Import prices for steel billet in Southeast Asia remained flat on Thursday December 27 due to sparse offers, bids and transactions amid the year-end holiday season.Fastmarkets' daily import price assessment for billet in Southeast Asia was $460-462 per tonne cfr Manila on December 27, unchanged for the sixth consecutive day.One cargo from the Russian Far East was sold to the Philippines at $462 pe...Read More
Link to the Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/ho-ho...Chaos reigns in the markets; US government is now in it's 6th day of an on going shut down, it's third this year, but certainly an indication of disfunction in Washington. Global growth prospects are dimming rapidly in China, Europe, Great Britain and the US, threatening a wave of defaults starting next year. US Consumer confi...Read More
It's been a long time coming, but at long last the stock markets are heading downward. What seemed like an impossibility just a few short months ago has now become a stark new reality. Danielle believes that it could keep on tumbling until it reverts to the mean. Pity all the poor individual investors who've been searching for a higher yield. They could be wiped out in the process. A lesson that n...Read More
Domestic rebar producers in Egypt have reduced their prices over the past week, however, steel billet import prices have remained stable week on week, sources said on Thursday December 27.Fastmarkets MB's weekly price assessment for steel billet imported into Egypt was at $440-445 per tonne cfr on Thursday, unchanged from the previous assessment.Billet producers in the Commonwealth of Independent...Read More
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As I mentioned in my post on lessons investors learned in 2018, most investors will want to forget 2018. However, the turmoil we are experiencing now across markets could Continue...Read More
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Import and domestic prices for rebar and billet in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) decreased this week, with demand weak, sources told Fastmarkets MB on Thursday December 27.Domestic rebarLocal rebar producers had previously announced reduced prices for January production on December 20.The country's largest producer, Emirates Steel, was offering rebar at 1,899 dirhams ($517) per tonne ex-works, do...Read More
After a strong start to 2018, the value of the world's largest mining stocks began turning down well before summer as worries about a China-US trade war continued to mount.Even before the Trump-Xi tariff battles began, fears of a slowdown in China, consumer and producer of nearly half the world's metals and minerals, were gnawing at investors hoping for another year of strong gains for the industr...Read More
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Import prices for steel billet in Southeast Asia remained flat on Thursday December 27 due to sparse offers, bids and transactions amid the year-end holiday season.Fastmarkets' daily import price assessment for billet in Southeast Asia was $460-462 per tonne cfr Manila on December 27, unchanged for the sixth consecutive day.One cargo from the Russian Far East was sold to the Philippines at $462 pe...Read More
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Money manager Adrian Day reviews recent developments at a number of resource companies in his portfolio. Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (WPM, NY, 18.91) settled its bitter dispute with the Canadian tax authorities over tax treatment of royalties purchased though its offshore subsidiaries. Wheaton won on the central question of Canadian taxation on foreign income, though certain minor adjustments i...Read More
An iA Securities report notes the early results from this Canadian mine indicate gold grades could increase. In a Dec. 19 research note, analyst George Topping reported that preliminary bulk sampling results from Osisko Mining Inc. (OSK:TSX) Windfall project demonstrate a "39% positive reconciliation in grade." Findings are from 2,078 tons of ore obtained from block 114 in zone 27 at the Quebec p...Read More