Good morning from Fastmarkets MB's offices in Asia as we bring you the latest news and pricing stories on Wednesday November 14.Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange weakened during Asian morning trading on Wednesday, with the release of lackluster Chinese data failing to offset the downward pressure being exerted by a strong dollar.Check Fastmarkets MB's live futures report here.Opt...Read More
• The precious metal struggled to register any meaningful recovery and has been consolidating within a narrow trading range, just above one-month lows, forming a rectangular chart pattern on the 1-hourly chart. • A Rectangle is considered as a continuation pattern that marks a pause/consolidation phase, though is not complete until a breakout h...Read More
Gold prices settled higher on Wednesday, marking a modest reversal in selling action that had driven the metal down for seven sessions in the past eight. December gold GCZ8, -0.03% settled at $1,210.10 an ounce, up $8.70, or 0.7%. Tuesday's finish at $1,201.40 was the lowest for a most-active contract since Oct. 10, according to FactSet data. December silver SIZ8, +0.14% tacked on 10.3 cents, o...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
Gold prices ended lower Tuesday, logging a fourth straight decline and the seventh down session out of the past eight, as a popular gauge of the dollar slipped but remained near its highest level in roughly 17 months. December gold GCZ8, -0.03% fell $2.10, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,201.40 an ounce. It dipped to a low of $1,196.60, but also crossed briefly into positive territory to touch a high o...Read More
Here we have silver at $14 and with JPMorgan shorting the snot out of it for no conceivable legitimate economic motive, just as the Justice Department announces a criminal guilty plea by one of its former silver traders for manipulating prices. I could never have made any of this up if I tried. - Ted Butler / November 10, 2018On the heels of the US Department of Justice's commodity fraud and consp...Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSSSilver is approaching a three year low. The Silver Guru David Morgan joins Silver Doctors to discuss what's going on with silver and a whole lot more...David Morgan of The Morgan Report interviewed by Elijah Johnson of Silver DoctorsMany silver bulls are giving up, Morgan says. But this could change....Read More
Gold prices ended lower Tuesday, logging a fourth straight decline and the seventh down session out of the past eight, as a popular gauge of the dollar slipped but remained near its highest level in roughly 17 months. December gold GCZ8, -0.04% fell $2.10, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,201.40 an ounce. It dipped to a low of $1,196.60, but also crossed briefly into positive territory to touch a high o...Read More
SD Midweek: Crude oil has dropped in price to the mid-$50s, and silver just hit fresh, new 52-week lows, just like clockwork. Here's an update...I have been saying, for months now, if the price of crude oil drops into the mid-$50s, then the metals, and especially silver, would be headed lower.Check out this crude oil chart that I printed out this morning:Yes, it is down more than 28% from its high...Read More
Rob thinks gold and silver are going higher to finish out 2018, but if they drop in price, well that's a buying opportunity to Rob. Here's more...Rob Kirby interviewed on Reluctant PreppersSaudi Aramco and China just agreed to transact oil directly - only the latest in an accelerating drumbeat of major economic powers pivoting away from the woefully mismanaged US dollar. How will YOUR family's dom...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
Peter KrauthThe price of silver has been beaten down so badly lately, it's become massively oversold.In response to a blistering dollar rally, silver has sold off to levels last seen in late 2015, when silver prices put in a major multiyear low.That's been tough for silver bulls, who watched silver gain 5.4% in October after its September bottom.But smart money silver hedgers are still near extrem...Read More
Exploration spending in the mining sector rose for a second year to near $10 billion as the industry makes a cautious shift to growth and prepares for forecast booming demand for copper and metals used in electric vehicle batteries, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.Budgets jumped about 19%, outpacing last year's gain, which had been the first for the industry - excluding some commoditie...Read More
SHANGHAI - Chinese copper smelters are looking to make more investments in mines, pushing to shore up supply of concentrate at a time when competition for the raw material is heating up, industry executives said on Wednesday.China is the world's biggest consumer of the metal but its own copper mine production has been stagnating amid a broad crackdown on pollution, exacerbating a heavy reliance on...Read More
Electric vehicles are reaching global markets far and wide - and deep. Swedish mining equipment maker Epiroc AB now aims to electrify all its underground machines within five years.As much as 40% of an underground mine's energy outlay is spent on powering gigantic ventilation systems to remove pollutants from tunnels, this can be reduced by using less dieselThe manufacturer on Wednesday launched a...Read More
The world's second largest miner, Rio Tinto, (ASX, LON:RIO) is said to be preparing an offer for a minority stake in Teck Resources' (TSX:TECK.A | TECK.B)(NYSE:TCK) Quebrada Blanca copper mine in northern Chile.Canada's largest diversified miner, which in August received regulatory approval for a $4.8 billion extension of the mine, has been looking for a development partner that could invest $...Read More
LONDON - Disruptions to cobalt supplies in the Democratic Republic of Congo are not expected to eradicate a glut of the material used to make batteries for electric vehicles, thwarting hopes that prices can be boosted from their lowest since March last year.Glencore last week said its subsidiary Katanga Mining had halted cobalt exports from the Kamoto Project in DRC while it builds a facility to r...Read More
Vancouver-based Xiana Mining (TSXV: XIA), formerly Dorato Resources, paid $25 million and a 1.5% net smelter royalty to acquire Glencore's (LON:GLEN) Minera Altos De Punitaqui in Chile.Minera Altos De Punitaqui (MAP) is a copper-gold producing company that currently holds three operating mines, additional exploration licenses, a concentrator, and associated infrastructure. All these elements are c...Read More