Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger considers how recent market moves have influenced investment in the precious metals markets. I had not intended to hit the keyboard today, having worked all week to prepare the Special Situations Report on my top-performing Norseman Silver Ltd. (NOC:TSX.V) (whose 65% year-to-date advance and 869% advance since the March 2020 lows has been a pleasant surprise), but...Read More
This third campaign at Outcrop Gold's Santa Ana calls for 12,000 meters of drilling. Outcrop Gold Corp. (OCG:TSX.V; OCGSF:OTCPK; MRG1:DE) began a third phase of drilling at its Santa Ana silver property in Colombia, the company announced in a news release. With the planned 12,000 meters of drilling, the explorer stated that it aims to delineate five known shoots along strike and at depth. They ar...Read More
Silver Viper Minerals Corp. reported that recent drill results from a 28 meter core sample at its La Virginia Gold-Silver Project in Mexico returned high-grades that included 1.0 m of 491 g/t silver and 10.3 g/t gold and 1.0 m of 351 g/t silver and 11.1 g/t gold. In a news release, Mexico-focused precious metals exploration company Silver Viper Minerals Corp. (VIPR:TSX.V; VIPRF:OTCQB) announced r...Read More
Volkswagen has placed a $14-billion battery cell supply order with battery maker Northvolt for the next 10 years, the Swedish company said on Monday March 15, making Northvolt the carmaker's "strategic lead supplier for premium battery cells for Volkswagen Group in Europe." The Swedish battery also said it will sell its share in joint venture Northvolt Zwei, one of the partnership's factories base...Read More
Brazilian slab and hot-rolled coil producer ArcelorMittal Tubar??o expects to resume operations at its hot-strip mill this week, after the equipment was put under maintenance on Monday March 8."ArcelorMittal Tubar??o informs a stoppage occurred in its hot-strip mill on March 8, 2021, with no impact on safety. The equipment is under maintenance, aiming to...Read More
China's crude steel, hot metal and finished steel production all rose significantly in the first two months of 2021, according to data released by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday March 15.Crude steel: 174.99 million tonnes, up by 12.9% from the same period a year earlierHot metal: 144.75 million tonnes, up by 6.4% year on yearFinished steel:...Read More
Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Tisco) plans to triple its annual output of stainless steel products by 2025, according to its general manager Gao Jianbing.The mill - China's second-largest stainless steel producer - plans to raise its annual crude steel output to 25 million tonnes by that year. Of these,...Read More
It’s all connected. The Eurozone’sunderperformance boosts the USD, thus placing pressure on gold and the ETFs.So, which ETFs will suffer most?A large part of yesterday’sfree version of the analysis focused on the Eurozone’s economicoutlook and how it affects the precious metals. We’ll eventually get to Europeagain later in today’s analysis, but let’s first...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 15 that are worth another look.Brazilian slab and hot-rolled coil producer ArcelorMittal Tubar??o expects to resume operations at its hot-strip mill this week, after the equipment was put under maintenance on Monday March 8.The Aluminium Stewardship...Read More
Brazilian slab and hot-rolled coil producer ArcelorMittal Tubar??o expects to resume operations at its hot-strip mill this week, after the equipment was put under maintenance on Monday March 8."ArcelorMittal Tubar??o informs a stoppage occurred in its hot-strip mill on March 8, 2021, with no impact on safety. The equipment is under maintenance, aiming to...Read More
Dear Reader,You come to our website looking for market answers.Well, with the help of our friends at Elliott Wave International, we are happy to offer you a new, free opportunity to see what's likely next for cotton, soybeans and crude oil -- for the entire 2021. EWI is the world's largest independent market-forecasting firm. Every year, their Chief Commodity Analyst Jeffrey Kennedy records an in-...Read More
Aluminium futures closed at a price of $2,218 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Monday March 15, showing almost double the volumes traded in copper, and with improved demand and tight availability of the light metal edging its price upward.The price of aluminium reached $2,235 per tonne during Monday, just $8 per tonne below its 2021 year-to-date high set on February 25, and finished at 5p...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe were largely stable day on day on Monday March 15, supported by a shortage of material in the region, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?791.25 ($945.39) per tonne on Monday March 15, down by just ?,?1.75 per tonne from ?,?793.00 per tonne on Friday March...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 15 that are worth another look.Brazilian slab and hot-rolled coil producer ArcelorMittal Tubar??o expects to resume operations at its hot-strip mill this week, after the equipment was put under maintenance on Monday March 8.The Aluminium Stewardship...Read More
When considering the prospects for the new Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) copper contract, a senior executive at one of the world's largest metals trading companies quoted Hamlet's soliloquy in the Shakespearian play of the same name."In terms of promotion of the internationalization of the renminbi and weakening of the pricing power of the [London Metal Exchange] and CME: 'To be or...Read More
A key topic reverberating around the Asian steel market over the past month has been the possibility of China reducing steel export rebates to 9% from the current 13%, or possibly axing them altogether.Market chatter on this topic has grown increasingly louder, with industry sources in China hearing more and more details about these plans from late January onward."This is likely in line with China...Read More
A shortage of containers to ship commodities around the world and the consequent soaring in associated freight rates have led to a revival of interest in breakbulk cargoes. Producers and physical traders of metals, agricultural, chemical and timber products have been starting to book shipments in breakbulk vessels, which cost far less and doesn't require vast amounts of equipment in port. On the m...Read More
Aluminium futures closed at a price of $2,218 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Monday March 15, showing almost double the volumes traded in copper, and with improved demand and tight availability of the light metal edging its price upward.The price of aluminium reached $2,235 per tonne during Monday, just $8 per tonne below its 2021 year-to-date high set on February 25, and finished at 5p...Read More
When considering the prospects for the new Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) copper contract, a senior executive at one of the world's largest metals trading companies quoted Hamlet's soliloquy in the Shakespearian play of the same name."In terms of promotion of the internationalization of the renminbi and weakening of the pricing power of the [London Metal Exchange] and CME: 'To be or...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices were lower across the board on Monday March 15 due to weak trading sentiment after a heavy sandstorm in Beijing added to concerns about the impact of emissions restrictions in Tangshan on iron ore demand. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $163.33 per tonne, down $2.11 per tonne 62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $163.61 per tonne, down $1.92 per t...Read More