WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House adviser Peter Navarro on Friday sharply criticized efforts by current and former Wall Street executives to urge the United States and China to resolve their trade dispute, calling them “unregistered foreign agents” who were trying to pressure President Donald Trump into a deal.“When these unpaid foreign agents engage in this kind of diplomacy, s...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesNov 09, 2018 The widely-held mega-cap stocks that dominate the US markets are just wrapping up another blockbuster earnings season. Sales and profits soared largely due to Republicans' massive corporate tax cuts. Still these lofty stock markets are vulnerable to serious downside, as October's brutal plunge proved. Such extreme revenue and earnings growth cannot persist, and va...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell more than one percent on Friday, with U.S. crude on track for its longest losing streak since 1984 as global supply increased and investors worried about the impact of lower economic growth and trade disputes on fuel demand.Benchmark Brent crude LCOc1 fell below $70 a barrel for the first time since early April, and was down nearly 20 percent since reaching fou...Read More
Brazilian aluminium producer Companhia Brasileira de Alum?-nio (CBA) recorded sales volumes of 101,000 tonnes during the third quarter of 2018, up from 97,900 tonnes in the corresponding period a year before.Volume growth came from the company achieving a higher share of downstream products and exports in the sales mix, according to an earnings report published by parent group Votorantim.Consumpti...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court that is weighing a legal challenge to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s authority said Friday it wanted to know whether the sudden ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions could impact or change the outcome of how it should rule.The court’s order directed each party in the case to file briefs by Nov. 19 outlining, “what, if any effect...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week. Read More
* Copper marks biggest weekly drop since August * Zinc premium of cash over 3 months highest in over a year (Updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Nickel slumped to its lowest pricein nearly 11 months on Friday and other industrial metals slidas speculators unleashed more selling due to worries abouthigher U.S. interest rates and slowing Chinese economic growth.Copper...Read More
CloseGain/LossOn WeekGold $1209.90-$14.00-1.88%Silver$14.17-$0.26-3.93%XAU64.16-1.88%-4.51%HUI143.41-1.61%-4.04%GDM529.60-1.47%-3.05%JSE Gold1098.11-23.50-3.09%USD96.90+0.22+0.47%Euro113.39-0.22-0.49%Yen88.03+0.06-0.43%Oil$60.19-$0.48-4.67%10-Year3.190%-0.050-0.78%Bond137.875+0.6875+0.52%Dow25989.30-0.77%+2.84%Nasdaq7406.90-1.65%+0.68%S&P2781.01-0.92%+2.13% The Metals: Gold dropped $16.90...Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort169,141150,115103,258173,897212,033446,296465,406Change from Prior Reporting Period 387-5,44511,7988,04014,97120,22521,324Traders16593905852269194 Small Speculators (C) GoldSeek.com LongShortOpen Interest 48,61529,505494,911 -255-1,35419,970 non reportable positionsChange fr...Read More
Key Gold and Precious Metals News, Commentary and Charts This WeekWith Brexit around the corner and stock markets plunging in October - is now the time to invest in gold is asked by This Is Money this week. They kindly mention GoldCore as a leading "online bullion dealer" of physical gold (bars and coins) and informed their readers how "buyers can ask to have it stored, for a charge, or delive...Read More
A December interest rate hike is more or less a done deal. Chances of an interest rate hike in March next year will be high. All in all this is US dollar positive news. Gold and silver new investors will be waiting for more correction. Indian gold demand will be dependent on price trend. Right now the trend for gold price in India is down. The trend of the Indian rupee against the US dollar effe...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold andsilver prices aresolidly lower in early U.S. trading Friday. Bearish outside market forces areworking against the precious metals markets today, as the crude oil market iscareening lower and the U.S. dollar index is not far below last week’s 16-monthhigh. Gold prices hit a four-week low overnight, while silver dropped to asix-week low. December gold futures were last...Read More
The current conditions in the zinc concentrate market are the biggest challenge to operating Noranda Income Fund's (NIF) processing facility profitably, the company said. NIF, which owns the Canadian Electrolytic Zinc (CEZ) facility in the Canadian province of Quebec, said that the supply tightness in the zinc concentrate market was the result of several large mine closures in recent years and str...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. economy is growing at a 2.69 percent pace in the fourth quarter following this week's data on producer prices and job openings, the New York Federal Reserve's Nowcast model showed on Friday.This was faster than the 2.61 percent rate calculated by N.Y. Fed's program a week ago.Reporting by Richard Leong Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the auth...Read More
(Reuters) - China's State Administration of Taxation (SAT) is working with other government agencies to carry out tax reductions in a bid to support the private sector, the official Xinhua news agency reported.China's taxation authority will roll out targeted policies such as suggesting the local governments to give private firms a respite for paying taxes, SAT head Wang Jun told Xinhua in an inte...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vulnerabilities linger behind the hot U.S. labor market in which some communities remain underemployed and lack the skills and training that would protect them as the economy modernizes, two Federal Reserve policymakers said on Friday.The comments underscore why the U.S. central bank is only gradually raising interest rates even while unemployment is the lowest since the 1960s...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he has signed an immigration proclamation, an order that would help effectively ban migrants who cross the U.S. border with Mexico illegally from qualifying for asylum.The Trump administration unveiled new rules on Thursday to sharply limit migrant asylum claims by barring individuals who cross the U.S. southern border illegally fro...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Two of the world’s biggest economies probably shrank last quarter, further proof that global growth is now past its peak and the risk of a downturn is rising.Germany and Japan are both expected to report negative growth figures in the coming days and even if a slew of one-off events are factored out, the underlying trend is weak and the outlook is fraught with risk, not...Read More
Austenitic steel scrap prices in the UK decreased this week on the back of persistently poor demand and a negative outlook for early 2019, with lower nickel prices also a factor.Demand has been poor since October, when a substantial fall in the stainless steel market resulted in more cautious scrap purchasing from stainless mills. Scrap prices have gradually eased off during this time, although mu...Read More