The history always repeats itself but the same kind of events could happen in different countries in different times. Today President of Venezuela to a large extent is realizing the first Soviet decrees. Artem Zverev’s column on Tuesdays.

The Beijing Olympics have sharply reduced copper demand in top consumer China

Rusmet reports:At the market of iron-ore raw materials of Russia, growth of volumes of internal consumption , extraction and import continues.

In July metallurgical enterprises of Russia again broke their own record on consumption of ferrous scrap

Stainless steel demand in China will stay weak in September 2008

In 2008, a traditional dip in consumption has been magnified by external influences.

Mining giant BHP Billiton's $128 billion bid for rival Rio Tinto could raise competition issues in iron ore, Australia's antitrust regulator said on Friday

Nippon Steel and JFE Holdings are bidding together with a Japanese trading house for CSN’s Namisa iron ore unit, hoping to secure self-sufficiency for the steelmakers

The UAE and its partners in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) need to set up more projects to expand their steel and other building materials industries to bring down soaring prices