Supply constraints continued to drive European ferro-vanadium and vanadium pentoxide prices to new heights, with both markets reaching record highs while the Chinese export market remained dormant. Chinese export prices remain flat absent export activityEU FeV prices set new record heightsEU V2O5 market edges upward to new record highUS FeV bolstered despite thin spot trading ChinaChina's ferro-va...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold is heading higher, but a meaningful move above the fleeting $1,300 an ounce level is looking possible only in late 2019, according to TD Securities’ 2019 Global Outlook.“Any meaningful rally is likely a story for late 2019,” TD Securities head of global strategy Bart Melek wrote in the outlook published on Monday. “The US dollar's strength relative to G1...Read More
Chrome ore and alloy prices continued to trend lower in China on Friday November 16 on thin market activities and lingering weak sentiment, while the European and US markets continued to suffer from increased seller competition amid subdued demand conditions. UG2, charge chrome prices soften on thin trading, bearish sentimentChinese domestic market holds flat amid inactivityKorean prices slide on...Read More
Vedanta unit Sterlite Copper intends to ship a portion of its copper concentrate inventories accrued before it declared force majeure in April, sources with knowledge of the situation told Fastmarkets. Sterlite has offered 15,000 tonnes of Cerro Verde copper concentrates for November or December shipment, several sources privy to the dealings said. The company's Tuticorin smelter was shut dow...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Investment bank Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday that it expected emerging market shares, currencies and bonds to see a modest rebound next year.“We expect modest positive returns across the major EM indices next year, albeit with low risk-adjusted returns,” analysts at Goldman said in a 2019 outlook report.They forecast that emerging market equities would see the bigge...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1222.40-$0.80Silver$14.32-$0.10XAU65.17-0.81%HUI147.19-0.73%GDM538.38-0.32%JSE Gold1143.65+2.03USD96.81+0.60Euro113.68-0.82Yen88.76UNCHOil$53.43-$3.7710-Year3.056%+0.003T-Bond139.90625+0.125Dow24465.64-2.21%Nasdaq6908.82-1.70%S&P2641.89-1.82% The Metals: Gold chopped near unchanged in Asia before it climbed up to $1228.70 in London and then dropped to a new session low...Read More
Asset management firm Fasanara Capital compared stock valuations to bitcoin in that "it is totally disconnected from fundamentals," its chief executive told CNBCImpending tipping point for markets is due to a synchronicity of enterprise overvaluation, high indebtedness, low cash balances and a drawback in public flowsStill, a major selloff hasn't arrived, and many market-watchers continue to...Read More
Gold and silver are steady. There is good demand for physical gold in China and ASEAN nations. Prices of gold and silver are low in Asia due to a stronger currency against the US dollar. People are taking advantage of stronger currency to buy gold. There will be sudden one way moves in bullion anytime till Friday. Asian markets and Asian traders do not sleep on US holidays. Silver demand is supe...Read More
Fred Imbert | Spriha SrivastavaPublished 15 Hours AgoUpdated2 Hours AgoCNBC.com show chapters The U.S. stock market is tanking again—Here’s what five experts are saying now 6 Hours Ago |03:19 The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 fell sharply on Tuesday and turned negative for the year as a decline in Target shares pressured retailers, while some of the m...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold andsilver prices aremodestly up in early U.S. trading Tuesday, supported by some mild safe-haven demandas the U.S. stock indexes have seen heavy selling pressure so far this week. December gold futures were last up $3.60 an ounce at $1,228.90. December Comex silver was last up $0.062 at $14.47 an ounce. Globalstock markets were also mostly lower overnight, following the soli...Read More
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday as poor forecasts from retailers for the holiday quarter fed into a market driven lower this week by concerns about demand for iPhones.The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 398.76 points, or 1.59 percent, at the open to 24,618.68.The S&P 500 .SPX opened lower by 36.13 points, or 1.34 percent, at 2,654.60. The Nasdaq Composite .I...Read More
Representatives from Chinese manganese alloy smelters will meet this week to discuss silico-manganese tender prices, market sources told Fastmarkets.The meeting is understood to be aimed at keeping the manganese market stable, market sources added. "We want to keep our prices stable so that the market is sustainable for everyone," a silico-manganese producer told Fastmarkets.Others noted that sili...Read More
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank will take ‘several’ years to normalize policy and wrapping up a 2.6 trillion asset purchase scheme next month is only the first step, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said on Tuesday.The ECB plans to end its purchases at the close of the year but said it would keep rates steady at record lows at least through next summer, suggesting tha...Read More
The Tuesday Market Minute Global stocks slide, with tech shares leading the declines, as investors retreat from risk markets amid questions over the fate of U.S. China trade talks and persistent signals of slowing economic growth.Apple shares continue to slump, with German-listed units falling to the lowest level since July, amid multiple reports of tepid iPhone demand, dragging supply-chain sto...Read More
(Reuters) - U.S. stock futures dropped by up to 1 percent on Tuesday as a technology rout in the previous session sparked by concerns over iPhone sales sapped investors’ appetite for high-growth companies.Shares of Apple Inc (AAPL.O) lost 1.4 percent in premarket trading, putting it on course for its seventh decline in the past nine sessions, and around 20 percent down from a peak earlier th...Read More
Turkish steel mills have continued to hold back from making deep-sea scrap purchases due to fear of product outflow from China, sources said on Tuesday November 20.Chinese rebar is widely expected by market participants to be offered in increasing amounts in the near term while its domestic market softens. This will soon affect prices all over the world, including Turkish scrap import prices,...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is pushing ahead with gradual rate-hike plans next month as it marches toward a more normal policy stance that would keep the economy expanding, one of its most influential members said on Monday in the face of growing doubts in financial markets.New York Fed President John Williams, a close ally of Fed Chair Jerome Powell and a permanent voter on monetary...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone money markets no longer fully price in a 10 basis point rate hike from the European Central Bank in 2019, indicating growing investor concern about the economic outlook in the single currency bloc.Money market futures dated to the ECB's December 2019 meeting now price only a 95 percent chance of a rate hike, from a 100 percent chance on Monday. ECBWATCHThis is a substa...Read More
Examining diamond drill core from one of Osprey Gold's projects in Nova Scotia. Source Osprey Gold Development Inc.Osprey Gold Development Inc. [OS-TSXV] was an active trader Tuesday November 20 after the company released assay results from previously unsampled core from its Caribou Gold Project in Nova Scotia.Results released Tuesday include assays form seven holes sampled from four key areas. A...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin tumbled as much as 10 percent on Tuesday to below $4,500 BTC=BTSP, bringing the world's best-known cryptocurrency's losses to 30 percent within a week as a selloff in digital currencies intensified across the board.Other cryptocurrencies also skidded sharply, with Ethereum's ether losing 10 percent ETH=BTSP and Ripple's XRP XRP=BTSP down 13 percent in a largely sent...Read More