Gold’s technical-chart picture has improved, and the December futures potentially could challenge the 100-day moving average around $1,238.10 an ounce in the not-too-distant future, says Charlie Nedoss, senior market strategist with LaSalle Futures Group. The most-active Comex contract hit a 10-week high of $1,230 an ounce on Thursday, although it has pulled back some to $1,225.30, down $2.3...Read More
Great Panther Silver Ltd. (TSX: GPR; NYSE American: GPL) reports output from its two Mexican mines declined in the third quarter compared to a year ago, although the company remains track to meet its full-year output guidance. Silver production decreased 16% year-on-year to 448,840 ounces, while gold production fell 19% to 4,737 ounces. However, lead and zinc production increased 29% and 14%, re...Read More
The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for hot-rolled coil, cold-rolled coil, hot-dipped galvanized coil, pre-painted galvanized iron, steel plate, steel sheet and other flat steel products.Latest transactions: HRC, CRC, HDG, PPGIHot-rolled coilTurkey, domestic, hot-rolled coil, offered at $570-580 per tonne ex-works, late November-early December production.Turkey, domestic, hot-r...Read More
The imminent short squeeze gold bulls had been waiting for since late July, was triggered yesterday after U.S. equities were down over three percent the previous session. Just after the London Metals Exchange (LME) opened yesterday morning, gold spec shorts slowly began to cover as Dow Futures were showing more weakness before the opening bell. Once the U.S. CPI inflation data came in lower than e...Read More
Gold has broken out to the upside. The big question from here is can it hold? The answer is not an easy one but the simple fact that gold has been consolidating for months, continued to make higher lows and finally pushed through $1,220 suggest the answer is yes. This is the time when traders and investors get confused about who and what they are. As a trader, if you are long gold as a trade, you...Read More
(Reuters) - Wall Street rose on Friday after a bounce in technology and other high-growth stocks led a fight back from its worst two-day slide in eight months, while early gains from strong earnings of the biggest U.S. lenders faded.PNC Financial (PNC.N) led the losses among bank stocks with a 6.3 percent drop after the regional bank reported disappointing quarterly loan growth and said it expecte...Read More
Key data for the pricing session in the week ending Friday October 12. China China's domestic spot markets for ferro-chrome and UG2 chrome ore were relatively quiet in the first week after the national holiday, which ran October 1-7. Offers for imported charge chrome rose but liquidity...Read More
The following Fastmarkets noble alloys, bulk alloys and ores prices changed on Friday October 12:Noble alloysMolybdenum Europe drummed molybdic oxide, $/lb: $12.00-12.15 per lb from $11.90-12.10Ferro-molybdenum basis 65% min, in-warehouse Rotterdam, $/kg Mo: $29.00-29.40 per kg from $28.75-29.00Ferro-vanadium US 70-80% V, $/Ib: $51.00-53.00 per Ib from $48.00-51.50Vanadium pentoxide min 98%, in-wa...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 29 points in pre-opening trade. U.S. bank stocks generally moved higher following release of third quarter results this morning. JP Morgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo moved higher after releasing strong third quarter earnings. Microsoft gained $3.14 to $109.05 after Macquarie upgraded the stock to Outperform from Neutra...Read More
Chilean lithium producer SQM has asked the country's antitrust regulator to reconsider a decision that would see a 24% stake in SQM being sold to a rival producer, because it could give it access to commercially sensitive information. SQM filed a motion on Wednesday October 10 asking the Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia (TDLC) to rethink its earlier decision, which approved a deal agree...Read More
Domestic Chinese battery-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide prices softened on Thursday October 11 due to lower concluded prices after the Golden Week national holiday on October 1-7. Cheaper lithium compounds produced from brine in China keep dragging spot prices down while suppliers of lithium compounds produced from hard rock are resisting lower bids. The Chinese lithium carbonate price...Read More
Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per tonne on an ex-works China basis. Delivered prices are netted back. Fastmarkets prices Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for lithium carbonate min 99.5% Li2CO3 battery grade, spot price range, ex-works China, yuan per tonne. Fastmar...Read More
Good morning from Metal Bulletin's offices in Asia as we bring you the latest news and pricing stories on Friday October 12.Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mostly up during Asian morning trading on Friday October 12, with the weakening dollar supporting investor confidence. Check Fastmarket MB's live futures report here.Codelco's Chuquicamata division will be&nb...Read More
The level of activity in the United States' pig iron market was lower than market sources expected after the recent scrap price increase because buyers replenished their stocks several weeks ago, Fastmarkets heard on Friday October 12.Last week, the only deal heard was for Southern Brazilian pig iron with high phosphorous content, at $373-375 per tonne cfr.Fastmarkets' price assessment for US impo...Read More
Pig iron suppliers in the south of Brazil have resumed their export sales after a month of silence, Fastmarkets heard on Friday October 12.Two cargoes were sold at $350 per tonne fob. One was intended for the United States market and the other for Peru, sources believed.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for pig iron exports from the south-eastern Minas...Read More
The price for shredded ferrous scrap imported into India inched up this week but trading remained subdued because of the week rupee, sources told Fastmarkets MB on Friday October 12.Fastmarkets MB's weekly index for containerized imports of shredded scrap into India increased to $358.92 per tonne cfr Nhava Sheva on Friday October 12, from $355 per tonne cfr Nhava Sheva one week ago.The import mark...Read More
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Your Global Market Watch picked the high in the S&P as September and called for a waterfall on the monthly level. That was amazing. Yet, with the stock market crash, gold could not even rally above the previous week’s high. If the bonds look like death warmed over, equities crash, then surely gold should have rallied but it could not overcome its own weight. Is...Read More
The Turkish deep-sea scrap market remained quiet on Friday October 12, with market participants in the country focusing their attention on the court decision in the pastor Andrew Brunson case.Turkey's steel and scrap markets are strongly connected to the lira-dollar exchange rate, because mills buy their raw materials in dollar-denominated deals and sell finished goods for lira in local market.And...Read More
Japan-origin H2-grade ferrous scrap re-entered the Vietnamese import market this week because a seller was trying to offload export cargoes in the face of supply pressure. This was despite higher prices in the domestic Japanese market.Taiwanese import scrap prices dipped slightly on thin demand from steel mills, which expect the downstream rebar and sections markets to remain bearish.The overnight...Read More
Arbitrage for copper, aluminium, zinc and nickel imported into China on Friday October 12*Copper -$130.49 (-904.79 yuan)Aluminium -$450.01 (-3,120.29 yuan) Zinc $34.09 (236.38 yuan) Nickel $214.17 (1,485.02 yuan) *Fastmarkets MB calculates the physical arbitrage for import into China daily by using SHFE front-month and LME three-month prices...Read More