Mandated production cuts in northern China to reduce air pollution are likely to offset reduced demand caused by warmer weather in the country, market sources told Fastmarkets MB this week.While local authorities in Tangshan - China's steelmaking hub in the north - have ordered steelmakers to cut output to improve air quality, a move that typically supports prices, output is not expected to fall b...Read More
Most analysts are already bullish on the cannabis stockAlliance Global initiated coverage on Canopy Growth Corp (NYSE:CGC) with an upbeat "buy" rating, saying the Canada-based company can become the "global leader in cannabis," and called its buyout deal with Acreage Holdings a "critical game changer." This echoes the broader bias seen among the brokerage bunch, with eight of 11 analysts maintaini...Read More
Brazil's Vale expects to return to its previous iron ore output target of 400 million tonnes per year only in the next few years, due to setbacks following a tailings dam disaster in Brumadinho city, in the country's southeastern Minas Gerais state."If you ask when Vale expects to produce around 400 million tonnes [per year] again, I would say between 2-3 years," the Brazilian miner's chief financ...Read More
The pullback puts Nvidia below a $100 billion market capThe semiconductor sector is often one of the hardest hit when trade tensions with China are on the rise, and we're seeing that today after the Asian nation announced shortly before U.S. markets opened that it was increasing tariffs. One name to watch during these moment, especially this week, is GPU giant Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA). I s...Read More
China will implement import tariffs on over 5,000 types of United States' goods starting June 1, 2019, marking an escalation in the trade war between the two countries, the government announced on May 13.Last August, China said it would apply import tariffs of 25% on a series of US metal products including zinc and copper concentrates. Yet, at that time no timetable was confirmed. Starting ne...Read More
Pot stock profit-share members could receive the next check soon.This one-of-a-kind marijuana profit-sharing plan that could quickly have investors sitting on $17,667... $25,921... $38,898... or even $55,563.And possibly a whole lot more.There are no age limits to this program.No income caps.No complicated hoops to jump through (joining only takes 90 seconds).And most importantly - there are zer...Read More
Already legal in 30 states, the tide is turning for medical marijuana.It seems like everyone is looking for a way to make money from the legal marijuana boom...But many don't want to roll the dice and risk their hard-earned money on a penny stock, or spend hours learning how to buy shares of a grower on some Canadian exchange.But there is good news.Marijuana profit-sharing plans are here, and one...Read More
Today's pullback could find familiar support, thoughThe shares of Shopify Inc (NYSE:SHOP) are down 4.5% in electronic trading this morning, after Guggenheim downgraded the e-commerce name to "neutral" from "buy." Ken Wong, the analyst in coverage, notes that while he still regards the retail name as a "disruptive force," he sees a capped potential in the stock's valuation and believes many inves...Read More
China will raise tariffs on U.S. goods starting June 1 Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) have plummeted 480 points, after China said it will raise tariffs to as high as 25% on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports, starting June 1. This comes just after the U.S. raised tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods last week. Futures on the S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) a...Read More
Shorts coming out of hibernation remains a risk to stocks Since nearing 1,600 earlier this month, $RUT has stalled...Same for $SPX at 2,900... $IXIC now battling 8k- Todd Salamone (@toddsalamone) April 17, 2019 After multiple equity benchmarks rallied above key round numbers that I pointed out about a month ago on Twitter, and the S&P 500 Index (SPX - 2,881.40) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC - 7,916...Read More
Zinc's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange fell by more than 2% at the close of trading on Monday May 13 following the fresh inflow of more than 8,000 tonnes into LME-registered warehouses in Europe. Total on-warrant LME zinc stocks are now above 90,000 tonnes for the first time since January and are trending higher after falling to a record-low of 41,900 tonnes in March. More than 30%...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was gold, up 0.54 percent. Gold traders ended the week neutral on the price of gold as many are awaiting more details on the trade talks between the U.S. and China, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. The BullionVault gold index measuring the balan...Read More
By: David HaggithSo much for the trade war being "good and easy to win." Let's be honest. Trump has been grinding away on it for almost a year now, and China has barely flinched in its negotiations. On Friday the tariff war became personal because it will now tap your own budget and every business budget in town.If you think Trump's boosting of the amperage means China will settle quickly, you m...Read More
My minimum upside target for the S&P 500 is still 3095, about 7.4% above these levels, and I am sticking with it. A corresponding rally in the Dow Industrials would leave them just shy of 28,000. Let me also mention that last week's nasty selloff would have tripped a 'mechanical' buy signal if the S&Ps had fallen just a little farther. The rally targets are purely technical and go directly aga...Read More
Traders will prefer to be long gold than short gold. I was hoping that sense will prevail in Trump and that a trade deal would be done with China on the weekend. Trump tweets suggest that he has refused to budge and will not budge for the rest of the his term which ends in January 2021. It is very difficult to predict the real long term impact of the US-China trade on China and rest of the wor...Read More
The market for exports of hot-rolled coil (HRC) and cold-rolled coil (CRC) from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was moderate during the week ended Monday May 13, with prices falling slightly.Prices went down with lower offers being heard and deals being agreed at reduced levels.The main export markets for CIS-origin flat steel were Turkey and the Middle East-North Africa (Mena) region...Read More
Mr. Maximilian Sali reportsBARRIAN MINING CORP. PROVIDES UPDATE ON BOLO WORK PROGRAMBarrian Mining Corp. has provided an operational update at its flagship Bolo gold property in Nevada.Barrian has recently completed its induced polarization and resistivity (IP/res) survey at Bolo. The survey comprises a total of approximately 11 line kilometres over nine lines targeting the mine fault and other mi...Read More
Long-steel export prices from the Commonwealth of Independent States remain under pressure this week amid a lack of demand from importers and low competing offers from other export markets, Fastmarkets heard on Monday May 13.Fastmarkets MB's weekly price assessment for CIS export rebar was $460 per tonne fob Black Sea on May 13, unchanged week on week."The rebar price could drop by a further $5-10...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday May 13 that are worth another look.China will implement import tariffs on more than 5,000 types of goods from the United States starting June 1, 2019, marking an escalation in the trade war between the two countries, the government announced on Monday May 13. Fastmarkets reporters present 12 key things le...Read More
Gold shows more improvement as trade war fears increase.But gold's leading supports, including silver, are still weak.XAU index is also very weak and hasn't confirmed gold's latest rally.The gold price has received a much-needed safety bid since last week, and this has sufficed to keep the metal's price above its recent four-month low. But as we'll discuss in today's report, more is ne...Read More