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
Weekly Reports |Jun 12 2019The uranium spot price has posted its first weekly increase in almost two months.-Buyers Emerge-Uranium market remains fractured-Finland gets ambitiousBy Greg PeelAfter a long, steady decline in the spot uranium price in 2019 on section 232 uncertainty, buyers finally emerged from the woodwork last week in the form of both utilities and investors. While US utilities cont...Read More
Barrick Gold Corp has laid off more than half of its staff at the company's Toronto head office, while its long serving director Anthony Munk is stepping down, the Globe and Mail reported on Friday.Munk, who is Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk's son, has tendered his resignation, the report said.The laying off of nearly 95 employees comes as the Toronto-based company expects to complete its purchas...Read More
Appetites for steel scrap exports were broadly subdued in the week to Friday June 4, with the exception of imports into India and Pakistan.Turkey cooled its importing activity amid softer demand for finished steel, adjusting offers downwardPrices for cargoes from the East and West Coasts of the US divergedVietnamese importers stayed out of the market amid price-trend confusionChinese appetites wer...Read More
The apparel concern reported an earnings and revenue beat, but weak quarterly profit margins Outerwear manufacturer Canada Goose Inc (NYSE:GOOS) is down after stepping into the earnings confessional this morning and posting a second-quarter earnings and revenue beat, thought profit margins were weaker than expected. The company cited a higher portion of its sales going to department stores for the...Read More
The three-month price of zinc on the London Metal Exchange was the standout performer at the close of trading on Thursday October 22, making a steady approach toward resistance at the $2,600-per-tonne threshold.Copper futures were the laggard over the day, in spite of Wednesday's upsurge.Zinc's underlying price on the LME closed at $2,578.50 per tonne on Thursday afternoon, climbing from an intrad...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinMetals stay well bid into Wednesday's FOMC Monetary Policy Statement and Press Conference Ira Epstein reviews the days trading in the metal markets. For more information and access to Ira's free offers for commodity traders, visit https://www.iraepstein.com. Read More
Xin Guobin, Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), has urged regional officials to speed up the introduction of policies to boost automobile consumption. Speaking at a press conference during China's Manufacturing Industry Resumption Meeting on March 30, Xin said MIIT are "actively cooperating with relevant ministries and commissions to study policies and suggestions for st...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday March 20 that are worth another look.The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the world's top producer of cobalt and a key copper producer, has re-enacted an export ban on copper and cobalt concentrates, official documents obtained by Fastmarkets show.China's strict restrictions on scrap metal imports from the United States...Read More
With governments devaluing money and U.S. debt piling up, more investors are turning to gold and silver as safe havens.Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesDec 30, 2019In my experience everyone tends to make investing wisely way too complicated. Simple works, complicated doesn’t.I think the first site visit I went on was to a gold project in Xinjiang province in Western China over eighteen years ago. The gold bull was but a calf. Site visits had totally stopped after the Bre-X scandal in 1996. The sponsor of the trip manage...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe increased day on day on Thursday February 11 due to good demand and long lead times, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe at ?,?717 ($869.34) per tonne on February 11, up by ?,?8.67 per tonne from ?,?708.33 per tonne on Wednesday February 10.The index was also...Read More
Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis reveals that China’s crude stock (including strategic and commercial petroleum reserves) could reach 1.15 billion barrels in 2020, equivalent to 83 days of oil demand.Wood Mackenzie senior consultant Lei Sun said: “Major crude oil importers such as China have been known to build their strategic reserves when prices are low, as seen in previous oil...Read More
/PRNewswire/ - Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX) (NYSE American: EQX) (Read full newsRead More
Global zinc production is poised to rise over the coming years as elevated prices encourage miners to restart idled capacity and begin production at new mines.Using data provided by Miningintelligence, MINING.COM takes a look at the 10 biggest zinc producers in world in terms of their 2019 output.The Red Dog mine in Alaska, operated by Canada's Teck Resources, kept its "top dog" status with zinc p...Read More
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Fastmarkets' Ferrous Analytics report helps subscribers keep track of hot metal costs and steel production spreads in China, along with key pricing components of the steelmaking raw materials supply chain in Asia.Read More
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Pretium Resources "accomplished another profitable quarter," ending with $400.8M in-hand. Pretium's Brucejack MinePretium Resources Inc. (PVG:TSX; PVG:NYSE) announced in a news release its Q2/21 financial and operational results, highlighting that it is on track to meet full-year guidance and now its cash exceeds its debt."We accomplished another profitable quarter with $152.3 million ($152.3M) i...Read More
Nouveau Monde Graphite has arranged a non-brokered private placement with Pallinghurst Graphite that will raise C$10.3 million for continued work on the Matawinie graphite development project 150 km north of Montreal, Quebec. Pallinghurst has subscribed to purchase approximately 43.8 million common shares priced at C$0.235 per share.Nouveau Monde said it intends to close an earlier, C$11.7 million...Read More