Analysis
Is lithium’s brutal comeuppance a buy signal?
Possibly not – it seems a typical commodity boom and bust cycle has set in, and the prudent answer is “not yet”.
Ben PotterSenior writer
Comeuppance can be brutal in financial markets, but rarely as brutal as that handed to investors in battery metals last year.
That’s partly because the huge run-up in lithium prices in 2022 may have led some investors to assume the apparently indispensable commodities were entering a new phase of maturity.
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Ben Potter writes on energy, climate change and innovation, and has been Washington correspondent, opinion editor and companies editor. Connect with Ben on Twitter. Email Ben at bpotter@afr.com
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