Key data from the pricing sessions in London and Shanghai on Friday September 21. ...Read More
Cobalt prices made steady gains in the spot market last week, supported by a continuous stream of post-summer consumer purchases. Metal Bulletin assessed low-grade cobalt prices at $33.50-34.25 per lb on Friday September 21, stable compared with the midweek assessment, and up from $33.35-34.10 per lb a week earlier. High-grade cobalt prices ended last week at $33.60-34.50 per lb, in-ware...Read More
Antimony prices in China were firm last week on good domestic and overseas demand as well as improved sentiment after the minor metal was left of the latest US tariff list. Meanwhile, European grade II prices fell last week while trioxide grade prices remained stable. Metal Bulletin assessed Chinese MMTA standard grade II delivered, duty-paid antimony prices at 52,500-53,000 yuan ($7,664- 7,7...Read More
Gaining 82 points on the day resulted in the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at a new record high of 26,743.50. This is the second consecutive day in which the Dow traded to a new all-time high. This strong risk-on market sentiment coupled with dollar strength put tremendous downside pressure on gold pricing today. Gold futures basis the most active (December 2018) Comex contract closed down...Read More
TORONTO (Reuters) - Long-time gold bull John Paulson followed through on Friday on a pledge made last year to team up with other gold investors in an effort to work with management of companies in the gold sector to improve returns, according to the group, called the Shareholders Gold Council.The coalition, launched by Paulson's U.S. hedge fund Paulson & Co, will issue analyst reports and enga...Read More
(Kitco News) - In what has been a familiar theme for the gold market, its next trend could be determined in a single day next week, depending on what the Federal Reserve says on future monetary policy.The gold market has been stuck in neutral around the critical psychological level at $1,200 an ounce for the last five weeks ahead of an all-but-guaranteed 25 basis-point interest rate hike. Comex De...Read More
(Kitco News) - Wall Street and Main Street both look for gold prices to rise next week, based on the weekly Kitco News gold survey.The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting is widely expected to hike interest rates another 25 basis points next week. But that hasn’t deterred analysts, who suggest this is already factored into prices.Eighteen market professionals took part in the Wall Str...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold prices are solidly lower and back below the key $1,200.00 level in late-morning action Friday. The yellow metal added to early losses when the U.S. dollar index moved up to its session high and is presently holding decent gains. Scant risk aversion in the marketplace and an overall bearish chart posture are bearish elements that continue to work against gold. December gold was...Read More
(Kitco News) - The gold market is off its daily lows but remains under pressure following preliminary mixed manufacturing and service sector sentiment data.Friday, research firm IHS Markit said in its latest flash U.S. manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index for September dropped to a reading of 52.9 compared to August's reading of 54.7. Consensus forecasts showed economists were forecasting a rea...Read More
(Kitco News) - Goldman Sachs looks for gold prices to be at $1,250 a troy ounce in three months and $1,325 a year from now, the investment bank said in a research report late Thursday.The updated three-, six- and 12-month forecasts average around $100 lower compared to the bank’s previous outlook as the gold market has been in a sharp downtrend since mid-April, although sideways in recent we...Read More
U.S. rate hike of 25 basis points. “Alongside the move in U.S. Treasuries, gold prices tend to come under pressure ahead of a rate hike, and rebound after,” Standard says. “But perhaps more importantly, the market has entered a seasonally strong period for demand. Buying in India has picked up amid lower prices and jewelers have restocked; festival-related purchasing should add t...Read More
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The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday September 21.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange edged mostly higher at the close of business on Thursday September 20 but the complex lacked fresh directional news. Read more in our live futures report.Here are how prices looked at the close of trading:LME Week 2018, the largest annual gathering of metals and mining figu...Read More
The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday September 21.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange edged mostly higher at the close of business on Thursday September 20 but the complex lacked fresh directional news. Read more in our live futures report.Here are how prices looked at the close of trading:LME Week 2018, the largest annual gathering of metals and mining figu...Read More
Aluminium scrap prices in Europe fell to their lowest in several years , with a supply overhang continuing to batter the market.Escalations in the trade war between the United States and China as well as tightening environmental regulations in China have diverted significant volumes of scrap into other markets, including Europe, pressuring scrap prices to record lows.The price of floated frag in E...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
Metal Bulletin proposes to launch a premium assessment for duty-free nickel briquette cif Shanghai.Nickel briquette - a key feedstock for stainless steel making as well as for nickel sulfate, for which use is growing in the electrical vehicles (EV) sector - is largely consumed in China. With demand expected to grow in China in the coming years because of the EV boom, market liquidity for nickel br...Read More
With ferro-vanadium trading at a 13-year high in Europe, Metal Bulletin looks back at some of the key events that have set the scene for prices to more than double so far in 2018.April 2015 Evraz Highveld Steel & Vanadium and its Mapochs Mine subsidiary enter business rescue proceedings, ultimately taking nearly 4,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of vanadium out of the market.November 2015 Ferro-van...Read More
Copper mining group Antofagasta Minerals will start to extract molybdenum at its Centinela Mine in Chile from next year, with production ramping up to 2.000 tonnes in 2019, the company announced earlier this month.The Centinela operation was formed in 2014 from the merger of the Esperanza and El Tesoro mining companies. Centinela mines sulfide and oxide deposits 1,350km north of Santiago in the An...Read More
With ferro-vanadium trading at a 13-year high in Europe, Metal Bulletin looks back at some of the key events that have set the scene for prices to more than double so far in 2018.April 2015 Evraz Highveld Steel & Vanadium and its Mapochs Mine subsidiary enter business rescue proceedings, ultimately taking nearly 4,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of vanadium out of the market.November 2015 Ferro-van...Read More