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
Sep 20, 2019 Guest(s): Tom Palmer Incoming CEO, Newmont Goldcorp Tom Palmer, currently COO of Newmont Goldcorp, will assume the role of CEO and helm the world's largest gold miner as of October 1, 2019. Palmer, who has worked for Rio Tinto for 20 years before joining Newmont Goldcorp as COO, hails from a family with a long mining history, and plans to focus on maximizing synergies from the last...Read More
Sep 20, 2019 Guest(s): E.B. Tucker Director, Metalla Royalty & Streaming E.B. Tucker, director of Metalla Royalty & Streaming, doubled down on his bet earlier this year that gold would eventually rise to $1,500, an now he's betting that silver will hit $20 in the next two months. "Right now, we want to trade silver up to $20. We think gold is going to stabilize at $1,500 and we see silver mo...Read More
The three-month lead price on the London Metal Exchange rose by 1.2% at the close of trading on Friday September 20, climbing beyond the $2,100 per tonne support level, while forward spreads in LME nickel tightened over the afternoon. Lead futures closed at $2,120 per tonne, its highest closing price since March, while just under 4,000 lots were exchanged by the close. Reports of a restart at Nyrs...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their latest price moves.Read More
Uptrends in the spot aluminium premiums in Rotterdam have faltered with backwardations in the London Metal Exchange December/three-month and January/three-month spreads starting to put material pressure on the physical market. Fastmarkets assessed the benchmark aluminium P1020A premium, in-whs dup Rotterdam at $100-110 per tonne on Friday September 20 from $105-115 per tonne the day before wh...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesSep 20, 2019 The Federal Reserve's endless machinations really affect the gold price, sometimes confounding traders with seeming illogicalness. This week the Fed cut rates again, which has really boosted gold in the past. Yet it plunged 1.7% in less than an hour after this latest decision! While gold's Fed reactions often look capricious, there's a method to this madness. Trad...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their latest price moves.Read More
The multi-national miner has been "left behind in a gold rally" this year compared with its peers - down 23% versus the ASX 200 gold index gaining 40% - but according to UBS, it could make upRead More
"The export levy adversely impacts the outlook for Kagem, with its cash generation and profitability being drastically reduced," Gemfields says in its H1 results.Read More
A share purchase plan to raise an additional $2 million will also open to give smaller investors a chance to buy in at the same issue price of 23c, an 8% discount to the last closing price of 25c. Swick boss and major shareholder Kent Swick said the company was well placed for growth this financial year with a strong order book worth more than $350 million. "We are also seeing additional...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 341,51158,91265,382163,008481,407569,901605,701 Change from Prior Reporting Period 7,397-5,4774,3456,94719,73518,68918,603 Traders 21167785256291177 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 61,08925,289630,990 -2,452-2,36616,237 non report...Read More
The Federal Reserve's endless machinations really affect the gold price, sometimes confounding traders with seeming illogicalness. This week the Fed cut rates again, which has really boosted gold in the past. Yet it plunged 1.7% in less than an hour after this latest decision! While gold's Fed reactions often look capricious, there's a method to this madness. Traders need to understand...Read More
Michael Pento Ph.D. & Chris Waltzek Ph.D. - September 19th, 2019. * .Mp3 format.HighlightsMichael Pento, President and Founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies LLC returns to Goldseek.com. The duo concur that the US PODUS is attempting improve the position of the domestic economy. The EU and related economies may be on the cusp of a new Great Recession. The EU enacted QE operations via 20 bil...Read More
Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. Please click here now. The Fed just cut interest rates again. It also cut the rate it pays banks on their excess reserves. 2. What does this mean for gold? Well, the 30basis point cut on excess reserves is bigger than the 25basis point cut on the fed funds rate. That could incentivize banks to loan money to the private sector rather...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold in a correction but on a weekly basis remains in an up-thrust, but I am concerned gold is challenging short-term lows..Read More
Diego Zanuso will begin a transition plan to take over as chief executive officer of Evraz' trading arm, Switzerland-based East Metals AG, while the current East Metals chief executive officer Joe Vazquez is set to retire as of July 2020.Zanuso has spent 12 years with Evraz, most recently serving as the global head of vanadium sales since...Read More
In a statement last week, the court said it would carry out control on a "case by case" basis, regarding the origin of popular consultations on mining, analysing whether these violated rights or implied reforms to the constitution, and if they met the requirements of loyalty, clarity and transparency required by law to guarantee the rights of voters.It said the applications by the prefect of the A...Read More
Chinese nickel consumers may be deterred from guaranteeing long-term ore supply by investing in Philippine ore production, delegates said during a panel discussion at the 18th International Stainless and Special Steel Summit in Seville, Spain, on Wednesday September 18.This is despite prevailing opinion that Philippine material is more easily refined and cost effective than Chinese nickel pig iron...Read More
Questions about the fate of stocks held by the defunct Fanya Metal Exchange have been a weight on negotiations in many minor metals markets since the bourse collapsed in 2015, and have contributed to the uncertainty that has stifled trade for much of 2019.Buying appetite in the spot market has weakened, and prices for some minor metals including indium, bismuth and antimony have reached multi...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and their latest price moves.Read More