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
Lacy Hunt at Hoisington Management has some interesting thoughts regarding the inflation debate.Continue...Read More
The action in recent days has confirmed a short-term bottom in Gold and gold stocks.Continue...Read More
All these casinos that are called banks are every day making bets that put the bank at risk. In an orderly and controlled market, they make enormous amounts of money for themselves. Continue...Read More
A heartbreaking sign of the times: In isolation wards where patients die alone, craving the touch of their loved ones, nurses fill gloves with warm water to simulate that comfort. They call it the Hand of God. pic.twitter.com/KAhzweRlB4- Marc Goldstein (@marcgoldstein_) April 9, 2021 Read More
The co-founder of the polarizing Black Lives Matter movement is under fire for buying a $1.4 million home in a posh California neighborhood that's 88 percent white.Continue...Read More
"We're looking at all of the productive options to address both the economic reasons people may be migrating, as well as the protection and security reasons," she said.Continue...Read More
Automotive manufacturer Volvo Group and Swedish steelmaker SSAB have signed a collaboration agreement for the research, development, serial production and commercialization of the world's first vehicles to be made of fossil-free steel, the companies said on Thursday April 8. Volvo plans to start the production of concept vehicles and components produced from steel made by SSAB using hydrogen this...Read More
Hybrit, the joint venture involving Swedish steelmaker SSAB, iron-ore producer LKAB and power company Vattenfall, will build a hydrogen storage facility as part of its plans for fossil-free steel production, it announced on Wednesday April 7. Hybrit will build a rock cavern storage facility for fossil-free hydrogen gas next to its pilot facility for direct reduction in Lule??, Sweden.The inve...Read More
Tata Steel's recycling business in India is to offer domestically produced shredded material to the Indian market, adding to its existing offering, the company told Fastmarkets on Wednesday April 7.Yogesh Bedi, chief of Tata Steel Recycling Business, told Fastmarkets the company was in the final stages of commissioning a shredder, which would let the company offer domestically produced shredded sc...Read More
It’s tempting to say that miners areshowing strength compared to gold based on the GDX’s performance, but othermining proxies say otherwise.Just because a house is standing doesn'tmean its foundations are solid, and that's exactly the case with the miners.There’s one extra thing that I would liketo point out about mining stocks’ technical picture today (Apr. 8), and that&rs...Read More
Proposed changes to the London Metal Exchange's market structure may actually have the opposite effect to its desired intention: destroying liquidity, not increasing it.Attention has been focused on the proposed permanent closure of the LME ring, the incentivization of electronic trade and changes to margin methodology, which were central issues in the exchange's recently closed discussion paper.B...Read More
No system, metals nor the monetary system, will survive based on lies. Once confidence is lost, the system will have to revert to...Craig Hemke and John Adams on Palisades Gold RadioCraig discusses his recent call on shortages beginning in particular mints. Some of the entities like the Comex are too big to fail, and like the LBMA, they will simply adjust the rules. Breaking the Comex is putting e...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.This month's key ferro-alloy forecast highlights:?EUR? Impressive advances in ore and alloy prices persisted in March, with most markets posting significant price gains. Strengthening demand from steelmakers along with supply shortages and depleted inventories in numerous markets, as well as freight and transportation...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.With nickel prices down by almost 20% over the space of around ten days during late February and early March, one might have been expecting us to be reporting sharply-lower prices of stainless steel, at least for the most common nickel-containing grades of stainless steel.This is not the case, at least in Europe and the Unite...Read More
With gold's reputation as a store of value and recent gold-focused merger and acquisition activity, there is renewed investor interest in companies active in this exploration.Read full newsRead More
The COVID-19 pandemic brought devastating economic turmoil last year. Indeed, heightened market volatility materialized in a way we haven’t seen in some time.However, one year later, much of the volatility has died down. Indeed, whatever volatility is left appears to be on the upside.Speculative assets like Bitcoin are outperforming equities by a wide margin. Safe-haven stocks are underperfo...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday April 9 that are worth another look.Export prices for Brazil-origin slab have increased amid high offers to the United States, where demand for the semi-finished steel is strong and flat steel prices are near record...Read More
Global demand and supply for the commodities these two mining stocks produce improved considerably recently. The outlook for 2021 is positive.Iron ore prices are up, driven by high Chinese demand and lower outputs in Brazil.Mining stocks had a nice run over the last weeks of 2020. Since the beginning of November, the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index rose by nearly 30 per cent by year-end, thanks t...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday April 9 that are worth another look.Export prices for Brazil-origin slab have increased amid high offers to the United States, where demand for the semi-finished steel is strong and flat steel prices are near record...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday April 9 that are worth another look.Export prices for Brazil-origin slab have increased amid high offers to the United States, where demand for the semi-finished steel is strong and flat steel prices are near record...Read More