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
Apparent steel consumption in Brazil is expected to grow by 3.50-4.50% during 2019, ArcelorMittal said in its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2018, published on Thursday February 7. This rate compared with a 7.30% increase reported in 2018.The company, which is the largest steelmaker in the world, believes that the country's automotive and machinery industries will show slower growth dur...Read More
Turkish export rebar and wire rod prices have soared in the first week of February following the surge in import scrap costs in the country.The price for imported scrap increased on tight supply, low stocks and high collection costs because of the winter weather.The Fastmarkets MB daily ferrous scrap HMS 1&2 (80:20) index for material in North...Read More
Steel billet import prices in Egypt increased this week with deals being agreed at higher levels, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday February 7.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet imported into Egypt was $460-470 per tonne cfr on Thursday, rising from $450-455 per tonne cfr last week.Billet producers in the CIS were offering material to Egypt at $470-480 per tonne cfr. This com...Read More
The daily indices of prices for Turkish deep-sea scrap imports went down by $1 per tonne on Thursday February 7 after another cargo was booked from the United States, sources have told Fastmarkets.The recent trend remains positive, however, after a $9 per tonne jump earlier in the week, boosted by strong sales of billet and rebar in Turkey.In the latest deal, a steel mill in the Samsun region book...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices remained flat on Thursday February 7 on continued muted trading amid a week-long public holiday in China. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $85.53 per tonne cfr Qingdao, unchanged. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $86.37 per tonne cfr Qingdao, unchanged. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $87.32 per tonne cfr Qingdao, unchanged. MB 58% Fe Premium Index: $78.74 per tonne cfr...Read More
By: Dave Kranzler"Our advice is to own as little exposure U.S. equity exposure as your career risk allows." - Martin Tarlie, member of portfolio allocation at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo investment managementThe following is an excerpt from the latest Short Seller's Journal:Economy is worse than policy makers admit publicly - Less than four months ago, the FOMC issued a policy statement tha...Read More
Happy Year of the Pig! This week marks the start of China's Spring Festival, during which an estimated 3 billion trips will be made using the country's massive transportation network of roads and rail. That figure is a slight rise from the same period last year, despite slowing economic growth prompted by trade tensions with the U.S. and a strengthening dollar.Ctrip, China's largest online trave...Read More
Listen to the Podcast Audio: Click Here Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome Axel Merk President and Chief investment officer of Merk Investment and author of the book Sustainable Wealth. Axel is a well-known market commentator and money manager and is a highly sought-after guest at financial conferences and on news outlets throughout the world and it's always great to have him bac...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinMomentum is gold and silver point down but support should not be far away:Read More
Wednesday's asphyxiating tedium was a reminder that DaBoyz are in no rush to take stocks higher, especially if the short-covering needed to do so is absent. Usually, bear buying-binges are driven by "good" news. On this particular day, however, the headlines concerned a State of the Union speech that held little interest for Wall Street. Toss in the usual bilge concerning political bickering, Mu...Read More
Steel billet export prices from Iran continued to climb in the first week of February supported by an uptrend in the global market after a sharp rise in raw materials prices.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for Iranian billet exports was $370 per tonne fob on Wednesday February 6, against $360-370 per tonne fob last week.Iranian billet producers and traders selling material to f...Read More
Jason talks about central banks increasing their physical gold purchases by 74% year over year in 2018 and what that means.Central banks bought more gold in 2018 than any year since 1967: WGC https://finance.yahoo.com/news/centra...1) Here We Go: Fed "Finds" That Negative Rates Would Have Helped The Recovery https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-0...2) Australian Banks Overcharged Clients, Even Afte...Read More
"More people are thinking just like you are right now. You just don't know it," Chris Martenson tells Silver Doctors.We're seeing collapse in the "three E's": economy, environment, and energy. Martenson says these collapses are processes not events, and that these changes are happening now.Regarding the environment, he shares how insects is disappearing. "One does not simply remove the bottom of t...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. Read More
Turkish steel billet prices have shown a notable increase in the first week of February, supported by customers in both the domestic and export markets, Fastmarkets heard on Thursday February 7.Scrap prices have increased with Turkish buyers replenishing their stocks after thin buying in recent months, and because of the higher collection costs resulting from the winter weather.Fastmarkets' daily...Read More
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Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973, helping to steer the fund to a 4200% return before "retiring" at age 37. He is considered to be one of the greatest investors of all time. Rogers has made two record-setting journeys - once by motorcycle and once by car - and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for doing so. In between his frequent travels, he has served as a p...Read More
Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Luf...Read More