Rebar suppliers have increased their prices for buyers in Russia's Central federal district, the major steel-consuming region in the country, on seasonally improved demand in the secondary market.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic 12mm A500C rebar in Russia, including 20% VAT, was 39,000-40,000 roubles ($603-618) per tonne cpt Moscow on Monday March 25, up from 38,500-39,000 roubles...Read More
By: Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsLast week, I ranted about the problem with our monetary system and trajectory: falling interest rates is Keynes' evil genius plan to destroy civilization. This week, I continue the theme if in a more measured tone addressing the ideas predominant among the groups who are most likely to fight against Keynes' destructionism. They are: the capitalists, the gold bugs...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 1.85 percent on Citi recommendation and hedge funds boosting the net long position in the past week. Gold traders and analysts are bullish again this week, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey, as the Federal Reserve adopted a more dovish tone and indicated it won't raise interest rates this year. Several countries went shopping f...Read More
By: RambusThere is a ratio chart, $Gold:$XAU, we haven't looked at in quite awhile that has helped us in the past to locate some important turning points for the PM stocks. I'm not going to get into all the details tonight but this ratio chart shows you just how undervalued the $XAU or precious metals stocks in general are to gold itself. From the mid 1980's to the 2008 GFC crash the horizontal...Read More
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, March 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") today announced it has begun the initial stages of gold processing by applying and circulating leach solution to ore loaded on the heap leach pad at the Isabella Pearl Project, within its Nevada Mining Unit, located in Mineral County, Nevada. The Company not only remains...Read More
It's tempting to think last week's high at 2866.00 (click on inset) will mark the final gasp of an exceptionally powerful bear rally. If so, it will have occurred in a place where we might have expected Mr. Market to spring a nasty trap on bulls and bears alike. The latter would have thrown in the towel and covered short positions when the S&Ps broke out over the last two weeks above three des...Read More
Turkish steel mills added two more cargoes to round off last week's activity before going quiet in the deep-sea scrap markets after the government's response to Donald Trump's Golan Heights comments. A steel producer in the Marmara region booked a US cargo, comprising 35,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $323 per tonne cfr and 5,000 tonnes of bonus at $333 per tonne late on Friday March 22.The same...Read More
Richard Hayes is CEO of The Perth Mint. In this episode, he answers questions about Perth Mint products as well as global gold supply and demand trends.Read More
Turkish domestic auto-bundle scrap prices have gone up over the past seven days, while ship scrap prices fell because the country's lira has weakened against the US dollar, sources said on Monday March 25.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic auto-bundle (DKP-grade) scrap in Turkey was TRY1,700-1,870 ($295-324) per tonne delivered on Monday, widening upward from last week's TRY1,700-1,...Read More
The "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks as risk assets are due for another meltdown.It's only a matter of time until the bearish bet pays off big, according to Crescat Capital LLC. While the Denver-based firm has only about $50 million under management, it has a history of outperforming the S&P 500 Index - with its Global Macro Fund returning 41 percent last year alone. Now the i...Read More
As congressional Democrats call on the Justice Department to release the full Mueller report, we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who have closely followed the probes into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election: Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept and a leading critic of the media coverage of alleged Russian collusion, and David Cay Johnston, formerly of The New York Tim...Read More
Physical iron ore prices were rangebound on Monday March 25 amid mixed news about Australian and Brazilian supplies.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $85.81 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.15 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $84.93 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.15 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $87.40 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.95 per tonne. MB 58% Fe Premium Index: $7...Read More
As someone whose website was slandered by the earliest manifestations of the hysterical Russiagate mob, I could go on and on now that's the whole spectacle's been disproven, but Continue...Read More
It's been a boring few years for gold miners in general and junior gold miners in particular. The metal has been in a trading range, capital has been relatively scarce, and Continue...Read More
China has acted as part of the life support system for the global economy during the past two decades. The other part being comprised of central banks. When the Tech Bubble Continue...Read More
My office is right in the heart of Vancouver's financial district above an exchange where you can get dollars, gold or most any other international currency. Continue...Read More
Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London's Resonance FM, and writes for The Huffington Post. Keiser invented "Virtual Specialist Technology," a software system used by the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Prior to inventing this technology, he worked on Wall Street where...Read More
Amarillo Gold (TSXV: AGC) has reinterpreted its resource model for the Posse gold deposit at its Mara Rosa gold project in Goias State, Brazil, and with it updated the project's resource estimate. The company says its new model fundamentally alters its understanding of mineralization at Posse.The updated resource model spans three contiguous zones and includes a higher grade core that Amarillo cou...Read More
Reporting by Carlos Garcia, Carlos Jasso, Diego Ore and Brian Ellsworth in Caracas, and Maria Tsvetkova and Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber in Moscow; Editing by Leslie Adler and Chris ReeseContinue...Read More