The Turkish deep-sea scrap market was quiet on Monday October 22 but bookings that came to light late on Friday have kept prices stable.Trades for two deep-sea cargoes emerged after the deadline for data submission to Fastmarkets' price assessment on Friday.These two cargoes continued the trend of Turkish mills buying European and Baltic Sea material. No deals for material from the United States h...Read More
The Democratic Republic of Congo gave two groups of investors a four-week deadline to submit a joint proposal on the development of the multi-billion dollar Inga 3 hydropower plant.The government signed an accord with Chinese and Spanish consortia this week to advance the 11,000-megawatt facility, the first time it's formally appointed entities to draw up plans to develop Inga 3 since the project...Read More
Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz chief economic advisor, speaks with CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" about his take on the global economy and how investors should approach markets that can no longer count on consistent support from central banks.Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMC...Read More
The burgeoning interest in gold has reached Wall Street, with Bank of America Merrill Lynch strategists backing bullish options linked to the precious metal.A negative view on the dollar, large short positions in gold futures and investor demand for portfolio protection are some of the reasons behind the call, investment strategists including James Barty wrote in a note on Friday."The current envi...Read More
For nine years now, every time we have an intermediate degree correction the perma-bears crawl out of the woodwork and start screaming the sky is falling. If you had listened to these people you would have missed one of the greatest bull markets in history.We had one of the most destructive bear markets in history in 2008/09. It stands to reason it should generate one of the strongest bull markets...Read More
Huge recent imbalances in the gold futures market led many to predict that speculators (usually wrong at big turning points) would be Continue...Read More
Canada's RNC Minerals (TSX: RNX), the company that last month unearthed more than 9,000 ounces of high-grade gold from a single blast at its Australian Beta Hunt mine, said Monday the first mobile diamond drill has arrived at site and underground drill crews have started the exploration program at the site.The Toronto-based miner said, set to release third-quarter production results to this...Read More
Glencore chief executive officer Ivan Glasenberg is said to be planning to retire from the commodities trader and miner in three to five years, and has even begun training a small group of front runners to take over the post.Glasenberg (62), whose strategic brilliance has made Glencore's - and his own - prodigious fortune, is coaching three to four people to succeed him in the job, Bloomberg repo...Read More
Turkish domestic scrap prices have fallen over the past week because the country's lira continued to regain some of its former value, sources said on Monday October 22.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for auto bundle (DKP grade) ferrous scrap was TRY1,770-1,940 ($313-343) per tonne delivered on Monday, compared with last week's TRY1,850-2,040 per tonne.The rise in the assessment came after som...Read More
McDonald's and 21 other fast-food chains received failing grades for not implementing policies to curb antibiotics.Continue...Read More
Believe it or not, Obama, who raised taxes dramatically, is claiming the recovery is because of him and not Trump. On September Continue...Read More
In this video we look at upside targets for gold and the gold stocks as well as the fundamental catalyst for the sector. We also opine on the reversal in uranium stocks.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold Premium, a publication which emphasizes market timing and stock selection for...Read More
David Morgan, publisher of The Morgan Report, talks about two companies that have come up with groundbreaking technologies Continue...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices rose on Monday October 22 amid bullishness in the steel and ferrous futures markets.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $73.80 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up by $0.52 per tonne.MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $72.83 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up by $0.52 per tonne.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $79 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up by $1.32 per tonne.MB 58% Fe Premium Index: $62.26 per t...Read More
With construction 40% completed, this gold explorer/developer is well on the way to getting the Yukon's next gold mine up and running. Construction crews are racing against Mother Nature, pouring concrete and erecting steel at Victoria Gold Corp.'s (VIT:TSX.V) Eagle Gold Project in the Yukon, in order to continue interior construction once the Yukon winter sets in. Concrete for the crushing plant...Read More
Brien Lundin, publisher of Gold Newsletter, sat down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss precious metals and their relationship with recent Fed actions and the dollar. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Brien Lundin, the president of Jefferson Financial, helping to protect your world.Please tell us about Jefferson Financial and what type of services you provide.B...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger explores the impacts of several historic market crashes. Q: How do you get your broker out of a tree?A: Cut the rope. Common joke from October 1987It was 31 years ago, on Oct. 19, that I watched a $300,000 stock portfolio begin to vaporize, with a Monday loss of 35% morphing into a 93% amputation by the end of the week, the remaining cash balance totaling slightly...Read More
Rudi Fronk and Jim Anthony, cofounders of Seabridge Gold, discuss the factors that they see pointing to a turnaround in the gold market. As we have noted, markets are deep into what we have called the Tariff Trade based on the assumption that Trump would win his trade war with China and that he would do so before it had any serious negative impact on the U.S. economy. The Tariff Trade was to go l...Read More
CIS export slab prices have remained unchanged over the past week despite modest demand in the major outlet markets because competition in the global marketplace has softened.One of the reasons for the reduced level of competition was that Brazilian suppliers have switched the focus of their activities back to the United States from the European, Turkish and Asian markets.Brazilian companies were...Read More
CIS steel billet suppliers continued to seek support in the markets of Southeast Asia in the second half of October, with customers' interest in imported billet in the Middle East-North Africa (Mena) region remaining low while the finished long steel market is subdued.Offers of CIS-origin billet varied mainly within the range of $460-470 per tonne fob Black Sea, market participants told Fastmarket...Read More