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
Domestic price sentiment for hot-dipped galvanized coil (HDG) in Europe has continued to be negative in the week ended Thursday September 19 due to slow market activity, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel HDG, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was unchanged over the week at ?,?550-570 ($608-630) per tonne ex-works on September 19, reflecting the latest deals...Read More
Brazilian import volumes of flat and long steel displayed opposite tendencies in August, according to figures from the country's economy ministry published last week.Import volumes of flat steel declined year on year by 11.29% to 95,116 tonnes in the month, from 107,216 tonnes, mostly because of lower volumes imported from China.Imports of flat steel from China fell to 41,950 tonnes in August 2019...Read More
- Patrick ByrneDear Erstwhile Teammates, As you will learn from an SEC filing today, over this past week all my shares in OSTK were sold. Before I left for Australia I put it all in the hands of Mr. Pettway (whom some of you know), for it had already become clear to me that this was the right thing to do (and I decided to come SCUBA-diving in Asia so as to be as far...Read More
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Ayn RandSomething big is happening beneath the surface of a Dow and S&P 500 trading near all-time highs. The soaring repo rate, more demand for overnight Fed funding loans than is being supplied and a big move in the price of gold since the end of May are clear indicators.The global financial system is unsusta...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Delighted as we all may be with this week's news -- the new indictments of JPMorganChase employees involved with the gold market, the U.S. Justice Department's designation of the investment bank as a criminal enterprise, and the prospects of more indictments -- GATA has to admit a couple of things about the situation.First, the market manipulation of which the bank's...Read More
Gary Christenson, Deviant InvestorFrom Ralph Waldo Emerson: "It's not the destination, it's the journey."His insight applies in life, investing, analysis, the S&P 500 Index, gold, silver and others. Consider these examples.You have $10 million to invest in a business and are searching for a manager. CEO #1 and CEO #2 have both amassed a personal fortune over $100 million. Which one do you choose...Read More
The Fed's so-far $128 billion intervention in the repo market slipped off the Wall Street Journal's front page by evening, hardly a concern. Don't be surprised if, years from now, the squeeze on short-term borrowers that caused this flurry of excitement is cited as an early warning sign of the banking system's coming collapse. On Tuesday, there simply weren't enough dollars around to keep short...Read More
By: Gary SavageGold $1,450 / $1,480 as potential downside targets. Gold is just going to take some time to undergo intermediate correction..Read More
India has given the go-ahead to the state-owned Steel Authority of India (SAIL), to sell up to 7 million tonnes of iron ore annually , to maintain security of raw material supplies ahead of the expiration of 31 mining leases in the country next year. "The Ministry of Mines has allowed SAIL to offload in a year up to a quantity equivalent to [a] maximum [of] 25% of [the] total iron ore production i...Read More
Domestic price sentiment for hot-dipped galvanized coil (HDG) in Europe has continued to be negative in the week ended Thursday September 19 due to slow market activity, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel HDG, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was unchanged over the week at ?,?550-570 ($608-630) per tonne ex-works on September 19, reflecting the latest deals...Read More
Export prices for steel billet from the CIS region have been under pressure from weak demand and falling scrap prices internationally, market sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday September 19.Fastmarkets' daily steel billet index, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was $356 per tonne on September 19, unchanged day-on-day but down by $7 per tonne since the beginning of the week.A deal for Russia-origin bi...Read More
Base metals ended flat to lower on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday September 19- tin closed below $17,000 per tonne and copper below $5,800 per tonne.The three-month tin price ended at $16,457 per tonne this afternoon, its weakest close since August 30 and down from an intraday high of $16,895 per tonne - a drop of around 2% from Wednesday.Volumes were comparatively high - 593 lots changed h...Read More
The deep-sea scrap import market in Turkey was quiet again after earlier bookings of UK-origin cargoes sent prices down sharply, sources said on Thursday September 19.On Wednesday, two steel mills in the Iskenderun region booked UK cargoes at $228 per tonne cfr for HMS 1&2 (80:20).After these sales, the daily scrap indices went down by almost $10 per tonne on September 18.Steel producers and scrap...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday September 19 that are worth another look.Ramp-ups in Chinese nickel pig iron (NPI) production will not inhibit the use of traditional ferro-nickel in European stainless steel production, multinational miner Anglo American's head of business intelligence told Fastmarkets at the International Stainless and Special Steel Summit in...Read More
Following a flip in global steel and ferrous trade flow trends last year caused by economic jitters in Turkey, trade defenses by the United States and production cuts in China, this year it is steel prices that are turning upside down. Hot-rolled coil (HRC) prices are now below rebar prices in a phenomenon rarely seen outside of the Chinese domestic markets. HRC import prices in Vietnam have...Read More
Core consumer prices - which exclude volatile food and energy prices - rose to an 11-year high of 2.4 percent growth year on year.As much as $17 trillion in debt around the world right now trades at a negative yield.There are a number of geopolitical and economic risks right now that have triggered gold's "fear trade." Gold may be off its 52-week highs, but the precious metal is still up more...Read More
Gold reached highs in early September and took a break.A retreat on calm in trade, but Iran and the Middle East are supportive.Lots of room before technical support after the recent move.Bull markets suffer setbacks - interest rates are favorable.CEF holds London Good Delivery physical gold and silver bars.The gold market has calmed since reaching its most recent high at the beginning of September...Read More
Base metals ended flat to lower on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday September 19- tin closed below $17,000 per tonne and copper below $5,800 per tonne.The three-month tin price ended at $16,457 per tonne this afternoon, its weakest close since August 30 and down from an intraday high of $16,895 per tonne - a drop of around 2% from Wednesday.Volumes were comparatively high - 593 lots changed h...Read More
The availability of ample cargoes of seaborne premium mid-vol hard coking coal has raised the possibility of traders engaging in panic selling.Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $140.66 per tonne, down $3.42 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $161.43 per tonne, down $2.38 per tonneHard coking coal, fob DBCT: $122.50 per tonne, down $9.25 per tonneHard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $140...Read More
The bankers are supplying copious amounts of paper gold, but they're only nibbling at their silver shortfall. Here's why...by Harvey Organ of Harvey Organ BlogSEPT 18//FED OUT OF CONTROL: THEY LOWER RATES AT 1/4% BUT FAIL TO ADDRESS THE LIQUIDITY CRISIS IN THE MONEY MARKETS//LAST TWO DAYS HUGE SHORTAGE OF LIQUIDITY//GOLD ROSE $2.40 COMEX TO COMEX TO $1507.90/HOWEVER IN ACCESS MARKET IT CLOSED AT 1...Read More