Articles Tagged "FMC Corporation"

Lithium Investors Recognize Potential Outlook for Energy

Lithium – The most recent Resource Investing News 2011 Network Audience Survey revealed that the majority of respondents that focus on lithium consider energy to offer the greatest potential for investment in the future and a significant number of these respondents have been active in trading this year.

Lithium Industry Q4 Outlook

Lithium – Overall outlook for the lithium industry is dependent upon demand from a number of contributing areas including future adoption and accelerated market penetration within the electric vehicle industry as well as continued global demand for consumer electronics and mobile devices according to some analysts.

Inflationary Costs Impacting Lithium Producer

Lithium – At the beginning of next month or as contracts permit, a large lithium producer will be increasing global pricing for all of its lithium bromide products by 15 percent for all standard and non-standard pricing. The inflation is directly related to an "exponential spike" in the cost of key raw materials over the last few months.

Major Lithium Producer to Transfer Cathode Patents

Lithium – FMC recently announced that Umicore will be acquiring a series of product and process patents covering “high end active cathode materials." The market responded strongly to the news release sending FMC share prices climbing on relatively large trading volumes.

Top Lithium Producers

Lithium – The limited number of publicly traded companies engaged in lithium exploration and production is even more concentrated than the geographical extent of operations; however, the dynamic industry experienced some important developments which grabbed investors attention this year.

Lithium Earnings Season

Lithium – It was a busy week for lithium investors as 2 of the largest lithium producers in the world reported strong first quarter earnings.