China's rebar prices declined significantly in both the domestic and export markets on Friday November 23 amid plunging futures.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,920-3,950 yuan ($565-570) per tonne, down 70 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,780-3,800 yuan per tonne, down 40-50 yuan per tonneThe sharp drop in the paper market during the day intensified the bearish sentiment in the spot m...Read More
Global ferrous scrap prices continued to move downward in the week ending Friday November 23, with persistently weak finished steel sales and fears about renewed Chinese exports.Cargoes booked in Turkey were at lower prices due to fears of increased volumes of rebar being exported from China. The market in India was dragged down by the negative sentiment in Turkey, with prices falling by $8 per to...Read More
David Stockman appears on ("Varney & Co.," Fox Business Network, November 23, 2018)David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and...Read More
Click Here to Listen to the Interview As tensions between the US and China ratchet up, what next for the global economy as the world's biggest debtor nation takes on the world's largest creditor nation for primacy in the hearts and minds of Asia-Pacific nations. With its huge war chest of cash, China is forcing America to cough up more credit to maintain its military supremacy in the...Read More
Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More
Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. Read More
There is uncertainty in the United States pig iron market because the markets for scrap and hot-rolled coil (HRC), the key indicators, are moving in opposite directions, Fastmarkets was told on Friday November 23.Fastmarkets' price assessment for US imports of pig iron was $378-385 per tonne cfr on Friday, narrowing upward from $370-385 per tonne last week.One deal for high-phosphorous pig iron fo...Read More
Despite the forecasts 20 years ago that snow would be a thing of the past, the last three winters have been getting progressively colder and nastier. Back in 1975Continue...Read More
Barrick Gold's incoming chief executive said he wants to pull together Tanzania's mining industry to tackle a "desperate" tax dispute that has snared several companies, including the firm's Acacia Mining unit.In an increasingly acrimonious conflict that has lasted almost two years, the government has torn up mining contracts, hiked taxes and royalties, and banned raw minerals exports. Randgold fou...Read More
BTU Metals (TSXV: BTU) has expanded its Dixie Halo gold project in Red Lake, Ontario, by acquiring Burgudy Exploration and its 41.6 sq. km of prospective land in the area. Dixie Halo surrounds Great Bear Resource's (TSXV: GBR; US-OTC: GTBDF) Dixie gold project and raises BTU's total Red Lake land position to 129 sq. km.BTU will acquire Burgundy for 3.6 million sharesThe company will call its new c...Read More
Aecon Group Inc. (TSX: ARE) announced today the closing of the definitive asset purchase agreement to sell substantially all of the assets related to Aecon's contract mining business to North American Construction Group Inc. ("NACG") (TSX: NOA/NYSE: NOA) for C$199.1 million in cash, subject to customary closing adjustments.The closing is effective November 23, 2018.Read More
Camino Minerals (TSXV: COR) announced this week that it is in the process of completing an extensive surface exploration program on the 20,000-hectare Chapitos copper-gold project in southern Peru.Chapitos is located in the Arequipa province, near the Chala mining hub. This is the Peruvian Iron Oxide Copper Gold belt, which also hosts Minsur's Mina Justa, an open-pit deposit whose output is of 90,...Read More
Jason and Harley talk about the environmental movement and who profits, the disappearing middle class, and the loss of production in the United States with NAFTA. Harley says we've lost the understanding of wealth, citing examples of production going offshore, energy production going back to solar and wind power, and how we don't even consume most of what we produce because it's shipped overseas....Read More
New mining projects, particularly in the gold sector, are expected to drive strong economic growth in Canada's far north, with Yukon and Nunavut surpassing the rest of Canada by 2010, a new report shows.According to The Conference Board of Canada's latest Territorial Outlook, the nearby Northwest Territories (N.W.T.), however, face challenging times as the diamond industry there matures and prod...Read More
Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," as well as a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as an attorney until 1997 when she was recruited to work for an intern...Read More
Shares in Galantas Gold (TSX, LON:GAL) climbed more than 30% in London on Friday after a court of appeal dismissed a challenge to a Northern Ireland judge's approval of work at the company's Omagh gold project.Mining is already underway at Omagh, but once it reaches commercial production it's expected to produce 30,000 ounces of gold concentrate per year.The company stated the court ruled that...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne gives a quick update on the metals sector. He looks at the discrepancies between the GDX and GDXJ charts. He also considers the impact of the upcoming Fed meeting in December and the possibility of a relief rally in the US markets. This bounce in GDX has already gone on a longer than we thought but there is some serious resistance ahead.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market...Read More
The price of shredded ferrous scrap imported into India fell by $8 per tonne this week due to a poor trading environment, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 23.Fastmarkets' weekly index for containerized imports of shredded scrap into India was $350.53 per tonne cfr Nhava Sheva on November 23. This was down by $8.28 per tonne week on week from $358.81 per tonne cfr on November 16.Offer pr...Read More
Crude oil collapsed lower during Friday trade in New York, with the contract facing its seventh-straight weekly dercline as traders increasingly focusedContinue...Read More
Before we list our opinions on the gold market, we want to emphasize that many "cycles" are forecasting a huge move up in gold bullion should commence soon. Also do not forget that there no longer are "market makers" who in the past would bring support to the market....so gold stocks now drop to prices even lower than they did in the past. However, that does offer private investors opportuniti...Read More