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
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday October 22 that are worth another look....Read More
China's domestic rebar prices dropped slightly on Monday October 26 on high, but declining, inventories.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,700-3,730 yuan ($554-558) per tonne, down by 10 yuan per tonneChina Iron & Steel Association reported that rebar stock in China's major markets was about 6.33 million tonnes in mid-October, down by 6.2% from earlier in the month but till 30% higher than the 4....Read More
Import prices for steel scrap in China were unchanged on Tuesday May 25, with the country's finished steel market crashing in response to a meeting held by the Chinese government on Sunday May 23 that put more emphasis on stability in the commodities sector.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for steel scrap, heavy recycled steel materials, cfr China, which takes into account prices at ports in ea...Read More
The zinc concentrate market remained broadly stable in the fortnight to Friday September 10, with smelters and traders reporting a quiet period but also a continued uptrend on treatment charges since August.Zinc spot concentrate TC, cif China was assessed at $75-92 per tonne on Friday, with the top end of the range rising by $2 since August 27.Smelters had reserved enough concentrate for the...Read More
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The Diamond Producers Association (DPA) launched an expanded offering of educational assets available to the jewelry trade at JCK Las Vegas. The new asset package includes a free social media asset library that will be expanded regularly to help retailers feed their digital channels with fresh, insightful and compelling content for consumers. The social media asset mix includes both st...Read More
Turkish domestic long steel prices have continued to weaken over the past week due to limited demand from the construction sector in particular, sources said on Thursday December 13.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic rebar in Turkey was at TRY2,880-2,950 ($538-551) per tonne ex-works, including 18% VAT, down from last week's TRY2,900-3,000 per tonne.The local sales prices for r...Read More
Joe Cavatoni of @worldgoldcouncil discusses gold's ongoing price run, highlighting its key role in risk diversification. He also ...Read More
Live stream the Silver Tiger Metals Inc. (OTCQX: SLVTF | TSXV: SLVR) presentation from the December 10-11 Precious Metals ...Read More
Newsletter writer Stewart Thomson addresses the question: Are CDNX junior miners now the worlds best investment?All lights are green . . . for the CDNX junior mine stocks machine!Here's a key chart highlighting today's exciting action: The technical action is fantastic; a Stochastics buy signal is in play in the momentum zone, and now there's a MACD buy signal too.All that's needed for a "technic...Read More
"Surface Channel Sampling at Nava Zone Returns Wide Gold Intersection 40 m at 0.7 g/t Au Including 6.0 m @1.9 g/t Au @goldplay_gply https://t.co/vhpsWkzcJY"Read full newsRead More
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Democratic Republic of Congo revised down its estimate of cobalt production for the first nine months of 2018, to 81,292 tonnes from an earlier estimate of 115,116 tonnes, central bank data showed on Friday.The revision means that output of cobalt, an important component of electric car batteries, rose 35.9 percent compared to the same period in 2017, rather than 92.5 percent as the bank said prev...Read More
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Iranian export prices for steel billet and slab have been mostly stable in the week to Wednesday September 25, with some deals heard for billet, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday.Iranian producers were offering billet at $350-360 per tonne fob, and deals totalling 200,000 tonnes were heard to China at $385-395 per tonne cfr. This price would be equivalent to $345-355 per tonne fob.A further...Read More
In this three-way conversation, Raoul speaks with Mark and Tim on the currency that we should prioritize higher-- time.Read More
Top Asian steelmakers will continue hiking hot-rolled coil (HRC) prices in the second quarter of this year due to continued strong demand in the region, a leading Japanese steel mill told Fastmarkets MB this week."Tier-1 mills in South Korea, China, Japan and Vietnam see many reasons to increase their offers in the second quarter of 2019, including strong seasonal demand from end users," a source...Read More
There are tremendous opportunities for manganese and vanadium in the global trend of electrifications, and the battery sector will outpace the steel industry in terms of boosting demand growth for those materials, delegates heard at Fastmarkets' International Ferro-alloys virtual conference on Tuesday November 10. Competitive cost and comparatively diverse supply are likely to dictate the shift in...Read More
Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have eased somewhat after soaring to a record high one week ago.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $55.51 per hundredweight ($1,110.20 per short ton) on Thursday January 21, down by 1.02% from $56.08 per cwt the previous day and a decrease of 4.29% from a historic high of $58 per cwt one week earlier. Input...Read More
Can a culture divorce itself from its currency? We are not half so convinced that it can.That is one reason we fear for the American future.We fear its currency is anchored to its culture - a declining culture, by our lights - a culture run to strange and often preposterous settings.It is only proper that this low and debased culture merits a debased currency - the debased dollar.Let us then consi...Read More