Speaking at the Technology and Low Emission Minerals Conference in Perth, Bannerman chief executive officer Brandon Munro presented his company's strategy to take advantage of the early stages of a uranium bull market.He outlined the key factors investors need to look for to catch easy asymmetrical value at the beginning of a boom, noting the importance of a project's strategic appeal to sovereign...Read More
Mr. Eric Fier reportsSILVERCREST APPOINTS PIERRE BEAUDOIN AS COOSilvercrest Metals Inc. has appointedPierre Beaudoin as chief operating officer for the company. Mr. Beaudoinwill dedicate his full attention to the development of the Las Chispas property, and, as such, he will be stepping down from the Silvercrest board in December.Mr. Beaudoin is a precious metal mining executive with more than 30...Read More
Stephanie Landsman| @stephlandsmanPublished 11 Hours AgoUpdated10 Hours AgoCNBC.com show chapters Wells Fargo turns bullish on gold, sees near-term gains 4:47PM ET Tue, 13 Nov 2018 |02:20 With gold trading around one-month lows, the Wells Fargo Investment Institute is getting bullish.John LaForge, the firm's head of real asset strategy, sees gold regaining its luster and deliv...Read More
Primary aluminium stocks at the three main Japanese ports (MJP) of Osaka, Nagoya and Yokohama slipped 1% month on month in October, according to the latest data from major Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp. The data, which was published on Wednesday November 14, also shows that total aluminium stocks at the three ports came to 317,300 tonnes at the end of last month. On a y...Read More
Nickel premiums in China, the United States and Europe remained unchanged over the week amid limited activity, an unstable import window in Shanghai and participants' absence from the market. An open but unstable import window kept premiums in Shanghai flat Subdued activity in the US nickel market maintains premiums European nickel market quiet with long-term in focusShanghai nickel premiums uncha...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were predominantly higher at the close of trading on Wednesday November 14, boosted by a steady rebound in global benchmark crude oil futures and a marginal retreat in the dollar index.Following a decline in the oil price this morning due to increasing concerns over a global slowdown economic growth, it bounced 1.47% over the course of the...Read More
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin fell to a more than one-year low on Wednesday, breaching a key support level of $6,000 and causing a wave of selling in the digital currency and other crypto assets in what has been a prolonged market slump that began early this year.Bitcoin fell to as low as $5,533.09 BTC=BTSP on the Bitstamp platform. It was down 9 percent at $5,690.47.“For the last fe...Read More
South African miners will continue to need road transportation to get their material to port, according to Thembalani Gantsho, joint chief executive officer of Kudumane Manganese Resources.Road freight will be needed to meet the shortfall in capacity offered by the country's rail freight company, Transnet, Gantsho told delegates to Fastmarkets International Ferroalloys Conference in Lisbon, held N...Read More
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 dropping for the fifth session in a row, as Apple Inc (AAPL.O) continued to lead a retreat in technology stocks and financials were hit by fears that sector-wide regulations would no longer be eased.Mounting concerns that iPhone sales have hit a wall pushed Apple shares lower for the fifth day in a row. At their session low, shares we...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The euro and sterling rose on Wednesday as traders monitor the latest developments between the European Union and Britain on the latter’s departure from the economic bloc, and the EU and Italy on the resubmission of the latter’s 2019 budget.Hopes the U.K. parliament would approve a draft accord for Brexit have bolstered the two currencies, while the euro has been b...Read More
Back in 2104 oil was falling and hundreds of billions of dollars of energy junk bonds and leveraged loans looked to be at risk. Wolf Street had this to say at the time:Oil and Gas Bloodbath Spreads to Junk Bonds, Leveraged Loans. Defaults NextThe price of oil has plunged nearly 40% since June to $65.63, and junk bonds in the US energy sector are getting hammered, after a phenomenal boom that peake...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Tax enforcement agencies from the United States and four other countries are leading a crackdown on “professional enablers” of international tax fraud, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service head of criminal investigations said on Wednesday.The IRS, via an alliance with Britain, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands set up earlier this year, is pursuing individuals and fi...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold pricesare near unchanged and hovering just above $1,200.00 in early U.S. trading Wednesday.The silver market is slightly down and dipped to a nearly three-year lowovernight. Both metals showed minimal price reactions to just-released U.S.inflation data. December gold futures were last up $0.70 an ounce at $1,202.10.December Comex silver was last down $0.017 at $13.96 an ounce....Read More
Manganese alloy smelters are under pressure to scale back production due to the smaller margins achieved on suppressed alloy prices, Ferroglobe chief executive officer Pedro Larrea said during Fastmarkets' International Ferro-alloys Conference in Lisbon.Ferroglobe has cut some production at its manganese alloy furnaces, because the company has faced difficulties in generating profits due to the st...Read More
Manganese alloy smelters are under pressure to scale back production due to the smaller margins achieved on suppressed alloy prices, Ferroglobe chief executive officer Pedro Larrea said during Fastmarkets' International Ferro-alloys Conference in Lisbon.Ferroglobe has cut some production at its manganese alloy furnaces, because the company has faced difficulties in generating profits due to the st...Read More
Based the last few days' headlines you'd never know the world is in year 10 of a pretty good expansion. Check this out:Not terrified of a recession? These stocks hint you should be Cyclical commodities continue to weaken, gold moves in relation Italian banks on verge of new crisis on ?,?400 million hole at Banca Carige China rate-cut chatter becomes louder as growth risks gather "iPhone story is...Read More
The first deals for special high-grade zinc supply in 2019 in Europe point to a decline in annual zinc premiums compared with this year's levels, but Nyrstar's financial troubles are complicating negotiations and raising concerns that supply may turn out to be tighter than anticipated."Not much has been done yet, but [the premium] seems to be lower than last year by at least $10-15 per t...Read More
* China retail sales growth slows, industrial output rises * Nickel touches fresh 11-month low * GRAPHIC-2018 asset returns: (Updates with closing prices, Lead and zinc balance)By Zandi ShabalalaLONDON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Base metals held steady onWednesday as weak retail sales data from top consumer China tookthe shine off upbeat industrial output and investment figures inthe country.Benchmark co...Read More
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The overall perceived risk to the Canadian financial system has increased slightly over the last six months but confidence in its resilience remains high, the Bank of Canada said on Wednesday.A six-monthly central bank survey of risk management professionals showed that 44 percent felt the chances of a high-impact event had grown slightly while 50 percent saw no change.Compared...Read More
MILAN (Reuters) - Oil prices bounced from multi-month lows on Wednesday but stocks fell as disappointing data heightened worries over slowing global growth, while the pound wavered as Prime Minister Theresa May faced the hard task of selling her Brexit deal.European shares hit a two-week low after data showed the German economy contracted for the first time since 2015, tracking similar losses in A...Read More