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
The International Wrought Copper Council (IWCC) has elected Dr Erwin Mayr, chief executive officer of the Wieland Group, to serve as chairman of the group, which is the international association for the copper and copper-alloy fabricating industry.Mayr succeeds Stefan Boel, formerly of Aurubis, who was the longest serving chairman in...Read More
A full-scale trade war between the US and China is closer than ever after Beijing hit back with retaliatory tariffs on Monday. The Chinese yuan fell by more than 1%, prompting a selloff in copper, while gold jumped $11 to 1299 and Bitcoin hits $7400. USD fell across the board on reports that some Chinese scholars have mentioned Beijing taking the "nuclear option" -- selling US treasuries...Read More
Source: Adrian Day for Streetwise Reports 05/07/2019Fund manager Adrian Day reviews a handful of non-resource companies and provides updates on a number of gold companies in his portfolio.Kingsmen Creatives Ltd. (KMEN:SI, 0.555), designer and manufacturer of high-end retail stores and more, is one of those companies whose very business is under threat by the internet. Kingsmen, however, has ar...Read More
Fastmarkets reporters present 12 key things we learned at LME Asia Week 2019 in Hong Kong during May 6-9. 1. LME is in talks with Guangdong local authority to establish warehouses in China Charles Li, chief executive officer of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEX), said the London Metals Exchange is in talks with the Guangdong government to pilot establishing LME warehouses in mainland China. Li...Read More
The global alumina market may tighten in the coming month after around 1.7 million tonnes of Chinese alumina production was suspended on environmental infringements this month, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday May 13. Xinfa Group has closed two production lines out of four at its Jiaokou alumina plant, removing 1.3 million tonnes per year of alumina output after the local authorities launched a...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
Stocks were gaining on Friday following a lower opening of the trading session and the morning sell-off. The S&P 500 index extended its downtrend before bouncing off and closing 0.4% higher. So was it an upward reversal or just correction within a downtrend?S&P 500: Negative Expectations AgainThe U.S. stock market indexes gained 0.1-0.4% on Friday, after bouncing off their new lows as inve...Read More
GOLD Spot gold accelerated higher on news that China retaliated to US tariffs that heated the trade conflict, with threats of further escalation of crisis. Bad news prompted investors into safe-haven assets and gold price rallied through important barriers at $1293/95 (55/100SMA) and 1297 (Fibo 38.2% of $1346/$1266), coming ticks ahead of o psychological $1300 barrier. Improved sentiment on fresh...Read More
Fastmarkets reporters present 12 key things we learned at LME Asia Week 2019 in Hong Kong during May 6-9. 1. LME is in talks with Guangdong local authority to establish warehouses in China Charles Li, chief executive officer of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEX), said the London Metals Exchange is in talks with the Guangdong government to pilot establishing LME warehouses in mainland China. Li...Read More