Markets US China trade deal US jobs report Gold and oil Encouraging rebound for stock markets The prospect of a trade deal between the US and China is providing a major boost to the markets on the final trading day of the week. The week got off to a shaky start following a dreadful October which very much lived up to its reputation. What’s come since is exactly what the doctor orde...Read More
Democrats take control of the Congress and move Trump out of the White House. Sounds unbelievable? So what is probable and what is not? We invite you to read our today's article about the upcoming US Mid-Term Elections and find out what are the likely consequences for the gold market. Will the US Mid-Term Elections Boost Gold? Elections are approaching the US again. Two years after Dona...Read More
Metal Bulletin reviews the major stories that have affected the steel market during the week ended November 2.Raw Materials Xcoal Energy & Resources has exported the first cargo of Baralaba low-vol pulverized coal injection from the Baralaba North mine in Queensland, Australia.BHP is counting on India and China to drive demand for steelmaking raw materials in the year ahead, and expects the struct...Read More
Fastmarkets rounds up some of the key news and price moves across the global metals markets this week.Base metalsA massive backwardation on copper forward price spreads on the London Metal Exchange has collapsed after market tightness eased thanks to delivery of 44,950 tonnes of metal into exchange-listed warehouses.Brazilian multi-metals producer Nexa Resources has maintained its production and s...Read More
• The precious metal managed to rebound from 50% Fibonacci retracement level of the $1180-$1243 recent upsurge on Wednesday, though struggled to build on the overnight upsurge following the release of upbeat NFP report. • However, technical indicators on hourly/daily charts have been holding in bullish territory and support prospects for an extension...Read More
Published 22 Hours AgoUpdated6 Hours AgoReuters Gold slipped on Friday as the U.S. dollar regained some ground on the back of strong American jobs data, putting the metal on track for its first weekly loss in five weeks.Spot gold was down 0.03 percent at $1,232.40 per ounce. The bullion was down 0.1 percent this week.U.S. gold futures settled down $5.3, or 0.43 percent, at $1,233.30.The dollar ind...Read More
Gold appears to be an attractive investment during the next few years.A larger degree corrective rebound is probably unfolding.Another spike below the August 2018 lows seems likely to start a bigger rally.Introduction Gold appears to be an attractive investment during the next few years. Technical analysis and sentiment indicators lead to this conclusion. However, the Elliott wave framework sugges...Read More
If Brexit - the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union on March 29, 2019 - isn't on your radar, it should be. With the annual London Metal Exchange Week now in full swing, the exchange, its members and their customers need to have contingency plans in place if they are expecting to be affected in any way by Brexit. And as with anything political, an element of brinkmanship will na...Read More
• Easing USD bearish pressure/risk-on mood fails to provide fresh impetus. • The latest US monthly jobs report might help determine the near-term trajectory. Gold held steady through the early European session on Friday and was seen consolidating overnight strong upsurge to fresh weekly tops. After falling for three days in a row, the precious m...Read More
The USD, gold's biggest nemesis, took a beating yesterday. As a result, the yellow jumped from $1,214 to $1,237. As of writing, it is trading at $1,232/Oz and has created a falling wedge pattern on the 15-minute chart. A break above the upper edge of the wedge, currently at $1,233, would signal a resumption of the rally and open up upside toward $1,250. On the way higher, the metal may encoun...Read More
When the London Metal Exchange finished its 12-step warehouse reform package, it proved once more that you cannot please all of the people all of the time. It faced some inevitable criticism of the rules, in particular that the LME went too far in certain areas and should consider tweaking or rolling back some of its reforms. In particular, the focus of attention was on the load-in, load-out (LILO...Read More
Silver's bottoming process looks a lot like that of 2001 to 2003, and once the dollar begins to decline, here's what will happen to the price of silver...by Hubert Moolman of HubertMoolman.wordpress.comSilver Bottoming Almost CompleteThe current silver bottoming process is very similar to that of 2001 to 2003. It took a while for silver to establish a base which set up the bull rally in the fol...Read More
For one week, Shanghai, China's economic center, will become the center of the global copper industry - representatives from miners, consumers, banks and brokers will convene for the annual Cesco Week. The week is centred on the Cesco dinner on Thursday November 15 evening - to be attended by some 2,000 guests - but there are a host of other well-established functions. The following details the ke...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were collectively higher at the close of trading on Friday November 2, ending the week stronger despite continued stock outflows and broad strength in the US dollar index.An easing of the trade tensions between the United States and China fueled the price rallies, with the three-month copper price topping the gains and reaching an intraday high of $6...Read More
CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGEThe long-term trend for Commodities, Gold, Silver, Copper & Miners remains down at this time. Could the long-term bear trends be coming to an end? Possible!This chart looks at the Australian Dollar where it highlights that the AU$ has spent the majority of the past 30-years inside of the blue shaded rising channel. The correlation between the AU$ and commodities has remai...Read More
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
Regulus Resources' (TSXV: REG) spin-out Aldebaran Resources (TSXV: ALDE) debuted on the Toronto Venture Exchange at $0.90 before tumbling to $0.59 in mid-afternoon trading.The company shares the same core management team as Regulus Resources and is focused on projects in Argentina.The recently formed junior explorer's primary focus will be the Altar copper-gold project, a large porphyry system i...Read More
A century after many of Chile's mines in the arid northern region were first opened, finding copper, or lithium, or gold or silver isn't as easy as it once was. The concentration of minerals in the earth decreases as the miners dig deeper, meaning companies need to process more ore to extract the same amount of metal - a messy and highly polluting process to begin with. To fuel that effort, they...Read More
LUSAKA, Nov 2 - Power supply to some mines in Africa's second-biggest copper producer was cut due to a technical fault, Zambian state power firm Zesco said on Friday."We had a system disturbance which led to loss of power on the Copperbelt, including the mines," the utility's spokesman Henry Kapata said."We are investigating the cause of the disturbance. Power restoration has started but it will b...Read More
Cardero Resource Corp. (TSXV: CDU) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of an undivided 100% interest in the Zonia copper deposit, originally owned by Redstone Resources Corp.The Zonia Copper Oxide Project, located in central Arizona, has been held under private ownership for almost 100 years and has undergone comprehensive exploration, metallurgical studies and mine development p...Read More