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
* Cash copper premium to three-month contract at four-yearhigh * Chinese copper import premiums falling * Nickel prices rise to highest since August (Updates with closing prices)By Peter HobsonLONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Copper prices rose on Tuesdayafter top consumer China unveiled economic stimulus measuresincluding tax cuts for manufacturing industry, bolstering thedemand outlook.U.S. Secretary...Read More
COT SPECIAL PUBLICATION SCHEDULE Reminder -- Due to the U.S. Government Shutdown (February 1 Announcement) The last COT report was published on December 21, 2018. Reports going forward from that date will be published in chronological order beginning with the report previously scheduled for release on Friday, December 28, 2018 (based on data from Monday, December 24, 2018). The CFTC publ...Read More
By: IRA EPSTEINDaily Gold Chart in a freefall, overdone on the short-term. Gold in the $1,270's looks interesting.Read More
Monday's vicious shakedown was poetry in motion. An hour into the session, stocks were falling so hard that you might have thought the world was about to end. Far from it, as suckers who sold into the avalanche were soon to discover. DaBoyz had laid the groundwork for Monday morning's crime spree by goosing shorts the night before. This caused the E-Minis to gap 13 points above last week's highs...Read More
Global economy is slowing. China has lowered its economic growth forecast and also announced a major tax cut. Chinese economy is expected to see a slowest growth in the past three decades. Industrial metals may have formed a short term top. Long term bullishness in selected industrial metals (including silver) is intact. Technically gold needs to trade over $1260 till 11th March to be in short...Read More
Ferro-chrome prices are likely to be supported in the near to medium term by concerns over South Africa's power constraints, market sources believe.South Africa's state-owned power utility Eskom implemented load shedding - controlled power outages that aim to reduce strain on the country's system - in February.The resulting blackouts had minimal impact on prices but did affect ferro-chrome product...Read More
The Zaldivar copper mine in Chile. Source: Barrick Gold Corp.After a week of verbal sparring over a proposed merger, the ceos of Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, NYSE] and Newmont Mining Corp. [NEM-NYSE]were set to meet in New York late Tuesday. Newmont CEO Gary Goldberg told Bloomberg News that he won't be discussing Barrick's bid for his company, but rather Newmont's proposal for a joint venture aro...Read More
Turkish steel producers continued to book deep-sea scrap cargoes for April shipments due to low stock levels, with prices continuing to nudge up, sources said on Tuesday March 5.A steel mill in Northern Turkey booked a European cargo, comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (75:25), a 10,000-tonne mixture of HMS and plate & structural (P&S) scrap, and 5,000 tonnes of new cuttings at an....Read More
Drilling operations at Newrange Gold's Pamlico Project in western Nevada. Source: Newrange Gold Corp.Newrange Gold Corp. [NRG-TSXV] Chairman Bob Carrington said Monday the company hopes to announce a resource estimate this year for its flagship Pamlico gold project in Nevada. Carrington spoke to Resource World Magazine while attending the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC...Read More
* Labour's McDonnell says few MPs to back May - analysts * May's top lawyer is in Brussels, no breakthrough seen * Britain's services recover slightly in Feb - PMI * Graphic: World FX rates in 2019* Graphic: Trade-weighted sterling since Brexit vote (Adds details, new chart, updates with latest prices)By Tommy Wilkes and Sujata RaoLONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Sterling fell on Tuesday afterthe oppos...Read More
Ontario's Government for the people is delivering on its commitment to create more opportunities for Indigenous people and address the skilled labour shortage across the North by making the Northern Ontario Internship Program more accessible.Today, Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines and Minister of Indigenous Affairs, announced the government is launching a new North...Read More
The price of copper on the Comex exchange in the United States bounced back in morning trading on Tuesday March 5, with continued optimism about the outcome of international trade talks.The copper price for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rebounded by 2.05 cents to $2.9295 per lb.Continued optimism about US-China trade talks has improved risk sentiment acro...Read More
Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were up across the board by an average of 0.8% this morning, Tuesday March 5. Volume was well above average with 12,645 lots having changed hands on Select as at 06.30am London time, compared with 6,685 lots at a similar time on Monday.Nickel led on the upside once again with a 2.2% gain to $13,575 per tonne, having closed on Monday at $1...Read More
Nickel demand is set to outstrip supply as soon as 2023, Amur Minerals chief executive officer Robin Young told Fastmarkets in an interview on Wednesday February 27. The junior mining company owns the Russia-based Kun-Manie project, the world's largest Asia-adjacent unexploited nickel deposit, home to an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of mineable nickel ore. And if nickel demand outstrips supply as...Read More
Tesla bears, shorts, and haters are peculiar types.Like cowardly cockroaches, they tend to stay hidden, only coming out to feast when its convenient.When Tesla first went public in 2010, I was warned not to buy the stock."Electric cars are a joke," they said."Elon Musk is a scam artist," they screamed.""Short the shit of this thing," they bellowed into the wind.But I ignored them, and in defiance...Read More
Croesus was the king of Lydia in what is today's Turkey. He was the first sovereign to mint gold coins and spawned the saying: "As rich as Croesus."In 560 BC, he asked the Oracle of Delphi if he should make war on his rivals, the Persians.The Oracle replied that if Croesus made war on the Persians, he would destroy a mighty empire. With this seemingly positive prophesy, Croesus aligned with Sparta...Read More
Trade log for cobalt sulfate in China including transactions, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets MB. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are yuan per tonne on an ex-works basis.The cobalt sulfate, Co 20.5% min, China ex-works, adjustment to the low-grade cobalt low-end price at Co 20.5% basis is on a $ per lb basis.Fastmarkets MB prices Click here for...Read More
We have published the latest edition of Canadian Insider Insights. This week, we draw on our Market INK report commentary to explain why we see gold shining the brightest among mining stocks.Gold insiders are behaving like a bull market is onClick here to read the issue for the week of March 4th (registration is not required). Read More
Monday, the Honourable Jane Philpott MD, the President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government, resigned from the Trudeau government over the handling of the SNC Lavalin affair. Read her full statement below.Office of the Prime Minister80 Wellington Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5K9Attention: The Right Honourable Justin TrudeauMarch 4, 2019Dear Prime Minister,It is an enormous privilege...Read More
The prices for hot-rolled coil imported into the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have fallen over the past week, with the prices for other flat steel products moving in the opposite direction, but buying activity for all such materials has remained limited, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday March 5.Deals were scarce because end-user demand was still weak, sources told Fastmarkets.In addition, sto...Read More