Thanks to Condor for these Ni charts:
kitcometals.com
Note the 5-year chart at the bottom, with the enormous spike and decline in LME inventory over the last year.
(Ni price has fallen back a bit from its high, BTW)
How about "to boot":
"This has nothing to do with footwear. The boot on your foot comes from the Old French bote. In to boot however, it comes from the entirely different source of the Old English bot, meaning 'advantage or good', which in turn came from the Germanic root bat, meaning 'good and useful', which was also the source of our modern better and best. This sense of boot as 'something good' led to its use, at various points, to mean 'a remedy', 'a mending', 'compensation for wrongs', and even 'expiation of sins'. There was even a right of boot, meaning the custom of permitting a tenant to repair his house with lumber from his landlord's forest. And to boot was to do a good deed or render a favour to someone.
...Of all these senses, however, only our modern to boot as meaning 'in addition', which first appeared around A.D. 1000, still survives in common usage today."
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