Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended lower as shares of 3M (MMM - Get Report) plunged following an earnings miss and after the company said it would cut 2,000 jobs. Shares of Microsoft (MSFT - Get Report) climbed after beating Wall Street's third-quarter earnings expectations. Comcast (CMCSA - Get Report) was rising...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower at the close of trading on Thursday April 25, with the upward price action capped by broad strength in the US dollar index, while fresh cancelations fail to galvanize lackluster price action. Copper's three-month price fell to a low of $6,355 per tonne over the afternoon, its lowest price since March 27 amid an uptick in the US doll...Read More
Comex copper prices failed to maintain the previous day's gains amid a surging dollar on Thursday April 25, which is putting downward pressure on most of the base metals prices. The copper price for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange tumbled 3.8 cents to $2.8720 per lb. The red metal has been unable to set a clear price direction over the past few weeks, with...Read More
A summary of Nornickel's production results for the first quarter of 2019 between January and March.IN BRIEF: First-quarter copper production for 2019 was up 13% year on year to 127,000 tonnes as a result of a production ramp-up at the Bystrinsky (Chita Copper) Project in Chita, Sibera.2019 first-quarter nickel production exceeded that of 2018...Read More
Australia-based King Island Scheelite has signed an offtake agreement for tungsten concentrate with Austrian producer of refined tungsten Wolfram Bergbau und Hutten AG (WBH), it announced this month. The offtake agreement is for the delivery of 140,000 metric tonne units (mtu) of tungsten trioxide in concentrate, or 1,400 tonnes of tungsten trioxide over a four-year period. This equates to the exp...Read More
Falling UG2 chrome ore prices in April have been partly caused by ferro-chrome smelters in China selling their raw material back to the market, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets' UG2 chrome ore index, cif China, has dropped every week so far in April and stands at $169 per tonne as of Tuesday April 23, down from $186 per tonne on March 29. The smelters are understood to have bought too much ma...Read More
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OM Manganese will spend as much as A$7.3 million ($5.2 million) to establish a manganese ore joint venture in Western Australia with copper-gold-manganese explorer Bryah Resources.Under the agreement, OM Manganese, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Australia-listed mining and metallurgical group OM Holdings (OMH), can earn an interest in as much as 70% of the mineral rights at the Bryah Basin...Read More
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Alloy-grade cobalt prices maintained their premium over standard-grade during the first half of this week amid a limited supply of cut cathode for spot market inquiries. Fastmarkets assessed the standard-grade cobalt price at $15.90-16.95 per lb, in-warehouse, on Wednesday April 24, up 1.5% from the previous week's assessment. Alloy-grade metal continued to trade at a premium but saw sli...Read More
China National Corporation for Overseas Economic Cooperation (CCOEC) won 34.64 tonnes of indium in Fanya Metal Exchange's second auction - ended at 10am Beijing time on Thursday April 25 - Fastmarkets understands from the official auction result posted on the Alibaba judicial online platform.As the only bidder at the auction, CCOEC took the indium at a price of 37.4112 million yuan ($5.57 million)...Read More
The Turkish steel producers have continued their silence in the deep-sea scrap markets because of the low levels of demand for finished steel in both the export and domestic markets, sources said on Thursday April 25.Some suppliers in the Baltic Sea region were offering HMS 1&2 (80:20) at prices around $310 per tonne cfr, but the mills were not willing to buy any scrap cargoes before selling some...Read More
Underground at a Discovery Metals project. Source: Discovery Metals Corp.Discovery Metals Corp. [DSV-TSXV; AYYBF-OTC] on Thursday April 25 announced details of an amended property option agreement related to its Puerto Rico polymetallic project, which is located in Coahuila State, Mexico.The company also said it has concurrently signed a 30-year exploration and mining agreement with the Boquillas...Read More
Major Chinese steelmaker Maanshan Iron & Steel (Magang) hopes to lead the overhaul of the Chinese ferrous scrap market by pioneering a domestic pilot project, group vice president Chen Zhaoqi said at the 12th China International Metal Recycling Conference 2019 in Zhuhai, China on April 25.Magang is planning 10 million tonnes per year of new ferrous scrap capacity across 10 ferrous scrap processing...Read More
The 1,758-carat diamond recovered from Lucara Diamond's Karowe diamond mine in Botswana. Source: Lucara Diamond Corp.Lucara Diamond Corp. [LUC-TSX; LUCRF-OTC] said Thursday April 25 that it has recovered 1,758-carat diamond from its 100%-owned Karowe diamond mine in BotswanaOne of the largest diamonds in recorded history, the largest diamond recovered in Botswana, and the largest diamond to be min...Read More
(Updates with closing prices)By Peter HobsonLONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Copper prices fell on Thursdayas worries over the global economic outlook increased and theU.S. dollar hit its strongest in almost two years, making metalsmore expensive for buyers with other currencies.Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME)ended down 1.3 percent at $6,364 a tonne after touching itslowest since M...Read More
Japan has increased its ferrous scrap exports to non-traditional markets on expectations of an oversupply of ferrous scrap from 2020 after the current wave of demand from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games ends, Genkichi Ando, chairman of the international network committee from the Japan Iron & Steel Recycling Institute, said this week.Japan started ferrous scrap exports to countries such as Bangladesh...Read More
A summary of Nornickel's production results for the first quarter of 2019 between January and March.IN BRIEF: First-quarter copper production for 2019 was up 13% year on year to 127,000 tonnes as a result of a production ramp-up at the Bystrinsky (Chita Copper) Project in Chita, Sibera.2019 first-quarter nickel production exceeded that of 2018...Read More
Gold futures ended higher on Wednesday, rebounding from their lowest levels of the year, as a rally in stocks that took two of the three main U.S. equity indexes to records cooled, providing support for the haven metal. However, a perky dollar - hovering around its highest level in about 22 months - kept prices for the metal off the session's high. Gold for June delivery GCM9, +0.09% rose $6.20...Read More
(Adds close of U.S. markets) * 3M Co, Nokia results weigh on global equities * Dollar gains against euro on U.S. capital goods data * Brent crude surges past $75 barrel, then settles lower * Graphic: World FX rates in 2019 By Herbert LashNEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - The dollar rose to almost atwo-year high against the euro on Thursday on an upbeat U.S.capital goods report, while world equities s...Read More