Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:The Shareholders' Gold Council, started last year by fund manager John Paulson "to conduct research reports and studies of interest to investors in the gold industry" (https://www.goldcouncil.net/), has rejected GATA's requests for membership and to make a presentation about manipulation of the gold market by central banks and their bullion bank agents.A representati...Read More
There will be demand in Asia of gold and silver today. If gold and silver continue to fall today also, then jewelers will have a jolly time during the weekend. They will be very busy. There should be good gold jewelery demand tomorrow if gold prices fall today also. Does an end to so called trade war between USA-China imply that it is over for gold bulls? This is the question which I am aski...Read More
Brazilian slab export prices have jumped for a third consecutive week following the positive trend in steel prices and the costs of raw materials.Fastmarkets' weekly assessment of Brazilian slab export prices was $490-530 per tonne fob on Friday February 22, compared with $460-510 per tonne fob a week earlier.Some volumes were still available for April shipment, and sellers were waiting to place o...Read More
Steel scrap prices in the principal trading regions have fallen sharply, as was expected by the majority of market participants, during the working week from Monday February 18 to Friday February 22.The price falls followed the decrease in Turkish scrap import prices this week, which was itself the result of limited demand for rebar and billet in the country's domestic market.Prices in Taiwan mana...Read More
Section 232 tariffs on aluminium and steel raised $3.6 billion in their first nine months, and revenues for the last two months are likely to push that figure up by around another $1 billion, US government data shows.That figure would be enough to cover the shortfall in funding sought by United States President Donald Trump for border security. In other words, aluminium and steel tariffs could fun...Read More
Detailed data for Chinese trade is still not available, but there are indications that the East Asian country may have become the biggest importer of pig iron in Asia last year, according to Fastmarkets' research team.We pointed out in June last year that the Chinese import pig iron market might revive to fill the widening gap between iron and steel production in China, alongside ferrous scrap.Hon...Read More
The process to exclude steel and aluminium from the Section 232 import tariffs applied by the United States is having some interesting consequences.Notably, in the event of a national security issue - which Section 232 was designed to address - the United States would theoretically rely on Japan for its steel and Saudi Arabia for its aluminium.Those countries have been granted the highest volume o...Read More
Shares in Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) climbed on Friday after the miner said it is ready to grow its yearly output to more than 500,000 ounces next year, supported by the restart of its K????lada?? gold mine in Turkey, and the soon-to-be coming online Lamaque project in Canada.The Vancouver-based miner cancelled plans last month to build a $500-million processing mill at K????lada...Read More
Zinc and lead concentrate treatment charges (TCs) rose in February deals for spot cargoes with liquidity sinking over the Lunar New Year and while market participants became insular ahead of annual contract negotiations.Fastmarkets assessed zinc concentrate TCs at $215-250 per tonne on February 22 from $210-240 per tonne in January, which reflects the gap between the low volumes of trader and smel...Read More
Coal trading has become too risky, a trader remarked on Thursday February 21 amid news that customs authorities in Dalian, a major city in northeastern China, had slashed the yearly coal import quota for ports under their jurisdiction by 25%.The fallout of the move, which is expected to affect Australian coal shipments, came in the form of a weakening of the Australian dollar amid concerns about p...Read More
Today, most governments, including the US, are already ensnared in a debt trap - only the public has yet to realise the consequences and the planners are not about to tell them. The difficulty for nearly all governments is the deterioration in their finances will eventually wipe out their currencies unless a solution is found.A currency board system is not the best mechanism whereby currency is ma...Read More
Copper's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange continued its strong performance at the close of trading on Friday February 22, reaching a seven-month high, while low LME stocks and a fresh cancelation of more than 37,000 tonnes in the morning supported the price.Trading was at its highest level since July 2018, and only a month earlier copper's three-month price had reached levels in exce...Read More
The seaborne coking coal market was quiet on Friday February 22 following a flurry of transactions through the week that sent prices of premium hard coking coal up by more than 4% over the week.Fastmarkets' cfr China Premium Hard Coking Coal Index was unchanged from the previous day at $212.60 per tonne on Friday, but up 4.8% from Monday, while the fob Australia Premium Ha...Read More
Canada's Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD), the world's second-largest gold producer, may eclipse its recent and perhaps overly-analyzed merger with Randgold Resources by buying rival gold major Newmont (NYSE:NEM) in a $19 billion all-share deal.Commenting on media speculation, the Canadian miner confirmed it had reviewed the opportunity to merge with the US miner in an all-share zero premium tran...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly higher during morning trading on Friday February 22, with three-month copper and nickel prices breaching nearby resistance levels, while trade sentiment around US-China trade talks continues to support commodity investments. Copper's three-month price continues to trade in an uptrend amid a decade-low in LME stocks, while traded volumes r...Read More
It's unimaginable what great progress China made in the last forty years. The rise of such economic power triggered many fears (or hopes) about the future international order. We invite you to read our today's article about the rivalry between China and the US and find whether the Red Dragon will replace America as a global hegemon. And what would such a shift mean for the gold market. &nb...Read More
Newmont Mining Corp. (NEM) shares jumped higher Friday amid reports that rival Barrick Gold Corp (GOLD) is prepping a hostile takeover bid that would value the mining group at around $19 billion. Canada's Globe & Mail Newspaper reported Friday that Barrick, the world's biggest gold producer and fresh off a $6.1 billion takeover of Randgold Resources, is looking to buy Newmont and dump...Read More
Published 20 Hours AgoUpdated6 Hours AgoReuters Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGold will continue to shine amid a weak dollar, says author and gold pro Jim Rickards.Gold was steady on Friday but still on track for a second weekly gain as sluggish U.S. economic data stoked worries about a global slowdown and investors awaited signals on U.S.-China trade talks.Spot gold was up 0.53 percen...Read More
The two biggest US stock market rallies (in the 1920s and in 1990) occurred when the budget deficit was disappearing or had disappeared.Today, the opposite is happening.No matter how much money the Fed prints, or what they do with their balance sheet, you can't spend more money than you make.The way you protect yourself from plans to demolish every house and kill all the cows is... gold. I mean, p...Read More
Nothing impacts gold prices quite like the Fed policy.Gold has appreciated by nearly 3,800% since the dollar decoupled from gold in the 1970s, and in that time, the U.S.'s monetary base exploded by roughly 4,300%.It appears that the Fed is about done with its tightening program, and an upcoming economic slowdown will likely push the Fed towards halting QT, lowering rates and implementing QE.Th...Read More