Cobalt is used in a wide variety of industrial applications, with lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems as the largest demand segment. As an important battery ...

Glencore (LSE:GLEN) has agreed a cobalt supply deal with the US government that taps what is described as the last major private cobalt stockpile held by trader Rami Weisfisch. The agreement is ...

Cobalt stock prices on China's Wuxi Exchange plummeted late in January. Traders attribute the fall to shortages of the material used in electric vehicle batteries in the world's largest consumer. More ...

The cobalt market entered 2025 under pressure from a prolonged supply glut, but the balance shifted sharply as the year unfolded, due almost entirely to intervention from the Democratic Republic of ...

China’s dominance of critical mineral supply chains is not as absolute as it may appear. Cobalt is a case in point. China ...

Cobalt metal prices have trended steadily higher since September of last year, entering 2026 at US$56,414 per metric ton and touching highs unseen since July 2022. The cobalt market's dramatic ...

That vulnerability has been exposed by the export controls imposed by the Democratic Republic of Congo, the largest source of cobalt intermediate products for Chinese processors. Shipments to China ...