Battery bulls looking forward vs. macro bears focused...ACCESS RESTRICTEDTo read the rest of this analysis please take a free sample or subscribeFREE SampleReceive a free sample of market analysis and price forecasts.Free SampleSUBSCRIBEReceive unlimited access to all current and archive content going back to 2008 including downloadable pricing data and forecasts.Plus download the...Read More
Solid rebound at the start of...ACCESS RESTRICTEDTo read the rest of this analysis please take a free sample or subscribeFREE SampleReceive a free sample of market analysis and price forecasts.Free SampleSUBSCRIBEReceive unlimited access to all current and archive content going back to 2008 including downloadable pricing data and forecasts.Plus download the latest issue as soon as...Read More
China's rebar prices rebounded on Tuesday June 11 after Beijing urged local governments to issue special bonds to support economic growth and maintain a reasonable level of liquidity in the market.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,900-3,940 yuan ($563-569) per tonne, up 30-40 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,800-3,860 yuan per tonne, widened upward by 20 yuan per tonneThe State Council...Read More
Macro drivers continue to dominate Zinc...ACCESS RESTRICTEDTo read the rest of this analysis please take a free sample or subscribeFREE SampleReceive a free sample of market analysis and price forecasts.Free SampleSUBSCRIBEReceive unlimited access to all current and archive content going back to 2008 including downloadable pricing data and forecasts.Plus download the latest issue a...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were higher across the board during morning trading on Tuesday June 11, improving despite continued trade war uncertainty while both the United States and China continue to threaten additional tariffs. Climbing furthest over the morning, three-month nickel futures are now trading 2% higher and back above $11,850 per tonne after falling to an intraday...Read More
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With the exception of nickel that was little changed, base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were all up during morning trading on Tuesday June 11.The broad-based strength exhibited by the base metals comes amid an improvement in risk sentiment while market participants focus on an upcoming meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Group o...Read More
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U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures gained 17 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures responded to a 2.58% gain by the Shanghai Composite Index in overnight tradingEquity index futures were virtually unchanged following released of the May Producer Price Index at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase of 0.1% versus a gain of 0.2% in April. Actual was an incr...Read More
The domestic spot price for gallium in China has remained unchanged for around a month, with suppliers holding their offers steady despite persistently weak demand because some domestic alumina refiners were ordered to halt production, market sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday June 11.Fastmarkets assessed the price of Chinese domestic gallium, min 99.99%, at 950-980 yuan ($137-141) per kg on June...Read More
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What are the three elements of the perfect political and market storm I see coming together this fall?The first is an effort by the Democratic House of Representatives to impeach President Trump. The second is the socialist-progressive tilt in the 2020 presidential election field. The third is the fallout from the Mueller report and the Russia collusion hoax - what I and others called "Spygate."Th...Read More
People often refer to the "perfect storm." A perfect storm is generally understood as two or more events that are independent but converge to produce an outcome much worse than either event alone.The term is an overused clich?(C), and as a writer I avoid clich?(C)s whenever possible. But though rare, perfect storms do exist. The most common example is the devastating 1991 storm popularized by the...Read More
I read headlines all day and focus extensively, if not exclusively, on gold. If gold is the best form of money (it is), and if gold had unique properties as money (it does; it's the only form of money that is not also debt), then gold is well worth the focus.With that said, it's hard to surprise me on the subject. After a while, you think you've seen it all. Yet, there are exceptions. This headlin...Read More
There's nothing new about the Russian accumulation of gold bullion in their reserve position. It began in a material way in 2009 when Russia had about 600 metric tonnes of gold.Today, Russia has 2,183 metric tonnes, a stunning 264% increase in less than 10 years. Russia is the sixth-largest gold power in the world after the U.S., Germany, IMF, Italy and France.Russia's gold hoard is over 25% of th...Read More
The May unemployment report came rolling from the United States Department of Labor this morning.In the highly technical vernacular of the trade… it was a "miss."And not by a nose, not by a hair, not by a whisker.Economists as a group divined 175,000 May jobs.What was the actual number?Seventy-five thousand - fully 100,000 beneath consensus - and the lousiest figure since February.Each one o...Read More
Two Colorado School of Mines PhD students who helped former MythBuster Adam Savage build a real-life Iron Man suit for his new TV show, "Savage Builds," talked about the experience with local Denver TV reporters on June 10. Jesse Adamcyzk and Sarah Sortedahl are both PhD candidates in the material science program. Tune in to "Savage Builds" on June 14 at 8 p.m. Mountain on the Discovery Channel t...Read More
Los Andes Copper (TSXV: LA) says its Vizcachitas project - a copper-molybdenum porphyry deposit 150 km northeast of Santiago, in central Chile - will be the South American country's next major copper mine.The project, which would produce copper and molybdenum concentrates from an open-pit mine and concentrator, sits at a relatively low elevation of 2,000 metres above sea level, and is just 65 km f...Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) is taking part in a bought-deal offering by Midas Gold (TSX: MAX; US-OTC: MDRPF) to keep its pro rata interest in the junior exploration and development company with a gold project in central Idaho.Midas Gold is offering 33.2 million common shares at 60 ? per share for proceeds of $19.9 million, which will help advance a feasibility study and permitting at its St...Read More
Lithium's next generationSPONSOREDneo lithiumHot Chili secures copper 'super hub' SPONSOREDhot chili limitedVimy ready for move to higher uranium groundSPONSOREDvimy resourcesFinally, a changed mining tech M&A landscapeSPONSOREDatricoThe IMTSI wrote to company executives on April 5 to request the release of key information around all their companies' tailings facilities.Read More