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
The FTSE100 closed lower as British prime minister Theresa May has to come up with a "Brexit Plan B" after her government survived a no-confidence vote.Precious metals miner Fresnillo (LSE: FRES) was among those posting the biggest declines yesterday on the London Stock Exchange, down 2.96% on no news.Rio Tinto also closed lower, down 0.59%, while metals and mining stocks rose a collective 2.04% i...Read More
United States-based Alcoa, the world's eighth-largest aluminium producer, has forecast a surplus of alumina in 2019 while it increases metal production across the board.There was a 600,000-tonne deficit of alumina at the end of 2018, the company said, rounding off a year of record market tightness.Fastmarkets' alumina index rocketed upward to $707.75 per tonne on April 24, 2018, the highest since...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee"), is pleased to announce today the finalization of an integration agreement for the Venzee distribution platform with an existing product content management engine. This agreement is an enhancement to a relationship with an existing referral partner based in the European Market."Integrating to existing platforms...Read More
Indonesia's Gresik 300,000 tpy copper smelter has yet to resume full operations after an earlier maintenance shutdown caused by an oxygen plant issue, Fastmarkets has learned. "The oxygen plant, which is operated by the third party has resumed, but not reached full operations. Therefore, although Gresik smelter has partially resumed since the middle of December 2018, it has not returned normal ope...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1291.80-$1.50Silver$15.53-$0.06XAU69.53-0.01%HUI153.79+0.06%GDM578.47+0.31%JSE Gold1353.59+32.94USD96.05-0.02Euro113.91-0.05Yen91.77-0.17Oil$52.07-$0.2410-Year2.746%+0.025T-Bond145.1875-0.28125Dow24370.10+0.67%Nasdaq7084.46+0.71%S&P2635.96+0.76% The Metals: Gold chopped between $1291.40 and $1295.00 in Asia before it dipped to $1288.90 by midmorning in New York, but it...Read More
For first time in over 16 years, palladium futures settle at a premium to gold futuresGold futures on Wednesday resumed their climb toward the psychologically important price of $1,300 an ounce, settling at their highest in nearly two weeks on the back of political turmoil in the U.K. and U.S.Caution among traders had deepened "ahead of a no-confidence vote on British Prime Minister Theresa May'...Read More
(Updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Aluminium fell on Thursday aftera vote by U.S. lawmakers cleared the way for sanctions to belifted on major producer Rusal, potentially increasing supply.The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation to keepsanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch OlegDeripaska, including Rusal . In December, the U.S. Treasury said...Read More
COMEX FUTURES REPORTThe Brexit vote is over. Theresa May survives. Her next moves will be closely watched. Political uncertainty will result in gold trading with a firm bias. Traders will now start taking positions for Tuesday as Monday is a holiday in the USA. The US dollar is firm due to its safe haven status over the Pound and Euro. Focus will now be on economic data releases and its impact...Read More
Fastmarkets' minor metals team answers some of the key questions raised during our recent web seminar, discussing recent market trends in minor metals, and the factors expected to drive price moves in 2019. If you missed it, follow this link to listen to the free recording. Has smuggling affected any other metals apart from antimony? Is it only antimony that is being smuggled? It is not only antim...Read More
The London Metal Exchange has announced it will launch seven of its new cash-settled futures products on March 11, and has selected Fastmarkets to be the price provider for three of the new contracts.In total, there will be two new ferrous contracts, three new contracts into the LME's aluminium suite and two minor metals contracts. "The introduction of new contracts is a strategically important gr...Read More
Trevali Mining's Caribou zinc mine in the Bathurst Mining Camp of New Brunswick. Source: Trevali Mining Corp.Trevali Mining Corp. [TV-TSX, LMA; TREVF-OTCQX; 4T1-Frankfurt] on Thursday January 17 announced a leadership change, along with weaker-than-expected production guidance for 2019.The company said CEO Mark Cruise and Chairman Mike Hoffman both plan to step down as part of a leadership transit...Read More
Kirk WoodmanCanadian geologist Kirk Woodman was kidnapped and later killed on Wednesday (January 16, 2019) while he was working in Burkina Faso, West Africa.The veteran geologist was employed by Progress Minerals Inc., a privately-owned Vancouver minerals exploration company.Progress has confirmed that its exploration camp near Tantiabongou in the Sahel region of northern Burkina Faso near the fro...Read More
Turkish steel producers have resumed their deep-sea scrap purchases for January-February at higher prices, sources said on Thursday January 17.Suppliers were seeking higher prices for their scrap because of the rise in collection costs during the difficult winter season, sources said.A steel producer in the Marmara region booked a Canadian cargo, comprising 17,000-20,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (90:10),...Read More
Former trader at Kyen Resources, Nishchay Chadha, has joined Viant Commodities as their head of trading in the Viant office in Singapore, Fastmarkets has learned. Chadha will oversee the refined metal and scrap trading business at Viant Commodities, a source close to...Read More
The import price for steel billet in Southeast Asia edged down on Thursday January 17 amid lower bids from buyers who expect further price drops, although trading activity has picked up in the region this week.Fastmarkets' daily import price assessment for billet in Southeast Asia was $445-448 per tonne cfr Manila on Thursday, narrowing downward by $2 per tonne on the high end from $445-450 per to...Read More
The Comex copper price reversed lower in the US morning on Thursday January 17 with the market unable to find solid direction amid a lack of news on trade developments between the United States and China. The copper price for March settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange dipped 0.95 cents to $2.6640 per lb. "We are seeing modest losses across the metals board in relati...Read More
Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange exhibited mixed movements whileconsolidating this morning, Thursday January 17. Copper, nickel, lead and zinc were down by between 0.1% and 0.5%, while aluminium and tin prices were up by 0.3% and 0.4% respectively. The three-month copper price was off by 0.1% at $5,973 per tonne.Volume across the LME base metals complex was above average...Read More
Share this articleTORONTO - The killing of a Canadian mining company executive in Burkina Faso is drawing attention to the deteriorating security situation in the country and the risks resource firms face in unstable regions.Kirk Woodman, who was working for Vancouver-based Progress Minerals Inc., was found dead after being kidnapped from a company exploration camp in the country Tuesday.The...Read More
The Thursday Market Minute Global stocks weaken amid concerns over the fate of U.S.-China trade talks as lawmakers target Huawei and ZTE with a bill targeting export bans.China Vice Premier Liu He confirms he'll attend two-days of talks in Washington starting January 30.Global oil prices slip lower as the U.S. dollar gains, EIA data shows domestic production rose to a record 11.9 million barrels...Read More
The London Metal Exchange will launch a new cash-settled cobalt contract on March 11, settled against the benchmark standard-grade cobalt price assessed by Fastmarkets. The final settlement price will be an arithmetic average of the twice-weekly Fastmarkets standard-grade cobalt price in the expiring contract month. Fastmarkets achieved type 1 IOSCO assurance for its standard-grade cobalt price in...Read More