is for sale at bargain basement prices. 2015 saw unexpected falls in metal prices and continual bad...
