The new Range Rover Sport weighs about 400kg less than its predecessor. New fuel-efficiency laws in the US will require cars to be lighter by 2016. This is good news for aluminium, which has taken a beating since the financial crisis. Rising demand helped the world’s biggest producer report a 4 per cent recovery in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in its first quarter from a year earlier yesterday. But Rusal and its peers are hardly shiny investments yet.
新款荒原路華攬勝運動版(Range Rover Sport)比舊款輕400公斤左右。美國新的燃油效率法規要求汽車在2016年前減輕重量。對於金融危機以來受到重挫的鋁業而言,這是個好訊息。得益於鋁需求上升,全球最大的鋁生產商俄羅斯鋁業(Rusal)昨天公佈,一季度稅息折舊及攤銷前利潤(EBITDA)同比增加4%。但俄鋁和其他鋁業股還談不上是金光閃閃的投資對象。