Simon Collins News
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The Big Four accounting firms’ dominance over corporate audits in Britain will probably lead to higher prices and lower quality, and prevent clients from meeting shareholders’ demands, a regulator said.
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Copper supplies will lag demand for at least the next two years, with prices peaking over $10,000 a metric ton in the second quarter next year, according to Trafigura Beheer BV, which considers itself the world’s second- largest trader of industrial metals.
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Aluminum traders may be storing more metal outside warehouses monitored by the London Metal Exchange “so it’s not as apparent as it could be” before the introduction of an exchange-traded fund in the metal, according to Simon Collins , head of refined metals at Trafigura Beheer BV in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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The following are the top stories on metals, agriculture and shipping.
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Iron-ore swap volumes cleared by SGX Asia Clear dropped 9.2 percent in October from a record 17.7 million metric tons in the previous month because of a holiday in China and as prices stabilized.
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Commodities trader Trafigura Beheer BV is “concerned” about the possible sale of the London Metal Exchange, the world’s biggest metals bourse, as it may mean changes to its operations.
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Trafigura Beheer BV, the second- largest industrial metals trader, said its plan to buy an 8 percent stake in Russia’s OAO GMK Norilsk Nickel will give it a “fast-track expansion” in accessing output of the metal.
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