Fastmarkets published its India domestic, export and import prices later than scheduled on Friday April 12, because of a technical issue.The following prices were published in Fastmarkets' price book later than scheduled.India domestic cold-rolled coil, rupees per tonne, ex-worksIndia domestic direct-reduced iron, rupees per tonne, exwIndia domestic heavy plate, rupees per tonne, exwIndia domestic...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 199,50794,14361,105132,478265,287393,090420,535 Change from Prior Reporting Period 5,723-5,0854,279-7,0367,5432,9666,737 Traders 19361815454277168 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 54,44927,004447,539 4,4036327,369 non reportable positionsChange fr...Read More
Gold has faded from interest in the past couple months, overshadowed by the monster stock-market rally. But gold has been consolidating high, quietly basing before its next challenge to major $1350 bull-market resistance. A decisive breakout above will really catch investors' attention, greatly improving sentiment and driving major capital inflows. With gold-futures speculators not very lo...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerGold and silver are historically undervalued relative to the stock and bond markets. The junior mining stocks overall are at their most undervalued relative to the price of gold since 2001. Gold's relative performance during the quarter, when the stock market had its best quarterly performance in many decades, is evidence of the underlying strength building in the precious metal...Read More
By: Stefan GleasonAs gold and silver markets continue in choppy trading this spring, bulls are hoping a dovish Fed will sink the dollar and lift the metals.Now that the Federal Reserve is on "pause" - presumably for the rest of 2019 - perhaps investors can stop obsessing over interest rate decisions by central planners. Perhaps markets can finally trade based on actual market signals and underly...Read More
Few people know the risks in today's economy and marketplace as much as David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Canadian wealth management firm Gluskin Sheff & Associates. For years he's educated investors with his popular "Breakfast with Dave" newsletter, which you can subscribe to here. He's also a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail and the Financial Post.Considered by many t...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold back into a down thrust. Higher high and lower low. Gold - there is no real story here right now. Read More
Gold got whacked Thursday as it so often does i.e., at the apex of a rally that may have encouraged a bullish thought or two in the minds of some investors. Alas, the worst selloff we've seen in well, it's actually been only two weeks socked the June contract with an $18 loss. In the accompanying chart, some might discern a head-and-shoulders kinda thing going on in the ups and downs of 20...Read More
By: Anne WilliamsonBeing a legend and living one are two very different things. Julian Assange, who is surely fated to become one of the legendary figures of our times no matter what his actual fate proves to be, is at the same time living The Legend of the Suram Fortress. The tale is a simple one that over the centuries nearly every Caucasian country has claimed as its own, but which origi...Read More
Dear Friends of the Ron Paul Institute: You are no doubt hearing quite a bit today about the arrest and likely extradition of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange, who was literally sold out for the proverbial 30 pieces of silver (or in this case it was a $4.2 billion IMF loan to Ecuador approved just last month)! Vice President Mike Pence was in Ecuador last June to push a quid pro quo with...Read More
By: SRSrocco The Middle East is heading for a crisis in its oil industry. Unfortunately, the market doesn't realize there is any danger on the horizon because it mainly focuses on how much oil the Middle East is producing rather than its exports. You see, it doesn't really matter how much oil a country produces but rather the amount of its net oil exports. A perfect example of this is Mexi...Read More
Billet producers in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have started to seek sales opportunities in Asia, considering the weak sentiment in their traditional markets in the Middle East-North Africa (Mena) region.A large cargo of Ukraine-origin billet was sold to South Asia at $440-445 per tonne fob Black Sea, Fastmarkets has learnt, which would be equivalent to $470-475 per tonne cfr.And...Read More
Vietnam veteran, author, and investor Bob Moriarty joins us to discuss his thoughts on American Empire. He says military adventurism signals a clear decline. We also talk false flag operations and media propaganda. Finally, he discusses the inevitable debt bubble, civil unrest, precious metals, cryptocurrencies, and some investing basics.Bob brought 321gold.com to the Internet almost 14 years ago....Read More
Capitalism created the greatest prosperity that the world had ever seen in early-America. But by the late 1800's, a litany of American presidents declared that the age of "laissez-faire" was over. Government would intervene into every corner of life. And..ever since...it has! The horrendous consequences of this are apparent to everyone. But there are now some people who are trying to shift the bla...Read More
A safeguarding investigation into imports of semi-finished iron products, non-alloy steel and steel rebar by Egypt's Ministry of Trade & Industry could lead to a fall in billet, rebar and scrap prices.Initiated on Tuesday April 2, the investigation is of particular concern to CIS producers as they are they main suppliers of billet Egyptian re-rollers, sources told Fastmark...Read More
Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome?EUR?Prof. Steve Keen?EUR?to MacroVoices. Erik and?EUR?Steve?EUR?discuss?EUR?possible benefits to US if the dollar loses its reserve currency status, its impacts on international trades and deindustrialization of US, and possible fiscal crisis and the increase of US Treasury Yields. They also touch on consequences of decrease in demand for US dollar, runawa...Read More
Do you have a gnawing sense that no matter which candidate or party gets into office, the same destructive games of deception, deceit, and evil design just keep accelerating? Are you concerned about being able to reach a real retirement, and that your children and grandchildren are being trapped into a future of inescapable debt and servitude?David Morgan, founder of TheMorganReport.com and known...Read More
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being detained in London's Belmarsh prison, a high-security facility which has housed some of Britain's Continue...Read More
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Shares in Coeur Mining (NYSE: CDE), the second largest primary silver producer in the US, took a 3.9% hit Thursday, after reporting that first quarter 2019 gold and silver production had decreased at three of its five mines. Friday's gold and silver spot prices were steady at $1,290.33 and $14.98 per ounce.Total production for the first quarter of the year was 78,336 ounces of gold, 2.5 million o...Read More