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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ldo79 who wrote (5165)	1/16/2004 9:16:51 AM
From: russwinter	Respond to of 110194

More goods that the Fed doesn't use. Cobalt prices have now advanced from $10/lb in October to $33/lb now. Although Ben and Al can substitute krypton for cobalt, the rest of us use it for the following. Hopefully, the companies that use it, can still offshore enough labor costs to offset this?: High performance alloys Cemented carbides Batteries Pigments Cobalt soaps Magnets Catalysts Hardfacing and other alloys Other end-uses LME copper warehouses being cleared out at an amazing pace, another 3,200 yesterday, now down to 405,500.