(Kitco News)- Goldprices are holding on to modest gains, following the news that U.S. consumersbought slightly more pre-existing homes in October, according to the latestreport from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).Wednesday,existing home sales increased 1.4% last month to a seasonally adjusted andannualized rate of 5.22 million units, compared to September's annualized rateof 5.15 milli...Read More
One of Barrick Gold Corp.'s most senior executives, who held various high-profile roles at the company from Nevada to Tanzania, has left the company as it prepares to complete its merger with Randgold Resources Ltd.Richard Williams served as Barrick's chief of staff and later chief operating officer. A former commander in Britain's Special Air Service, he was assigned in February to work full-time...Read More
The European ferro-molybdenum market has dropped this week because of slow demand from consumers in the steel sector and from traders, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 21.Moreover, more price losses can be expected in the near term if consumer demand does not pick up, they added, while suppliers typically try to clear out most of their inventories ahead of the new calendar year.Fastm...Read More
The precious metal broker, GoldCore, has opened a new storage facility in Dublin.The firm expects gold investors to move physical holdings out of London.After years of secrecy, London revealed the extent of its gold market on Tuesday.David Reid| @cnbcdavyPublished 10:20AM ET Tue, 20 Nov 2018Updated16 Hours AgoCNBC.com Waldo Swiegers | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA worker lifts a gold bullion bar fr...Read More
Please Note: US markets are closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving and will close early on Friday. CloseGain/LossGold $1225.30+$2.90Silver$14.48+$0.16XAU67.20+3.12%HUI151.58+2.98%GDM551.76+2.35%JSE Gold1149.02+5.37USD96.73-0.08Euro113.84+0.16Yen88.76UNCHOil$54.63+$1.2010-Year3.059%+0.003T-Bond139.875-0.15625Dow24464.69-0.00%Nasdaq6972.25+0.92%S&P2649.93+0.30% The Metals: Gold saw slight losses...Read More
The Heart of the Matterby John Hussman of Hussman FundsLet's be clear. October's market decline was a rather mild warning shot. At its lowest close, the S&P 500 lost -9.9% from its September peak, before rebounding in recent sessions. As I noted during the 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 collapses, intermittent "fast, furious, prone-to-failure" rebounds are among the factors that encourage investors...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New orders for key U.S.-made capital goods were unexpectedly unchanged in October and shipments rebounded modestly, which could temper expectations of an acceleration in business spending on equipment early in the fourth quarter.While other data on Wednesday showed home resales rising last month after six straight monthly declines, house purchases remained sharply down this...Read More
A recent MarketWatch article notes that:GE was one of Wall Street's major share buyback operators between 2015 and 2017; it repurchased $40 billion of shares at prices between $20 and $32. The share price is now $8.60, so the company has liquidated between $23 billion and $29 billion of its shareholders' money on this utterly futile activity alone. Since the highest net income recorded by the comp...Read More
China continues to rely heavily on imported bauxite, with imports set to reach a five-year high of 70 million tonnes this year, Pi Jianqing, deputy manager of the non-ferrous department of Hanzhou Jinjiang Group, said last week. "China is expecting to import 70 million tonnes of bauxite in 2018. This [is the highest] since 2013, when the market stockpiled large quantities of bauxite on tightness c...Read More
Editor's Note: Welcome to Kitco's new Bitcoin Daily Technical Alert. Every trading day veteran Kitco technical analyst Jim Wyckoff will provide you with a concise and easy-to-understand near-term technical brief on Bitcoin. Importantly, Jim will glean the short-term charts and technical studies, and then alert you to the signals he sees regarding upcoming potential bigger price moves or price tren...Read More
Trafigura's rescue package for Nyrstar comes at a price, with the trader taking greater ownership of one of the world's largest zinc smelter's prized assets in return for helping it bridge a nine-day liquidity crunch. Nyrstar announced on Wednesday November 21 that its biggest shareholder, Trafigura, had granted it a committed working capital facility of $650 million, effective November 30. The Be...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold andsilver prices are posting good gains and are near daily highs inlate-morning trading Wednesday. Some chart-based buying has occurred, includingbuy stop orders being triggered in the futures markets, when both metals pushedto new weekly highs. Also, a weaker U.S. dollar index on this day is a bullish"outside market" factor working in favor of the metals market bu...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
* Strong support for copper at $6,150-$6,160 * Premium for zinc cash over 3-month at 21-year high (Updates with closing prices)By Pratima DesaiLONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Copper prices rose on Wednesdayas a lower dollar and higher equities triggered fund buying, butworries about the U.S.-China trade dispute and about demandgrowth in top consumer China are expected to cap gains.Benchmark copper on t...Read More
The exploration camp for IDM Mining's development stage Red Mountain gold project east of Stewart, northwest British Columbia. Photo by Ellsworth Dickson.IDM Mining Ltd. [IDM-TSXV; IDMMF-OTCQB] said Wednesday November 21 that it has expanded the underground drilling program at its development stage Red Mountain gold project east of Stewart, northwest British Columbia.The company said it has added...Read More
Exploration activities at the Pebble Project in Alaska. Source: Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. [NDM-TSX; NAK-NYSE] shares advanced on Wednesday November 21 after the company declared a small win in its fight to develop the giant Pebble gold-copper project in Alaska.The company said its Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) subsidiary has finalized a right-of-way agreement...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose more than 1 percent on Wednesday, recovering from the lowest levels in months, after U.S. government data showed strong demand for gasoline and diesel, but gains were limited by concern over rising global crude supply.Brent crude LCOc1 futures rose 51 cents to $63.04 a barrel by 11:12 a.m. EST (1612 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 futures ga...Read More
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States and China clashed on Wednesday at a World Trade Organization meeting with a U.S. envoy accusing Beijing of using the WTO to pursue “non-market” policies and a Chinese official saying it was Washington that was flouting the rulebook.U.S. President Donald Trump has outraged U.S. trading partners by erecting a tariff wall against imports of steel and a...Read More
The Turkish steel producers have extended their absence from the deep-sea scrap markets due to sluggish demand for their finished steel products, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 21.In addition to their fears of renewed product outflows from China, the weakening local and export rebar prices have become another obstacle for the mills in Turkey.Rebar prices in China, in both the domes...Read More
Key data from the Wednesday November 21 pricing session in Europe. Key drivers European suppliers resisted cutting prices or held off offering material altogether. The move follows a downward trend in alloy prices that started on September 12, when the market was assessed at $5.80-6.05 per kg, and stopped a couple of weeks ago.Alloy trading activity was generally quiet this week, with only deals...Read More