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
Even though markets have been rallying for the last few months, many top TSX stocks are still far from their all-time highs. This year’s expected superior earnings growth against 2020 should drive those Canadian names to record levels. Here are the top three TSX stocks that could soar higher amid the post-pandemic recovery.Restaurant Brands InternationalRestaurant Brands International (TSX:Q...Read More
We've talked a lot about what I like to call the "Great Extraction." I started talking about it nearly 10 years ago when it became clear that the Fed might never slow the printing presses even if it could.Quick note - I'm pretty sure I stole the term from someone, but I did a cursory Google search to see if I could find an attribution and "great extraction" results seem to focus on pulling teeth a...Read More
Mar 19, 2021 Guest(s): Bill Baruch President, Blue Line Futures More than the threat of inflation, the Federal Reserve is really concerned about unemployment and underemployment, said Bill Baruch, president of Blue Line Futures."[The Fed] doesn't really expect inflation, that doesn't give them reason to move but they do want to see full employment," Baruch said. "The U3 rate is about 6%. It's th...Read More
Aluminium's price on the London Metal Exchange was up 2.2% at the close to $2,265 per tonne on March 19, with the rest of the base metals complex also benefiting from a short-covering bounce on Friday.The light metal came to $2,275 per tonne on Friday at around 4:30pm, its highest level since June 14 2018, when it reached $2,280 per tonne at a time of deep trade tensions between the United States...Read More
A strike by transport workers in Peru has disrupted the movement of metal concentrate between mines and key ports such as Callao, in Lima. The strike by freight carriers began on Monday February 15, affecting commercial trucking for all products and has emerged due to high fuel and toll costs, among other grievances, according to local media outlet El Comercio. Peru was the world's top exporter of...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Susan Zou and Sybil Pan...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Susan Zou and Sybil Pan...Read More
A strike by transport workers in Peru has disrupted the movement of metal concentrate between mines and key ports such as Callao, in Lima. The strike by freight carriers began on Monday February 15, affecting commercial trucking for all products and has emerged due to high fuel and toll costs, among other grievances, according to local media outlet El Comercio. Peru was the world's top exporter of...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ending Friday March 19.China Seaborne low- and high-grade manganese ore prices dropped after miners encountered strong resistance among buyers, who launched aggressive counter-bids. Portside low- and high-grade manganese ore markets slipped again, driven by falling silico-manganese futures prices, with many selle...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesMar 19, 2021The gold miners' stocks have suffered an extended correction in recent months, leaving them deeply out of favor. Yet their underlying fundamentals remain incredibly strong, thanks to continuing high prevailing gold prices. These companies' recently-released Q4'20 results revealed they are thriving, generating massive revenues, earnings, and operating cash flows. Th...Read More
Caerus - the Greek word for ‘opportunity' boasts twelve exploration licences covering over 32km, comprising 14 former copper mines.Read More
Operating profit for the six months to December 31 was ZAR5.2 billion, Northam said on Friday.Read More
Spot copper concentrate processing charges rebounded for the first time so far this year on Friday March 19, following 11 consecutive weekly declines. Fastmarkets calculated its benchmark copper concentrate treatment and refining charge (TC/RC) index, cif Asia Pacific at $28.10 per tonne/ 2.81 cents per lb for the week ended Friday March 19. Last week, the index dipped below $30...Read More
The bill, which aims to set a royalty of 3% ad valorem for copper and lithium, and which received a favourable reading by the mining commission in March 2020, will be returned to the Chamber of Deputies. Its passage had been frozen in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Half the funds obtained from the royalty would go into a regional convergence fund to finance regional and communal development pro...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Charlotte Radford, Cristina Belda...Read More
An overview of the aerospace materials markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Dalila Ouerghi in...Read More
Global steel scrap prices continued to fall over the week ended Friday March 19, with market participants battling against the disruptions in the bulk freight sector.Turkey goes quiet despite rise in available cargoesUS sellers expect Turkey to return for scrap soonLack of free vessels hobbles Vietnam import businessBuying slows in China amid weaker appetite for scrapSellers to Taiwan resist furth...Read More
The market for light iron steel scrap in the UK dropped in the week to Friday March 19, tracking a similar move in the European deep-sea export markets to Turkey and the Indian subcontinent, although British domestic supply tightness should support prices in the near term, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-m...Read More
Prices for shredded steel scrap imported into India and Pakistan fell in the week to Friday March 19 due to weak market conditions and poor demand from buyers, sources told Fastmarkets.IndiaFastmarkets calculated its steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India at $427.50 per tonne on Friday, down from $450.83 per tonne the week previous.A deal was heard at $425 per tonne for...Read More
A strike by transport workers in Peru has disrupted the movement of metal concentrate between mines and key ports such as Callao, in Lima. The strike by freight carriers began on Monday February 15, affecting commercial trucking for all products and has emerged due to high fuel and toll costs, among other grievances, according to local media outlet El Comercio. Peru was the world's top exporter of...Read More