Turkish steel producers made no purchases in the deep-sea scrap market on Thursday November 1, with a fresh offer of material from the Baltic Sea region failing to find a taker, according to market participants.A scrap merchant in the Baltic Sea region was heard offering 30,000-35,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (95:5) at $345 per tonne cfr on Thursday. No mill had accepted the cargo at...Read More
The streaming stock just wrapped up its worst month on recordWedbush upgraded Roku Inc (NASDAQ:ROKU) stock to "outperform" from "neutral," saying the streaming name has positioned itself as "the best in class option for over-the-top advertising." However, in the wake of the equity's sharp October loss, the brokerage firm cut its ROKU price target to $65 from $73, though this is still a 17% premium...Read More
Turkish billet prices increased over the past week due to the latest uptick in imported scrap values in the country, sources said on Thursday November 1.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for billet imports into Turkey was $465-470 per tonne cfr on November 1, up from $455 per tonne last week.Suppliers in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) were offering billet in Turkey at around $470-...Read More
DowDuPont is powering the DJI today after an earnings beatFutures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are on the rise once more, on track for their third straight gain, as stocks try to put steep October losses in the rear-view mirror. Blue chip DowDuPont (DDP) is an early morning earnings winner, while investors eagerly await the quarterly report from Apple (AAPL) after the close today. The...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1233.20+$16.30Silver$14.74+$0.46XAU67.19+4.52%HUI149.73+4.84%GDM544.52+3.60%JSE Gold1139.52-24.28USD96.27-0.74Euro114.11+0.86Yen88.87+0.25Oil$63.69-$1.6210-Year3.139%-0.008T-Bond138.50+0.375Dow25380.74+1.06%Nasdaq7434.06+1.75%S&P2740.37+1.06% The Metals: Gold climbed steadily higher throughout most of world trade and ended near its midafternoon New Yor...Read More
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By Dave KranzlerOne of the proprietors of StockBoardAsset.com tweeted about two weeks ago wondering when the stock market was going to start pricing in a slow-down in the economy. To that I responded by pointing out that the DJ Home Construction index is starting to price in a housing market crash. Residential construction + all economic activity connected to selling and financing existing homes...Read More
Gold has once again fallen into a rut, dropping moderately for three consecutive days. This has occurred with the December contract having failed by $8 to achieve a $1254.10 rally target I'd flagged. The futures have since made a tentative bottom 0.60 above the $1212.80 correction target where I'd suggested bottom-fishing. We narrowly missed catching the $5.40 rally that ensued, but will it ge...Read More
In our latest video update, we consider the performance of markets in a volatile October. Stock markets globally fell sharply while gold acted as a hedge in all currencies, rising 1.7% in dollars, 4.4% in euro terms and 4.2% in sterling terms.Stocks Fall Sharply in OctoberThe S&P 500 is just short of a 10% decline from its record September high and remains on pace for the worst month since 2009....Read More
Marijuana stocks are in "early internet" territory.Amazon's early investors walked away with over 79,000% in profits. And this same phenomenon is happening in the cannabis space right now.Remember, the dotcom bubble separated out the real companies from the fake.Which is why it's so important to "weed" out the companies that might not survive this volatile but opportune time.Now, the race has ser...Read More
Copper prices on the Comex exchange in New York maintained their recovery in the morning of Thursday November 1, with a weaker dollar providing support to the base metals complex.The copper price for December settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose day on day by 2.60 cents per lb to $2.6850 per lb."After a largely down session across a number of commodity complexe...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1233.20+$16.30Silver$14.74+$0.46XAU67.19+4.52%HUI149.73+4.84%GDM544.52+3.60%JSE Gold1139.52-24.28USD96.27-0.74Euro114.11+0.86Yen88.87+0.25Oil$63.69-$1.6210-Year3.139%-0.008T-Bond138.50+0.375Dow25380.74+1.06%Nasdaq7434.06+1.75%S&P2740.37+1.06% The Metals: Gold climbed steadily higher throughout most of world trade and ended near its midafternoon New Yor...Read More
The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday November 2.Comex copper prices in New York, like most base metals on the London Metal Exchange, mostly recovered on Thursday November 1, with a weaker dollar providing support to the complex. Read more in our live futures report.Here are how prices looked at the close of trading:A 10-year low in LME zinc stock volumes...Read More
The latest metal markets news and price moves to start the North American day on Thursday November 1.Base metals on the London Metal Exchange were collectively higher during morning trading on Thursday November 1, with most metals recovering from Wednesday's dip amid a softer US dollar index and a continued drawdown in LME inventories.Pushing back above $11,500 per tonne, the three-month nickel pr...Read More
Gold is on track to become less volatile and stabilize.The future of gold in 2019.Gold prices compared to the GDX gold miners fund.Gold continued to build on last week's gains, adding nearly $7 per troy ounce or 0.5% as of the close on Friday on the New York COMEX futures exchange. The final print for the week was $1,229. Given the surge seen over the past two weeks, it is time to place the price...Read More
Gold moved higher this month in response to the stock market.Now that the stock market 'fear-trade' has subsided, gold will return to its normal correlations.Rates, the dollar and inflation expectations are all working against the gold price. Gold is a reactive market, not a leading one. It reacts to, among other things, the sentiment generated by the much larger debt market, currency mark...Read More
Good morning from Fastmarkets MB's offices in Asia, bringing the latest news and pricing stories on Thursday November 1. Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mostly down during Asian morning trading, with the complex coming under pressure from weaker China data. China's weak manufacturing growth for October, with manufacturing PMI at 50.2 and non-manufacturing PMI...Read More
Spearmint Resources (CSE:SPMT) announced today that it has acquired the 'Hammernose' gold prospect consisting of 5,140 acres directly bordering the strategic alliance between Westhaven Resources and Sable Resource in the Spences Bridge gold belt, which is located in Southern British Columbia, Canada.According to Spearmint, Spences Bridge is a 200-kilometre-long by 30-kilometre-wide emerging low-su...Read More
Although faced with a comprehensive assessment process and the fact that the French government formed a special committee to evaluate in detail the social and economic benefits and impacts of the gold mining industry in French Guiana, Columbus Gold (TSX:CGT) issued a statement today saying that its Montagne d'Or gold project, which is located in the overseas territory, is moving forward with permi...Read More
Gold buying by central banks reaches its highest level since the fourth quarter of 2015.Around $5.82 billion was spent during the third quarter to boost central bank reserves.The buying was offset by heavy selling of gold-backed funds during the same period.David Reid| @cnbcdavy Published 12 Hours AgoUpdated12 Hours AgoCNBC.com Mariya Gordeyeva | ReutersCentral banks around the world have upped t...Read More