Major Chinese mills' daily crude steel output edged up in late January, but finished steel inventories dropped sharply.Members of the China Iron & Steel Association (Cisa) produced crude steel at an average rate of 1.82 million tonnes per day during the last 11 days of January, up 0.55 % from 1.81...Read More

However, call buyers are active ahead of earnings next weekThe shares of Mylan NV (NASDAQ:MYL) are down 1% at $31.26 in afternoon trading. While the stock has surged since its late-December lows, MYL has encroached on a trendline that's had historically bearish implications, suggesting the security could be headed for its next leg lower. What's more, Mylan earnings are just around the corner.MYL...Read More

A major price-target from BTIG is also creating tailwinds for ZSAN stockStocks are headed for a loss as Wall Street weighs a concerning batch of economic data. Among individual names making notable moves are cybersecurity specialist Carbon Black Inc (NASDAQ:CBLK), athletic apparel maker Under Armour Inc (NYSE:UAA), and clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm Zosano Pharma Corp (NASDAQ:ZSAN). Here's...Read More

The stock just pulled back to a trendline with bullish implicationsExchange operator Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE:ICE) has struggled to take off so far in 2019, yet to break past its year-to-date breakeven level. However, if history is any guide, this could present an intriguing buying opportunity for ICE bulls. More specifically, Intercontinental Exchange stock is now trading within one s...Read More

Eastern China's Shagang has increased the prices for its long steel products for orders booked in late February. The mill is selling its HRB400 16-25mm rebar at 3,950 yuan ($587) per tonne over the February 21-28 period, up 50 yuan per tonne from its last set of prices released on February 1,...Read More

By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.net There is an old Yiddish expression called a bubbe meise (pronounced my-seh). I guess the closest English interpretation of this expression would be a grandmother's tale, or in the common vernacular, an old-wives' tale.Of late, I am seeing a bubbe meise about the importance of central bank buying of gold, and it is making its rounds on websites all over the i...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold continues to trend with lower-lows, higher-highs. In a resistance area. The gold market is overbought. Gold stocks - $GDX - also back up into upper resistance and overbought as well. That does not mean in a downtrend...Read More

By: Ross Norman, Sharps PixleyGold's relative strength indicator is at the 73, highest since September 2011 - the month that gold hit an all-time high. This may suggest that gold is technically "overbought" just now, but it is also at a level we saw regularly back in the early 2000's when gold was starting a bull run with a 16% year on year increase, well before the Global Financial Crisis.There...Read More

The recent minutes show that the Fed is divided over future rate hikes. How should gold investors react?To Hike, or not to Hike, That Is The QuestionAs Chairman Powell has been good at communicating the US central bank’s plans, the recent FOMC minutes do not contain too many surprises. In January, the Fed took investors by surprise, saying that it could be patient on interest rates. The minu...Read More

AAPL, not long ago the one true love of fund managers, has been a conspicuous laggard since the broad averages trampolined off December's lows. It is only in retrospect that we can see how they might have contrived, albeit with only modest success, to ignore the stock's big problem, which is that the company's ridiculously overpriced phones are poorly positioned to compete against increasingly a...Read More

The passage of Bill C-45 could be a signal to early investors that pot stocks are ready to pop.With Bill C-45 now in effect, it's possible that in the very near future, investors may be seeing stock market gains that will never be seen again. This is a sentiment echoed by The New York Times, which reported that when this bill passes as expected, it will "completely legalize marijuana as a consu...Read More

Does technical analysis need to be so convoluted?  Here are a couple of definitions from different sources:1) Convoluted: (especially of an argument, story, or sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow. (source)2) Convoluted sentences, explanations, arguments, etc. are unreasonably long and difficult to understand. We are not talking about the accuracy or relevancy; or eve...Read More

Home Depot and Macy's are just two of the retailers reporting earningsThe last week of February will be jam-packed with virtually everything Wall Street has to offer. There's important economic data to digest, like the latest fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) estimate, and several Fed speakers will take the mic, including Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who will give his semi-annual testimony b...Read More

There is an old Yiddish expression called a bubbe meise (pronounced my-seh). I guess the closest English interpretation of this expression would be a grandmother’s tale, or in the common vernacular, an old-wives' tale.Of late, I am seeing a bubbe meise about the importance of central bank buying of gold, and it is making its rounds on websites all over the internet.We have been hearing for m...Read More

The weekly 2/22 327.50-strike put is popular todayBiogen Inc (NASDAQ:BIIB) stock is sinking, after Stifel downgraded it to "hold" from "buy," and cut its price target by $51 to to $346. The brokerage firm expressed concern over BIIB's Alzheimer's drug after Roche Holding ended late-stage trials for similar treatments targeting beta-amyloid last month, as well as a patent review for its multiple sc...Read More

The market for pig iron exports from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) remained strong but restocking activity slowed down during the week ended Thursday February 21, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for CIS exports of high-manganese pig iron was $335-340 per tonne fob Black Sea on February 21, unchanged week on week.Only small bookings to trading companies we...Read More

Existing home sales hit a three-year low in JanuaryThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is pulling back today, down triple digits amid pressure from Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and a round of dismal economic data. Among the onslaught of data points are existing home sales, which plunged to a three-year low in January, and the IHS Markit flash manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI), which fe...Read More

This news follows a damning Reuters report from DecemberThe shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) are down 1% at $135, at last check, after the consumer products giant said it received subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) in relation to litigation over alleged asbestos in its talc-based products, including its Baby Powder brand. This follows a dam...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed at the close of trading on Thursday February 21, with strong afternoon performances in the prices of three-month aluminium, tin and lead amid a slowdown in copper and nickel activity.The three-month aluminium price climbed by 2% over the afternoon to reach its highest point since February 7, while a fresh cancelation of more than 17,000 to...Read More

Domestic prices for heavy steel plate in Europe have moved up over the past week due to higher costs for steel slab, market sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday February 21.Although demand remained rather slow, the steelmakers - particularly re-rollers in Southern Europe - had to increase their prices for plate, market participants said.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic grade-S235J...Read More