Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome back Francesco Filia to MacroVoices. Erik and Francesco discuss bear markets, complex dynamic systems, and the phase transitions and the twin bubbles. The continue discussing tipping points, crash hallmarks and butterflies. They ask why are the risks now and will treasury bonds going to be the benefactor? The end asking how to play the short side of the ma...Read More
The world's two biggest gold miners both announced mega-mergers over the past 5 months or so. These huge deals briefly garnered some interest in the usually-forgotten gold-stock sector, and fleeting praise from Wall Street analysts. But gold-stock mega-mergers are bad news for gold-miner shareholders on all sides. They reveal the serious struggles of major gold miners, and really retard future ups...Read More
An independent investigation has concluded that the "MAGA Teens" in the Covington scandal did not engage in hateful conduct, they did not confront Nathan Phillips, and ultimately did nothing wrong. We also learned that one of the offensive statements heard on video was made by a young man who did NOT attend Covington Catholic.Many media outlets are far left publications however have not corrected...Read More
* Gold prices in India trading near record levels* Yen-denominated gold climbs to 1-year peak* China premiums ease to $7-$10/ozA rally in domestic prices curtailed physical gold demand in India and Japan, with interest in the precious metal lacklustre in other Asian centres as markets gradually return from the Lunar New Year holidays.In India, gold traded around 34,400 rupees per 10 grams, not far...Read More
Indian domestic secondary billet prices have increased by at least 500 rupees ($7) per tonne over the past week, mainly on rising prices for finished products such as rebar, Fastmarkets heard on Friday February 15.The Indian domestic secondary billet price assessed by Fastmarkets on February 15 was 34,300-34,500 rupees ($483-486) per tonne ex-mill, up by 500 rupees per tonne compared with 33,800-3...Read More
Relatives of trapped illegal Zimbabwean gold miners on Friday expressed frustration at the slow pace of rescue efforts, saying they were losing hope of finding up to 70 people alive as the government declared the accident a disaster.Rescuers in Battlefields, 175 km (109 miles) west of Harare, had hoped to start bringing the miners out by Friday afternoon but the amount of water in the pits and und...Read More
Africa-focused gold miner Centamin (LON:CEY) (TSX:CEE) said Friday that drilling activities at its Doropo licence in C??te d'Ivoire resulted in more than double the mineral resources estimated for the area, which remains largely underexplored, with numerous targets identified.The Doropo mineral resource grew to 2.13m ounces at 1.31 grams per tonne of gold in the indicated category, up 58% from la...Read More
People who assumed the Fed, along with the rest of the government, would cave the minute the financial markets got a little choppy turned out to be right. A couple of bad months Continue...Read More
Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR) resumed diamond drilling at its wholly-owned Croinor Gold property, where activities were suspended following a winter freeze that affected Quebec's Val-d'Or region.In a press release, the Canadian company said the purpose of the current 1,750-metre campaign is to finish the 2018 drilling program and to drill high potential targets.Monarch said that before it was suspended,...Read More
In the land of the Federal Reserve and its market-manipulating mechanisms, there's now an unofficial market term called the "Powell Put" or the "Powell Pivot."Continue...Read More
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"They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now. Whole project is a 'green' disaster!"Continue...Read More
Russian authorities and major telecom operators are preparing to disconnect the country from the world wide web as part of an exercise to prepare for future cyber attacks, Continue...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne, Founder of The Daily Gold shares his insights on how the US markets and USD are holding the PM prices in check. He outlines what needs to happen for gold to break to the upside. We also spend some time on the gold to US markets and gold to silver charts.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. He is the publisher an...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices maintained their downward trend on Friday February 15 amid little market activity. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,700-3,750 yuan ($546-554) per tonne, down 30-50 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,790-3,830 yuan per tonne, widened down 10 yuan per tonneLosses in the futures market led to bearish sentiment on the spot market. Buyers cut...Read More
The price of austenitic alloy steel scrap imported into Europe decreased on Friday February 15 because of lower nickel prices, Fastmarkets has heard.The price of 18/8 steel scrap solids imports was assessed on Friday at ?,?1,000-1,040 ($1,128-1,173) per tonne cif, narrowing downward by ?,?10 per tonne.The modest scale of the price change was related to the fact that nickel prices only began decrea...Read More
Pig iron buyers in the United States have resumed purchases at higher prices, Fastmarkets learned on Friday February 15.Fastmarkets' import price assessment for pig iron in the US was at $355-360 per tonne cfr on Friday February 15, narrowing upward by $5 per tonne week on week.One deal for pig iron from the Commonwealth of Independent States was heard around $355 per tonne cfr early in the w...Read More
Domestic prices for ferrous scrap in Italy moved up in February following the positive trend settled in the international scrap markets, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday February 15.Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for domestic grade E3 scrap in Italy was ?,?270-290 ($306-327) per tonne delivered on Friday February 15, compared with ?,?260-280 per tonne delivered in January."The upward tren...Read More
Stock buyers applauded seemingly upbeat trade talksThe Dow rallied today for a huge win, thanks to hopes that U.S.-China trade talks are on the right course. Wall Street was undisturbed by President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency to gain funds for a border wall, as the Nasdaq and S&P 500 rose, as well. Bank stocks were some of the biggest advancers, helping guide the Dow and the Nasda...Read More
Indian domestic secondary billet prices have increased by at least 500 rupees ($7) per tonne over the past week, mainly on rising prices for finished products such as rebar, Fastmarkets heard on Friday February 15.The Indian domestic secondary billet price assessed by Fastmarkets on February 15 was 34,300-34,500 rupees ($483-486) per tonne ex-mill, up by 500 rupees per tonne compared with 33,800-3...Read More