Jason Sappor is a Commodity Analyst in the Metals and Mining Research Team at S&P Global Market Intelligence.Full Bio
Jason Sappor is a Commodity Analyst in the Metals and Mining Research Team at S&P Global Market Intelligence. His primary focus is the nickel market, which includes conducting nickel supply and demand analysis, publishing the monthly Nickel Commodity Briefing Service report and writing timely research articles.
Jason has co-authored articles on the impact of COVID-19 on the industrial metals, and presented the Research Team’s latest metals forecasts in our April webinar discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the metals market.
Jason holds an MSc in Applicable Mathematics and a BSc in Mathematics and Economics, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
What do UK, US sanctions on Russia-origin metal mean for global nickel mark
On April 12, the US and UK governments imposed sanctions on Russia-origin metals for the country's invasion of Ukraine. To comply with the sanctions, the London Metal Exchange (LME) announced a ban on the delivery of Russia-origin nickel, aluminum and copper produced on or after April 13 into its warehouses. According to our estimates, Russia is the world's second-largest produ...
Nickel CBS August 2023 – Prices drop; China's refined nickel capacity expan
S&P Global Market Intelligence's Pipeline Activity Index (PAI) collapsed in June, dropping 23% to 86 from 111 in May. This was the lowest reading in three years. While the gold PAI slipped from 134 to 125 in June, the base/other metals PAI drove the monthly decrease, dropping 39% to only 58. Of the metrics used in our PAI, positive milestones, initial resource announcements and...
Nickel Market Dynamics in the Post-LME Short Squeeze Era
Hear from Jason Sappor, Senior Analyst, Metals & Mining Research of S&P Global Commodity Insights at his presentation for the 13th International Advanced Automative Battery Conference 2023, hosted by AABC Europe (19-22 June 2023).
