Matthieu Favas

With roots in the wine industry, I now lead the commodities coverage at The Economist, having previously covered banking, crypto, fintech and private equity (among other topics). I also write about the intersection of finance and geopolitics, notably economic sanctions. Sometimes I edit the Finance & Economics section, too. And sometimes I write about wine. 

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The Economist • 21st September 2023

Rod stewards

Conflicts and resurgent demand combine to send uranium prices soaring
The Economist • 11th September 2023

Keep digging

How to avoid a 6.5bn-tonne green-metals crunch
The Economist • 10th August 2023

Cash and quarry

How Latin America could be a commodities superpower
The Economist • 8th August 2023

Raw potential

A growing and greening world needs Latin America’s commodities
The Economist • 13th July 2023

Mission-critical

A dozen obscure minerals are key to Western armies. China largely controls their supply
The Economist • 6th July 2023

Copper comes a cropper

The king of transition metals is unexpectedly getting cheaper
The Economist • 20th April 2023

Ahead of the battery pack

Why crashing lithium prices will not make electric cars cheaper
The Economist • 23rd March 2023

The battle for Europe’s economic soul

Policymakers in Brussels ready their response to America’s protectionism (with Christian Odendahl)
The Economist • 16th February 2023

Bolt from the blue

Cobalt, a crucial battery material, is suddenly superabundant
The Economist • 13th February 2023

Green shoots

War and subsidies have turbocharged the energy transition
The Economist • 14th August 2022

Cell-side analysis

Could the EV boom run out of juice before it really gets going?
The Economist • 7th July 2022

Helter skelter

Do cheaper commodities herald a recession?
The Economist • 24th March 2022

Full metal jackpot

The transition to clean energy will mint new commodity superpowers
The Economist • 17th March 2022

When China met the free market

A nickel-trading fiasco raises three big questions (with Henry Tricks)
The Economist • 10th March 2022

Barrelled over

Can the world cope without Russia’s huge commodity stash?
The Economist • 26th January 2022

Material impact

Commodity traders are bracing for war in Ukraine (with Vijay Vaitheeswaran)
The Economist • 13th January 2022

Atom and abroad

The Kazakh crisis is only one threat hanging over the uranium market
The Economist • 30th September 2021

Supermayhem

Making sense of the chaos in commodity markets
The Economist • 6th December 2018

Uranium's u-turn

Buying nuclear fuel is back in fashion
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Matthieu Favas