Market & Metals

Scrap Metal Market: April 2016

Scrap Metal Market Trends Scrap metal prices for crushed autobodies have slightly increased 8.57% over the past month (see March 2016 Scrap Metal Market Watch), but an overall 9.66% decline over the past year. Over the past month, the automotive industry has shown continued signs of devaluation. The Wall Street Journal reported the scrap metal

WSJ: In Scrap-Metal Market, Buyers Have to Tell Darth From Vader

From: WSJ: In Scrap-Metal Market, Buyers Have to Tell Darth From Vader By: John W. Miller When Randy Goodman calls a customer in China, the 51-year-old scrap trader sometimes asks: Do you want Elmo, Shelmo or Zorba? The world’s $100 billion trade in junked cars, refrigerators and other metallic goods hinges on 100 or so short,

Success at AFP 2016

Thanks to all those who visited us at the Association of Fundraising Professionals 2016 Conference! We’re excited to continue the conversation following AFP, and to celebrate returning over $100 million to our charity partners. This year offered an exciting opportunity to prominently feature the UNICEF Civil Society program at our AFP booth. Visitors were able

Why I Switched to MariaDB and Haven’t Looked Back

As a longtime Oracle user, I always felt that MySql was in “catch up” mode. It only developed ACID-compliant transactions and Declarative Referential Integrity begrudgingly, after InnoDB came along, and even then was still missing “big” database features like point in time recovery. Still at some point early in the new millennium, MySql matured enough

WSJ: Scrap-metal sector is latest victim of commodities bust

From: Scrap-metal sector is latest victim of commodities bust By: John W. Miller PITTSBURGH—Cars are piling up at junkyards across the U.S., as the commodities bust that has already bruised mining and metals companies from Ohio to Australia ripples through another sector: scrap. As prices for steel, iron ore and other commodities have dropped because of a demand

Market & Metals

Scrap Metal Market Watch: 1st Quarter 2016

Scrap Metal Market Watch graph from first quarter 2013 to first quarter 2016 Over last quarter, scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies declined 7.14%. Over Q1 2015, scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies declined 51.06%. Over Q1 2014, scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies declined 64.51%. Over Q1 2013, scrap metal prices

Market & Metals

Scrap Metal Market Watch: March 2016

Scrap Metal Market Trends Scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies have increased. We’ve seen an increase of 2.94% over the past month, a decline of 46.14% over the past year, and a decline of 62.69% over the past two years. This trend may be observed below:   Chart | Scrap Metal Market Trends

Motor for your Mission

No matter how much we may care about curing disease, eliminating poverty or ending homelessness, if there are no funds, no good work will be done. Charitable organizations know the only way to tackle the massive issues that plague the world today is to scale up. The organization must be big enough, be well known

WSJ: Anglo’s CEO Predicts Deepening Metals Slump

From: Anglo’s CEO Predicts Deepening Metals Slump (WSJ) By: Scott Patterson & Alex MacDonald Anglo American PLC Chief Executive Mark Cutifani doesn’t think so, saying Monday that 2016 is set to be even more difficult for mining companies and commodity markets than 2015. To put that in perspective, copper and iron-ore prices fell 25% and

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ARS: Data Security

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