Comex copper prices surged back up to a mid-October high during a volatile week that saw the red metal unable to establish a clear price direction amid competing macroeconomic factors.The copper price for December settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange jumped by 8.60 cents to $2.8075 per lb. Earlier today in trading, the contract touched a high of $2.8090, the highest...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it will temporarily spare eight jurisdictions from U.S. Iran-related sanctions, allowing them to keep importing Iranian oil after U.S. economic penalties come back into effect on Monday.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who announced the decision in a conference call, did not name the jurisdictions, but he said that the European Union as a...Read More
I have not had a chance to scour the 10-Q, which was finally filed this morning. GM and Ford are 7-8x larger than Tesla in terms of revenues and 40-50x larger in terms of number of vehicles sold worldwide. Those two companies file their 10-Q almost immediately after filing the quarterly 8-K financial summary. There's no reason for TSLA to delay the filing of its 10-Q by over a week other than...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s bet that tax cuts and a gush of government spending would smooth the path to a second term may falter as cracks begin to appear in a decade-old recovery.After a nine-year bull run, stocks have wobbled. Capital investment has recently weakened despite a corporate tax cut meant to boost it. Home sales have softened for several months running, and...Read More
Iamgold Corp. (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) says a feasibility study for a joint venture withSumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd., for the C??t?(C) Gold project in northern Ontario,points to “an economically viable, long-life project that is expected to be alow-cost producing mine.” Compared to the prefeasibility study, proven andprobable reserves increased by 1.4 million ounces to 7.3 million. Mea...Read More
Editor's Note: Welcome to Kitco's new Bitcoin Daily Technical Alert. Every trading day veteran Kitco technical analyst Jim Wyckoff will provide you with a concise and easy-to-understand near-term technical brief on Bitcoin. Importantly, Jim will glean the short-term charts and technical studies, and then alert you to the signals he sees regarding upcoming potential bigger price moves or price tren...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesNov 2, 2018Nexus announced some drill results a week ago that may have confused investors. The results were actually quite good. But they will be announcing a lot more drill results shortly and when they do investors will have far more of a chance to judge the company.I've been to Burkina Faso 3-4 times [I used to bring giraffes back for Barb] and it is one of the better count...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the United States expected to issue eight exemptions to countries importing Iranian oil.Pompeo said the exemptions would be temporary.Reporting by Lesley Wroughton and Susan Heavey; Editing by Susan Thomas Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and may not reflect those of Kitco Metals Inc....Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesNov 02, 2018 The gold miners' stocks suffered a rough late summer this year. A rare forced capitulation walloped them to deep new lows, short-circuiting their usual autumn rally. That's left this sector anomalously low as the subsequent winter rally gets underway, gold stocks' strongest seasonal surge of the year. Starting from beaten-down levels after skipping the prior seaso...Read More
Key data for the pricing session for the week ending Friday November 2.China Domestic ferro-chrome spot prices dropped as the influence of lower tender prices permeated into the market.UG2 chrome ore prices fell with buyers remaining cautious in expectation of lower prices in the near future.A...Read More
(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were higher on Friday on hopes the United States and China would begin efforts to resolve their trade dispute, but gains were capped by a strong monthly jobs data that raised concerns of faster interest rate hikes.The Labor Department report showed U.S. job growth rebounded sharply in October and wages recorded their largest annual gain in nine-and-half years,...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Trump administration official on Friday dismissed as untrue a media report that U.S. President Donald Trump was readying a possible trade deal with China, a CNBC reporter said in a post on Twitter.“There is a long way to go,” on negotiations, the unnamed official told CNBC’s Eamon Javers, according to his tweet.Earlier on Friday, Bloomberg, citing...Read More
A massive backwardation on copper forward price spreads on the London Metal Exchange has collapsed after market tightness was eased by a delivery of 44,950 tonnes of metal into exchange sheds, Fastmarkets heard on Friday November 2.On-warrant LME warehouse stocks were up by 78% on Friday to 102,600 tonnes. Thursday's 57,000 tonnes was the lowest inventory level since August 2005.The delivery was t...Read More
Fred Imbert| @foimbert Published 16 Hours AgoUpdated5 Hours AgoCNBC.com show chapters Stocks pare losses on Trump's optimism for trade deal with China 6 Hours Ago |01:45 Stocks traded in a wide range on Friday as investors digested different comments and reports on global trade, while Apple shares dented the broader tech sector.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 109.9...Read More
CloseGain/LossOn WeekGold $1233.10-$0.10-0.07%Silver$14.75+$0.01+0.34%XAU67.19UNCH+3.10%HUI149.44-0.20%+3.31%GDM546.24+0.37%+2.92%JSE Gold1133.17-6.35-6.63%USD96.45+0.18+0.10%Euro113.95-0.16-0.22%Yen88.41-0.46-1.13%Oil$63.14-$0.55-4.03%10-Year3.215%+0.076+4.42%Bond137.15625-1.28125-1.59%Dow25270.83-0.43%+2.36%Nasdaq7356.99-1.04%+2.65%S&P2723.06-0.63%+2.42% The Metals: Gold chopped in a rel...Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort168,754155,56091,460165,857197,062426,071444,082Change from Prior Reporting Period -23,824-7,63017,5102,443-12,872-3,871-2,992Traders17593885651274194 Small Speculators (C) GoldSeek.com LongShortOpen Interest 48,87030,859474,941 980101-2,891 non reportable positionsChange fr...Read More
After a volatile month, which is being called "Red October," our latest video update was released and we considered the sharp fall in stock markets globally, falling property markets in the UK and Australia and gold's safe haven gains in all currencies.Gold acted as a hedge in all currencies in October, rising 1.7% in dollars, 4.4% in euro terms and 4.2% in sterling terms. Bitcoin and other c...Read More
(Kitco News)- The gold market is seeing a little selling pressurefollowing stronger than expected U.S. employment data.The Bureau of Labor Statistics said 250,000 jobs werecreated in October, economists were expecting to see job gains of around 194,000. At the same time the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7%,in line with expectations. The unemployment rate is at its lowest level since 1969.Go...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit rose to a seven-month high in September as imports surged to a record high amid strong domestic demand, offsetting a rebound in exports.The Commerce Department said on Friday the trade gap increased 1.3 percent to $54.0 billion, widening for a fourth straight month. Data for August was revised to show the trade deficit rising to $53.3 billion instead o...Read More