The annual global benchmark for copper treatment and refining charges (TCs/RCs) might show a small fall in 2019 because of the tightening supply of copper concentrates, according to Canada-based financial services provider BMO Capital Markets.Copper miners, led by Freeport and Antofagasta, and smelters, led by Chinese firms Tongling and Jiangxi Copper, are currently in the middle of contract negot...Read More
Karen Freifeld(Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to provide written answers to questions from the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as soon as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.The questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Trump is preparing to answer relate only to Moscow’s involvement in the e...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1201.70+$0.20Silver$13.99-$0.02XAU61.84-1.30%HUI138.45-1.34%GDM513.82-1.10%JSE Gold1083.54-12.56USD97.19-0.40Euro112.89+0.68Yen87.86-0.11Oil$55.69-$4.2410-Year3.140%-0.044T-Bond138.625+0.15625Dow25286.49-0.40%Nasdaq7200.87UNCHS&P2722.18-0.15% The Metals: Gold saw decent gains in Asia before it dropped back to $1196.40 in London, but it then chopped back higher in New Yo...Read More
Collapse of global stock markets can result in all metals and energies falling. Reason: Liquidity. Nervous investors will prefer to sit on cash. The continuous zoom up and nosedive pattern of global stock markets and currency markets will prevent retail investors from investing as well as trading. They will just use sharp rises to exit their investment and nothing else. Physical buyers of gold...Read More
Steve HollandWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to remove Department of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen and is considering replacing chief of staff John Kelly in another shakeup of his administration, a source close to the White House said.Trump has been mulling removing Nielsen, a Kelly protege who became the secretary at Homeland Security when he left the job...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. federal government ran a $100 billion deficit in October, the first month of the new fiscal year, according to data released on Tuesday by the Treasury Department.The deficit was in line with analysts' expectations.The Treasury said federal spending rose 18 percent from the year-earlier month to $353 billion in October, while receipts were up 7 percent to $253 billi...Read More
Fred Imbert| @foimbertPublished 15 Hours AgoUpdated1 Hour AgoCNBC.com show chapters Markets will bounce 'all over the place' on White House's trade statements, Nuveen's Bob Doll says 7 Hours Ago |04:18 Stocks fell in volatile trading on Tuesday, failing to regain their footing after suffering steep losses in the previous session.The Dow Jones Industrial Aver...Read More
Low-grade manganese ore prices ticked up again on better demand, while thin trading knocked high-grade prices. Low-grade prices rise againHigh-grade prices slideSilico-manganese holds in China, ferro-manganese stirs upwardHigh-carbon ferro-manganese ticks up in Europe, drops in United States Silico-manganese holds in Europe, US Low-grade manganese ore prices continued edging up on Friday Nove...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The euro and sterling rose on Tuesday as Britain and the European Union agreed on a preliminary text for the nation to leave the economic bloc in a bid to avoid a chaotic divorce that would disrupt the region’s economy.The stronger euro and sterling spurred profit-taking in the dollar, which reached a 16-month peak against a basket of currencies on Monday.Uncertainty ove...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said on Tuesday that the United States welcomed the resumption of talks with China on trade, while Vice President Mike Pence warned Beijing to change its behavior so as to avoid a new cold war with the United States.National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow told reporters at the White House that the U.S. and Chin...Read More
G?(C)camines has requested an emergency meeting with the technical teams of the stakeholders in Katanga Mining Limited but said it had not been consulted on a decision to halt the export and sale of cobalt from its Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) unit.Exports and sales from the Glencore-owned operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were suspended last week after excessive levels of uranium...Read More
(Reuters) - The United States economy could add as many as 5 million workers to its labor force by improving conditions for women workers, including offering better parental leave, a paper published by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank on Tuesday found.Worker shortages have become an increasing concern for U.S. companies now that unemployment has fallen to 3.7 percent, and part of the problem...Read More
Aerial view of the deposit area of the Kwanika Project. Source: Serengeti Resources Inc.Serengeti Resources Inc. [SIR-TSXV; 34S-FSE] was an active trader Tuesday November 13 after the company released drilling results from the Kwanika Project in north-central British Columbia.The company said the assay results are from a 2018 drilling campaign that is part of an ongoing pre-feasibility study that...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union and Britain have agreed a draft text of a Brexit withdrawal agreement and Prime Minister Theresa May will present it to her senior ministers on Wednesday.While officials choreograph the first withdrawal of a sovereign state from the EU, it remains unclear whether May can get any deal approved by the British parliament.“Cabinet will meet at 2 p.m. tomorro...Read More
WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump attacked his French counterpart on Tuesday in a series of tweets that underscored how much the once-friendly ties between the two leaders have soured, just two days after returning from Paris.In five posts sent on the same day that French officials marked the anniversary of the 2015 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, Trump bl...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will remove Department of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen and replace chief of staff John Kelly in another shakeup of his administration, U.S. news outlets reported on Tuesday, citing multiple unnamed sources.Trump has decided to remove Nielsen, a Kelly prot?(C)g?(C) who became the secretary at Homeland Security when he left the job to be...Read More
The San Jose Mine in Santa Cruz, Argentina. Source: McEwen Mining Inc.McEwen Mining Inc. [MUX-TSX, NYSE] has entered into an equity distribution deal with a group of underwriters in connection with a common share offering that could raise up to US$90 million, the company said.McEwen said the agreement, dated November 8, is with an underwriting group that includes UBS Securities, LLC, BMO Capital M...Read More
?EUR? Intervals are presented in core length; holes are generally planned to intersect mineralization as close to perpendicular to strike as possible with true widths are estimated to be 75%-85% of downhole length when hole and dips of the mineralized horizons are considered.?EUR? Assays presented are not capped. Intercepts occur within geological confines of major zones but have not been correlat...Read More
BELFAST (Reuters) - It is going to be a “very, very hard sell” for British Prime Minister Theresa May to win parliamentary backing for her emerging Brexit deal, the deputy leader of the small Northern Irish party propping up her government said on Tuesday.“The trick will be for Theresa May, can she satisfy everyone? It is going to be a very, very hard sell, I would have thought,...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is considering removing Department of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen and replacing chief of staff John Kelly in another shakeup of his administration, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing multiple unnamed sources.Nielsen, a prot?(C)g?(C) of Kelly who became the secretary at Homeland Security when he left the job to become Trump’s c...Read More