WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. homebuilding rose in October amid a rebound in multi-family housing projects, but construction of single-family homes fell for a second straight month, suggesting the housing market remained mired in weakness as mortgage rates march higher.Other details of the report published by the Commerce Department on Tuesday were also soft. Building permits declined last month and...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower at the close of trading on Tuesday November 20, with broad risk-off sentiment emerging across global commodity markets amid continued trade tensions and a fresh one-year low in oil futures.Both zinc and lead futures were the worst affected, falling by around 2% over the afternoon, to below their respective support levels at $2,600 p...Read More
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank must complete a clean-up of the euro zone’s banking sector if it is to survive the next financial crisis, the ECB’s incoming top watchdog Andrea Enria said on Tuesday.Enria is set to head the ECB’s Single Supervisory Mechanism, which oversees the euro zone’s 118 top lenders, many of which are still reeling from the last recess...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold prices are trading modestly down and have lost mild earlygains in late-morning action Tuesday. The U.S. dollar index has rallied to itsdaily high, which in turn has put some downside pressure on the precious metalsmarkets. Still, another sell off in the U.S. stock market today will likelylimit the downside for the safe-haven gold and silver markets. December goldwas last dow...Read More
The Comex copper price continued lower in in the US morning on Tuesday November 20, with the rising dollar pressuring the entire commodities sector.The copper price for December settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 3.25 cents to $2.7665 per lb."We continue to expect a strong rebound in copper prices by the end of 2018 principally because investors are likely to...Read More
The Mining Stock Daily, a collaboration between ClearCreekDigital and Investment Research Dynamics, interviewed the CEO, Paul West-Sells, to learn more about Western Copper & Gold (WRN on both the NYSE and TSX). But first, here's background on WRN:Western Copper & Gold is advancing the Casino Project, a world-class copper-gold porphyry deposit, in the Yukon. The deposit contains 4.5 billion lbs of...Read More
* Cash/threes zinc spread jumps to $97/T backwardation * Global aluminium output rises to 5.4 mln T in Oct-IAI* Nickel hits lowest in more than 11 months(Updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Copper prices slipped on Tuesdayafter five days of gains, unnerved by a sell-off on sharemarkets and sapped by uncertainty before a meeting of U.S. andChinese leaders.Both coppe...Read More
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
The London Metal Exchange is planning to launch a lithium contract in the second quarter of 2019 to meet growing demand from the electric vehicle industry, Fastmarkets learned during Asia Copper Week in Shanghai. The contract, announced as part of the exchange's Strategic Pathway in September 2017, will be settled against an index price, with Fastmarkets MB's lithium spot price index one of those...Read More
(Reuters) - The S&P 500 hit a three-week low on Tuesday as weak results and forecasts from a bunch of retailers including Target and Kohl’s fanned worries about holiday season sales, while tech stocks continued to slide on concerns about iPhone sales.Apple Inc’s APPL.O 3.8 percent fall added to the pressure as the stock that led the market through much of its bull run opened at its...Read More
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