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
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average was rising Wednesday, getting a lift from earnings from two of the country's biggest banks.Bank of America Corp. (BAC) reported fourth-quarter profit of 70 cents a share, topping analysts' estimates by 7 cents. The stock rose 7.2%. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) earned $6.04...Read More
BloombergAn employee uses a hydraulic press at the Justin Paul Inc. manufacturing facility inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The numbers: The Empire State manufacturing index fell 7.6 points to 3.9 in January, the lowest reading in more than a year, the New York Federal Reserve said Tuesday. Economists had expected the index to inch up to 12, according to a survey by Econoday. The headline index has...Read More
Tin premiums in both Europe and China held firm in the week ended Tuesday January 15 despite mounting concerns over continued delays to Indonesian exports, while premiums in the United States moved higher for the first time since June 2018, with low stocks and a widening backwardation adding upward pressure to premiums. European market considers alternative supply solutions US market beginn...Read More
Latin American Minerals Inc (CVE:LAT) told investors it plans to complete a geophysical exploration program on its Butt township property in Ontario, Canada and has inked a contract with Generic Geo Inc, which will manage the work.The property, prospective for uranium and rare earths, has never been drilled, but several historical trenching and small-scale mining operations have occurred there.Not...Read More
Global zinc and lead premiums were stable over the past week with Asian markets beginning to hold back from conducting business ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday in early February. China's import appetite was low with only some deals for bonded-warehouse cargoes European zinc premiums flat although backwardation largely easing off US market quiet once again Southeast Asian lea...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesJan 16, 2019New Carolin Gold reports a total 43-101 resource of over 700,000 ounces of gold at a low-grade cutoff. That may not sound like much but they have a market cap of only $5.4 million. Those are cheap ounces at about a $6 per ounce US price.If I am right and we are on the verge of an explosion in the price of gold, the marginal projects will advance the most. While it&...Read More
Comex copper prices increased on Wednesday morning in the United States amid positive tailwinds from the Chinese stimulus news.Comex copper prices increased Wednesday morning in the US amid positive tailwinds from the Chinese stimulus news.The copper price for March settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed 3.10 to $2.6655 per lb.On Tuesday, China signaled its in...Read More
View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2019 and 2020. Click on the image below to view the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for base metals, minors, ores & alloys and industrial minerals, and ferrous prices for 2019 and 2020.If you have any questions about Fastmarkets' pricing calendar, please contact Fastmarkets global base metals editor Perrine Faye at perrine.faye@fastmarkets.com...Read More
(Updates prices) * British PM May's government wins no confidence vote * GRAPHIC-Gold vs currencies: By Arijit BoseBENGALURU, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Palladium rose to a recordhigh on Wednesday on increasing demand and lower supply of themetal used in auto catalysts, while gold gained on expectationsof a pause in the U.S. Federal Reserve's rate-hiking cycle.Palladium jumped to an all-time high of $1,35...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday January 16 that are worth another look.European Union member states on Wednesday January 16 voted to support proposed definitive measures in the region's safeguard case into imported steel, the European Commission said.Hebei Steel, China's largest steel mill, cut its monthly purchase price for silico-manganese for a...Read More
It said it would use the funds to complete a feasibility study on its Josemaria project in Argentina, engineering and exploration studies on the company's other projects, repaying the existing balanceRead More
View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2019 and 2020. Click on the image below to view the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for base metals, minors, ores & alloys and industrial minerals, and ferrous prices for 2019 and 2020.If you have any questions about Fastmarkets' pricing calendar, please contact Fastmarkets global base metals editor Perrine Faye at perrine.faye@fastmarkets.com...Read More
Chinese ferro-vanadium export prices saw an uptick in the pricing week ended Thursday January 10 amid a comparatively active market as many overseas buyers returned to the market after their year-end holiday break.Fastmarkets' assessment for ferro-vanadium, fob China, was at $69-72 per kg on January 10, up 1.8% from $68.50-70.00 per kg the week before.China's ferro-vanadium export market saw...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1293.30+$4.10Silver$15.59+$0.02XAU69.54+0.24%HUI153.70+0.41%GDM576.19-0.14JSE Gold1320.65-24.40USD96.07+0.14Euro113.96-0.16Yen91.94-0.42Oil$52.31+$0.2010-Year2.721%+0.003T-Bond145.46875+0.125Dow24207.16+0.59%Nasdaq7034.69+0.15%S&P2616.10+0.22% The Metals: Gold edged up to $1292.70 in Asia before it pared back to $1288.00 in London, but it then climbed to a new 6-month h...Read More
Gold Holds Steady Over ?1,000 - Increased Likelihood Of A Disorderly Brexit- Gold supported near $1,300/oz ahead of important British Brexit no-confidence vote- Gold is consolidating in range between $1,280 and $1,300/oz (over ?1,000/oz and EUR1,100/oz) - A break of resistance at $1,300 will likely see gold rise rapidly in all currencies- Physical demand for gold coins and bars has picked up i...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
The Wednesday Market Minute U.S. equity futures turn green after stronger-than-expected earnings from Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.Global stocks mixed amid the increasing confusion over the impact of Prime Minister Theresa May's historic parliamentary defeat on Brexit last night and concern over the lack of progress in U.S.-China trade talks.U.K. lawmakers will debate a non-confidence motio...Read More
View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2019 and 2020. Click on the image below to view the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for base metals, minors, ores & alloys and industrial minerals, and ferrous prices for 2019 and 2020.If you have any questions about Fastmarkets' pricing calendar, please contact Fastmarkets global base metals editor Perrine Faye at perrine.faye@fastmarkets.com...Read More
Proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain twinned pipeline expansion project. Source: Kinder Morgan.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing increasing pressure to move faster and more forcefully to complete a new oil pipeline in Canada.The warning is contained in new public opinion data from the Angus Reid Institute, which has been released as First Nations leaders are meeting this week to di...Read More
The deep-sea scrap suppliers to Turkish steel mills were trying to increase their offer prices because collection costs were rising with the worsening winter conditions, sources said on Wednesday January 16.But Turkish steel producers were still struggling with weak demand for their finished steel products in the country's export and domestic markets."The scrap suppliers in the United States have...Read More