PLNT stock is lower after the company's rare revenue missPlanet Fitness Inc (NYSE:PLNT) is bracing for a 4.5% drop out of the gate, after the fitness center operator reported a first-quarter revenue miss -- its first in at least eight quarters. Specifically, revenue rose 22.7% in the first three months of the year to $148.8 million, below the $153.4 million expected by analysts. PLNT's adjusted fi...Read More
These record US stock-market levels are very dangerous, riddled with extreme levels of euphoria and complacency. Largely thanks to the Fed, traders are convinced stocks can rally indefinitely. But stock prices are very expensive relative to underlying corporate earnings, with valuations back up near bubble levels. These are classic topping signs, with profits growth stalling and the Fed...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerNotwithstanding today's absurdly phony and propagandistic employment report, it's becoming more apparent by the week that the Fed and the U.S. Government are once again preparing to print more money. I don't know when the Fed will revert to more QE but I would argue that the intense effort by the banks to use the Comex as a conduit to control the price of gold is a probable sign...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinLow $1,260's support on gold...Read More
"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow..."By their right arms the conquest must be wrought."So wrote Lord Byron of Greece's war of independence against the Turks, though the famed British poet would ignore his own counsel and die just days after arriving in Greece to join the struggle.Yet Byron's advice is the wise course for the United States, and for the people of Venezuela who see...Read More
Sometimes we're blessed not to possess insider information. Several pointed examples surfaced in the last few days. If we had known, for instance, that Fed Chairman Powell would tell the world on Wednesday that the U.S. economy is holding steady as a rock and that no changes are contemplated in monetary policy, we'd have jumped on call options a day earlier. Lo, the Dow began a 500-point plunge...Read More
The pig iron market in the United States was under pressure from lower prices for high-phosphorous material from Brazil, while supplies of low-phosphorous material continued to be restricted, Fastmarkets heard on Friday May 3."The only thing really dragging pig iron [prices] down is the weak domestic [pig iron] market in Brazil and the lack of markets for high phosphorous material," one buyer in t...Read More
Investing.com - Gold prices traded near flat on Friday in Asia as traders remained cautious after the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to keep interest rate decision unchanged.Gold futures for June delivery, traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, was largely unchanged at $1,272.85 per ounce.The yellow metal recorded its biggest one-day percentage decline in more than two...Read More
In 2018, global gold mining companies' average all-in sustaining costs (AISC) fell 6% across the board as miners reacted to a gold price in steady decline for most of the year.The AISC metric serve as a benchmark of a mine's operating efficiency. They provide a more comprehensive look at mine economics than the traditional "cash costs" approach that many companies may interpret arbitrarily - and i...Read More
The dip in tin prices over the past two months reflects technical factors and a drop in semiconductor sales but a rebound is hard to envision despite an largely solid fundamental backdrop.Weakness in the global semiconductor sector has contributed to an 11% drop in the LME three-month tin price since mid-April - the sharpest fall across the base metals.The three-month price fell just 2.9% in 2018...Read More
Aluminium's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange fell over 1% at the close of trading on Friday May 3, with downward pressure emerging amid more than 230,000 tonnes of inflows over the week, while continued US dollar strength deters investors. Aluminium registered just over 10,000 lots traded at the close this afternoon, the lowest count since April 25, with thin volumes persisting due t...Read More
This recent drop in copper prices is not reflective of the current tight supply and demand fundamentals and a rebound could take place as soon as next week, Codelco's chief commercial officer Roberto Ecclefield told Fastmarkets on Friday May 3."Once China re-opens on Monday, we should see copper prices rebound," Ecclefield said in an interview. "The current price doesn't reflect fundamentals."Mark...Read More
The dip in tin prices over the past two months reflects technical factors and a drop in semiconductor sales but a rebound is hard to envision despite an largely solid fundamental backdrop.Weakness in the global semiconductor sector has contributed to an 11% drop in the LME three-month tin price since mid-April - the sharpest fall across the base metals.The three-month price fell just 2.9% in 2018...Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSSChris Marcus joins us for Metals & Markets this week, and we take a deep dive into the silver price manipulation saga and a whole lot more...Chris Marcus of Arcadia Economics interviewed by James Anderson for SD Bullion Silver and gold had a somewhat volatile week in fiat price action.With both monet...Read More
SD Friday Wrap: Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Silver had all the ingredients for an explosive move, but it turned out to be a dud. Here's why...I think we've seen the bottom in silver.With a low print of $14.57 yesterday, that's close enough to my downside target to go ahead and make the call.Of course, I was also calling for an explosive move to the upside, and I was wrong, but, generally speaking, wi...Read More
The last time the silver's bid-ask spread spiked up was April, 2006, and the price of silver was rising. What's going on right now? Here's Keith Weiner...by Keith Weiner of Monetary MetalsThe bid-ask spread of both (spot) gold and silver has blown out. Both, on March 1. In gold, the spread had been humming along around 13 cents-gold is the most marketable commodity, and this is the proof, a bid...Read More
Gold futures ended lower on Wednesday, giving back a portion of the gains from a day earlier as U.S. benchmark stock indexes moved higher. Futures added to losses after briefly popping higher in electronic trading in the immediate wake of the Federal Reserve's policy update, as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell held a news conference. The central bank's Federal Open Market Committee left its short-term f...Read More
Global ferrous scrap prices trended downward in the week ended Friday May 3 due to low demand and high inventories held by steel mills.There was mixed sentiment about spot price trends. While most market participants expected a continued softening of prices, others expected prices to become firmer once holidays in Europe, Turkey, Japan and China came to an end. Weak steel markets in Turkey damp de...Read More
Sweden's Boliden on Friday reported first-quarter core earnings slightly above analysts forecasts, and said production in the quarter had been stable both in its mines and its smelters.Operating profit, excluding revaluation of process inventory, fell to 2.05 billion Swedish crowns from 2.72 billion a year earlier, beating the 1.99 billion seen by analysts in a Reuters poll."The period can be summ...Read More
Companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo will have to ensure subcontractors they hire are domestically owned under rules being implemented by the government.The requirement adds to the raft of new measures mining companies have had to contend with over the past year, after the state in March 2018 raised taxes and other costs. Investors including Glencore Plc, Randgold Resources Ltd., China Mo...Read More