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
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) -The gold market is holding on to gains above $1,800 an ounce following mixed data on the health of the U.S. manufacturing and service sectors.Friday, IHS Markit said its flash U.S. manufacturing Purchas...Read More
Vale has restarted a conveyor belt at its Salobo copper mine in Brazil following an 18-day stoppage due to a fire, the multi-metal producer said on Friday October 22.Activities at the site's processing plant resumed on Friday, and the company will subsequently ramp up copper concentrate output on Monday October 25.An estimated 8,000 tonnes of copper production was lost because of that downtime, Va...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - MMG announced today that inQ3 2021, its copper production was 91,202 tonnes, 11% lower than in Q3 2020(102,469 tonnes), due to a prolonged community road blockade at Las Bambas andlower ore grades at K...Read More
(Reuters) - San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said on Friday that recent "eye-popping" inflation readings are driven by supply chain breakdowns and will subside as COVID does, and the Fed"s decision not to raise rates in response is the right one."Just because we are standing pat, being patient, is not the same as being asleep," Daly said. Raising rates now would not solve the...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - Harmony Gold Mining todayreported that two employees were fatally injured in the earlyhours of Thursday morning, following a seismic event resulting in a fall ofground at its Kusasalethu mine, near Car...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in India, Europe, China and the United States on Friday October 22.China Higher port prices and the likelihood of fewer shipments arriving in the coming months supported buying sentiment in the seaborne manganese ore market. Portside low- and high-grade manganese ore markets extended their rallies amid firm sentiment among suppliers, but buying appetites...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Global stock indexes were mostly flat to higher on Friday, with financial shares providing some support to the S&P 500 index in early trading, while the U.S. dollar slipped against a basket of currencies.MSCI's broadest gauge of global shares and the S&P 500 both were on track for a third straight week of gains.Investors also digested news that China Evergrande Group appeared t...Read More
By Bloomberg markets live commentator and former Lehman trader Mark CudmoreU.K. breakeven rates at the highest levels this century aren't yet high enough...We're entering the eye of the earnings season and the message from corporates is already coming through loud and clear: prices will climb a chunk further over the coming months, even as output is impaired. Every day brings fresh news of suppl...Read More
Oct 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.772 trillion during fiscal 2021, below the prior year's record shortfall but still reflecting a second straight year of massive spending to support households and businesses through the coronavirus pandemic, the Treasury Department said on Friday.The United States posted a deficit of $3.132 trillion in fiscal 2020, when the federal government f...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in China, Europe and the United States on Friday October 22. China ?EUR?The price of ferro silicon in China continued to narrow downward following a correction in a previous rally, with many market participants taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the market and an expected steel mill tender in late October. ?EUR?Overall supply was still tight, howeve...Read More
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - U.S. business activity increased solidly in October, suggesting economic growth picked up at the start of the fourth quarter as COVID-19 infections subsided, though labor and raw material shortages held back manufacturing.Data firm IHS Markit said on Friday its flash U.S. Composite PMI Output Index, which tracks the manufacturing and services sectors, rebounded to a...Read More
Fastmarkets has corrected its trioxide grade and standard grade antimony prices, in warehouse Rotterdam, which were incorrectly published on Friday October 22 due to a reporter error.The price for MB-SB-0001 Antimony, max 100 ppm Bi, in-whs Rotterdam, has been changed to $12,900-13,500 per tonne, from an incorrectly published price of $13,300-13,500 per tonne.And the price for MB-SB-0002 Antimony...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar edged lower on Friday and is set for a second consecutive week of decline as news that heavily indebted property firm China Evergrande Group had averted a default buoyed appetite for risky assets.With markets nearly discounting the prospects of a first U.S. rate hike by next July in recent days, the dollar has become more sensitive to risk sentiment. Yields on be...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - Heading into the European open gold (0.40%) and silver (0.38%) are both trading higher. The yellow metal is at $1789.88/oz still below the 200 day moving average and psychological $1800/oz level. Elsew...Read More
BALTIMORE, Oct 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday backed away from pledged tax increases to fund planned infrastructure and social spending, and also said he was open to reforming Senate voting rights by "fundamentally altering" its filibuster custom.In a wide-ranging CNN town hall in Baltimore, Biden said he was close to striking a deal to pass major spending measures after week...Read More
European trade groups warned about the potentially "catastrophic impact" of a Chinese magnesium supply shortage on metals producers in the region, calling on the European Commission and national governments to take immediate action to mitigate the risks to industry.The groups - European Aluminium, European steel association Eurofer, European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, European metals a...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Global shares got a tech boost to help tee up a third straight week of gains on Friday, despite growing inflation concerns, while the dollar dipped and oil prices bounced off their lows.MSCI's broadest gauge of global shares was up 0.1%, 1.4% higher on the week and just 0.8% off its all-time high. Europe's top markets all rose, with the biggest, Britain's FTSE 100, up 0.5%.Europ...Read More
Unites States steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs plans to increase its share of the US domestic prime scrap market amid increasing demand and the failure of the country's own manufacturing supply to keep up, the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer said.Lourenco Goncalves told a conference call for the Cleveland, Ohio-based company's third quarter earnings that the company didn't hav...Read More
(Recasts, adds comment and updates prices)* Gold up 1.3% so far this week* Gold could test $1,800/oz level again- analyst* Gold trade lacklustre despite robust U.S. inflation data - CitiOct 22 (Reuters) - Gold gained for a fourth consecutive session on Friday, propped up by a subdued dollar, while inflationary pressures boosted demand for the precious metal as a safe-haven investment.Spot gold ros...Read More
Ferrous scrap prices in the global markets continued to strengthen in the week ended Friday October 22 amid firm demand and tight supply. Turkish steel mills continued to pay higher prices for deep-sea scrap cargoes, while buyers in Southeast Asia had to raise their bids because of limited supply.?EUR?Turkish steel mills end the week with five deep-sea cargo trades, prices up?EUR?Tight supply in t...Read More