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Aluminum Market Research: Our Specialty

At HARBOR intelligence, we refer to aluminum market research as “doing the homework”. We call it that way because we believe that before making any aluminum purchasing decision, one needs to carefully study the best market research possible. We are talking about analyzing and trying to understand the prevailing trends in aluminum output, demand, inventories, costs, speculation, sentiment and macro variables. We are believed that the veracity, exhaustiveness and proper interpretation of these trends will definitely impact the intelligence of the purchasing decision. Doing the proper homework will always deliver better results.

At HARBOR, we feel a passion when trying to generate and provide the best possible aluminum market research to our clients. We understand the need to be focused, exhaustive, analytical, creative and pragmatic. We enjoy doing it and believe it is one of our core competences. We do the job because it is our specialty, and provide as a result the market and price research purchasing managers need to consider before taking decisions.

How do we generate our aluminum market research? It is an everyday matter. We collect and study daily industry statistics and news. We talk to aluminum traders, industry executives, analysts and purchasing managers. We analyze comments by analysts and experts. We study underlying macro economical trends. We categorize our research. We calibrate and run our econometrical models. We seek to proper interpreter properly the signals our research is giving us. We communicate the results to our clients permanently.

Our aluminum market research includes the market views of the best analysts in the industry. We believe any market research is incomplete if it does not include the bottom line analysis of the best ranked aluminum analysts in the world. That is why HARBOR`s market research always includes an overview of the prevailing market views in the market.

> ALuminum Intelligence: Living in Volatile Times…Eventual Upside as a Surprise Too?

16-Dec-08

Prices have fallen like a rock because demand has plummeted (greatly influenced by fear/risk aversion) and has caused the biggest annual visible surplus under record. Prices are trading below average output cash costs ($1,550 per mton or 70 cent/lb) even ...

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> HARBOR Weekly Aluminum Analysis: We haven’t seen the bottom…but conditions are in place for a potential scary “V” type bounce

11-Dec-08

> For now we don’t have signs in place to call for a bottom…but fear/risk aversion continues to fall as measured by the VIX index and this is really significant. Fear reached a record high reading in October of 90 and has fallen now to 53. That is close t...

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> HARBOR Aluminum Alert: China modifies again aluminum export tax regime; prices potentially forming a bottom?

5-Jan-09

A technical bottom in prices could be forming. LME 3M aluminum prices have been range-trading between......

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