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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
Silvercrest Metals (TSXV: SIL; NYSE: SILV) continues cutting high grade mineralization at its Las Chispas silver property in Sonora, Mexico.The latest results from a phase three infill drill program at the property included 9.3 metres grading 39.66 grams gold and 3,361 grams silver, or 6,336 grams silver equivalent, from 194 metres downhole and 2.4 metres at 4.3 grams gold and 1,571.5 grams silve...Read More
Canadian junior Equinox Gold (TSX-V: EQX) is in the countdown to begin commercial production at its Aurizona gold mine in Brazil, bringing the company closer to its goal of becoming a leading mid-tier producer of the yellow metal.Equinox is building the 136,000 ounces-per-year Aurizona gold mine in Brazil, which is expected to start production in Q1.As part of its growth strategy for 2019, the co...Read More
San Marco Resources (TSXV: SMN) today announced that, following the completion of a first-phase of exploration and evaluation, experts were able to confirm the existence of a porphyry copper-molybdenum-gold system at the Esp?-ritu SMR property in northern Mexico's Sonora state.The 4697-hectare Esp?-ritu SMR property is located approximately 15 kilometres east of the town of Sahuaripa and is 100% o...Read More
Shares in Egypt-focused gold miner Centamin (LON:CEY) (TSX:CEE) nosedived Wednesday in London after the company posted a 13% drop in full-year gold output from Sukari, its only operating mine and the African country's sole bullion-exporting operation.The company produced 472,418 ounces of gold at the Sukari mine last year, compared to 544,658 ounces in 2017, due to disruptions and lower grades at...Read More
Concentrate exports from Indonesia's Grasberg mine, the world's second-largest copper mine, will drop about 85% this year because of a lag in output while operations shift from open pit to underground mining, a government official said on Wednesday.Shipments this year are expected to fall to 200,000 tonnes from an estimated 1.2 million tonnes last year, Yunus Saefulhak, director of minerals at Ind...Read More
Turkish pipe export prices have continued to fall with weak demand and lower costs for pipemaking raw materials, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday January 9.Steel pipe mills reduced their offers for EN10219-standard, grade-S235 tube, with 2mm wall thickness, to $570-580 per tonne fob from the $590-600 per tonne heard last month.Fastmarkets' monthly export price assessment for tube of this grad...Read More
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Prices for hollow steel sections in Europe remained flat on Wednesday January 9 while market participants digested the news about a revised import quota regime for the region.Fastmarkets' domestic price assessment for commodity-size, grade-S235 square hollow sections made in Northern Europe remained at ?,?635-650 ($727-744) per tonne delivered on Wednesday.Less than 5,000 tonnes remains to be allo...Read More
Domestic prices for steel beams in Europe remained unchanged again on Wednesday January 9, with the market slow to return to trading after the New Year break, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets MB's weekly price assessment for domestic S235-grade, 200x200mm, category-2 H-beam in Northern Europe was unchanged at ?,?620-645 ($710-739) per tonne on January 9.In December, mills had been pu...Read More
It's easy to prepare your retirement savings for the New Year.It's that time of year again.Yes, the holiday season is filled with shopping and Christmas parties, but we still have to squeeze in a little time for end-of-year portfolio housekeeping. Because let's face it, life isn't exactly going to slow down once we hit the first of the yearIt's particularly important to take a good look at your 40...Read More
The price for rebar produced and delivered in Northern Europe stayed flat on Wednesday January 9, although the European Commission's recent proposal for 2019 steel import tariffs has removed some of the uncertainty in the market. Fastmarkets MB's weekly price assessment for domestic rebar in Northern Europe remained at $540-560 ($618-641) per tonne delivered on Wednesday, with no new deals reporte...Read More
John Williams & Chris Waltzek Ph.D. - January 8th, 2019. -- CLICK HERE TO LISTEN NOW (Mp3 file) HighlightsThe founder of Shadowstats.com, a leading online alternative economic-resource offers listener's a financial market overview for 2019.John Williams notes the economic mishaps leading up to the Great Recession of 2008 were mostly ignored.The inordinately large global financial-bubble...Read More
Big moves will be there in metals, energies and the US dollar Index only after the outcome of US-China trade talks are known. Till then, the consolidation phase will be there. Focus of the world in on a Chinese slowdown. Long term metal investors are on the sidelines as they expect slower and lower Chinese demand. If the trade talks succeed and all issues comes to an end once and for all, then a...Read More
This is the 4th and final article in this series that concludes in a trend forecast for the Silver price 2019. Silver Price Trend Forecast 2018 ReviewGold - Silver RatioSilver Price Trend Analysis 2019Silver Price Trend Forecast Conclusion for 2019The whole of this analysis has first been made available to Patrons who support my work.So for immediate First Access to ALL of my analysis and trend fo...Read More
Asian steel markets are in for another tumultuous year judging by the rate at which new developments are expected to spring up in 2019.China remains the center of interest, and rightly so, because its economic and governmental policies have cascading effects on the international steel market.While its progressive economic policies have served it well in sustaining its domestic steel sector in the...Read More
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European long steel buyers were quiet throughout December on uncertainties arising from the United States' various trade wars, but a European Commission quota proposal in January has offered some hope of more certainty to sellers. The EC proposal for new import quotas for steel products in Europe has finally offered some clarity on what form those quotas will take in 2019, but the US governme...Read More
The Fed minutes underscored a dovish take toward future rate hikesStocks soared today on lingering trade tailwinds, while a relatively dovish tone in the December Fed meeting minutes only strengthened bulls' resolve into the close. Traders also watched as oil prices surged back above the $50 per barrel mark for the first time since mid-December, while Apple (AAPL) climbed to the top of the Dow, de...Read More
ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf is also heading toward its best day in yearsStocks are cruising higher today, enjoying solid gains amid U.S China trade optimism. Among stocks making notable moves today, Kandi Technologies Group Inc (NASDAQ:KNDI) and computer hardware issue Diebold Nixdorf Inc (NYSE:DBD) are higher, while Snapchat parent Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) is lower. Below, we'll take a look at the...Read More