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
One needs to keep on booking profit as long as gold does not break $1633.80 and silver does not break $1882.90. There is a big technical resistance between $1633.80-$1648.50 and $1663.30. For gold to rise to $1900-$2000 for the rest of the year, it has to break and trade over $1633.80-$1648.50-$1663.30 zone. Why am writing this? This is always a slip between the cup and the lip. The Lip here is...Read More
"We advise the U.S. side not to underestimate the Chinese side's ability to safeguard its development rights and interests. Don't say we didn't warn you."That was a chilling message from the Chinese government sent to the U.S. in May 2019. At the time, we had no idea how serious this threat was. Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Trump had been locked in a years-long trade squabble t...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday October 1 that are worth another look.The fast steel market recovery seen in Brazil in the past few months has led the country's steelmaker association, Instituto A??o Brasil, to revise its forecasts for 2020 up significantly from previous expectations set...Read More
Trump has already exerted more influence over one institution than any other president in over 100 years - the Federal Reserve.That's because Trump has had more control over Fed personnel than any president since the Fed was founded in 1913. As I've written before, Trump now "owns" the Fed.When Trump was sworn in, he inherited two vacant seats on the seven-person board of governors of the Federal...Read More
The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade, in-whs...Read More
After getting off to aslow start in this upleg, gold miners’ stocks are beginning to catch up withtheir metal. Gold stocks laggeddreadfully early on, but are increasingly outperforming in gold’s remarkablebreakout surge of recent months. Thesemounting gold-stock gains are boosting bullish sentiment, attracting in moretraders accelerating the upside. Thisvirtuous circl...Read More
Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) expects production to significantly increase over the next five years thanks to the addition of the Skouries gold-copper mine in northern Greece.The company's board approved in December a full restart of construction activities at Skouries, which has reserves of 3.7 million oz. of gold and 1.7 billion lb. of copper (147.1 million tonnes grading 0.77 gram gold pe...Read More
The Eleonore gold mine 320 km north of Matagami in the James Bay region of Quebec. Source: Goldcorp Inc.Newmont Mining Corp. [NEM-NYSE] shareholders have approved the company's $10 billion takeover of Goldcorp Inc. [G-TSX; GG-NYSE]. The combined company, called Newmont Goldcorp., will rank as the world's biggest gold producer with assets across the Americas, Africa and Australia.About 98% of votes...Read More
Right now, we're witnessing one of the greatest wealth shifts in history and millions of people are being wiped out financially.Read More
The atmosphere at the Cesco copper industry gathering in Santiago, Chile, next week is expected to be lifted by a bullish outlook for the red metal. The South American gathering is traditionally characterized by strong attendance by miners, due in part to its proximity to the largest copper mines in the world. As a result, delegates will have a keen focus on factors that could affect the upstream...Read More
The global pig iron market remained strong, but activity was limited during the week to Thursday December 31 due to the end-of-year holiday period.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for high-manganese pig iron, export, fob main port Black Sea, CIS was $530 per tonne on Thursday, up by 5% from $500-510 per tonne a week earlier.Pig iron exporters from the Commonwealth...Read More
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(IDEX Online) - De Beers today announced slower sales during Cycle 2, down 24 per cent on last year, as uncertainty persists and many sightholders delayed purchases. Total sales were $495m (provisional) compared with $652m during Cycle 2 of 2022. They were up nine per cent on the previous Cycle. De Beers reportedly raised the prices of smaller goods at its latest sight, amid speculat...Read More
RAPAPORT... Chow Tai Fook saw sales decline in the fourth fiscal quarter as the latest surge of Covid-19 infections impacted retail in China and Hong Kong. The jeweler's retail sales value climbed 8.5% year on year for the three months that ended March 31, but that was a sharp drop from the 31% growth it had registered in the previous quarter. Revenue rose nearly 12% on the mainland, but fell...Read More
A 14,350-tonne fresh cancellation of aluminium in London Metal Exchange-approved Asian sheds, as of 9am on Friday May 22, kept the metal's three-month price above thepsychological level of $1,500-tonne.The light metal's LME three-month contract was trading at around $1,506.50 per tonne during morning trading, down from the previous day's $1,521-per-tonne close.LME aluminium futures breached $1,500...Read More
Company is in the final stages of determining drill targets. Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) announced in a news release it is finalizing targets for its maiden drill program at its Snowstorm project in Northern Nevada, scheduled to commence before the end of Q3/19.Located 6 kilometers (6 km) and 15 km southwest of Snowstorm, respectively, are the high-grade Twin Creeks and Turquoise R...Read More
The biggest trading volume in copper call options on record signals supply troubles brewing in the market.A spread trade worth $6.5 million was posted just after 7 a.m. on Comex in New York in a bet that the price of the metal used in wires and pipes will surge past $3.05 in a few months, from Monday's settlement price of $2.909.Copper production will trail consumption by 116,000 metric tons this...Read More
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 11/11/21Gold is back above $1,850/oz again and we are getting more data that central banks in Russia and India are buying more gold. Indian Central Bank Accumulating Large Quantities of Gold almost under the Radar https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ron...Gold demand in India is set to rise thanks to inflation and higher income levels https://timesofindia.indiatime...Read More
The Mining Code was amended in February, the Water Code in late March, a mining royalty is likely to be imposed in the coming months and a process to draft a new constitution is likely to strengthen environmental laws.Despite the current uncertainites regarding future mining regulation and taxation, Chile continues to draw investment. "We have seen a number of deals recently with South32 [which bo...Read More
The gold price tends to rise in times of crisis, but according to Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer at US Global Investors, the yellow metal has the potential to go much higher even without a major calamity.Speaking at the Denver Gold Forum, Holmes explained that worldwide money printing triggered by attempts to stimulate economic activity could lead to a substantial gold price increa...Read More