Does news that U.S. will let Russia’s big aluminum producer avoid sanctions remove this wild card from commodities and stock markets?
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said today that Russian metals giant Rusal, could get sanctions lifted if Putin-connected oligarch Oleg Deripaska relinquished control. The Treasury also gave Rusal a five month extension as it considered Rusal’s appeal of the sanctions. Commodity prices–especially aluminum–fell on the news.
Alocoa starts earnings season with bad news from commodities
Neither Alcoa nor aluminum set the direction of the market these days, but investors and traders looking for a sustainable turn in commodity demand and prices didn’t get anything to cheer about when the company announced first quarter earnings after the market closed yesterday, April 11.
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