Turkish steel producers continued to book more deep-sea scrap cargoes for August shipments, with prices rising further, sources said on Monday July 1.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo, comprising 20,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $293 per tonne and 20,000 tonnes of bonus at $303 per tonne cfr, late on June 28.The same mill also booked a European cargo on Friday, compri...Read More
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Gold and Bitcoin have seen some selling pressure over the past couple of days. Gold peaked on Monday and Bitcoin late on Wednesday. The key reversal patterns were unmistakable in both. The metal and the crypto both made recent highs and had dramatic sell offs from the highs.On Monday as it looked like Gold was going to the moon and traded as high as 1442, though it fell apart falling about 3% sinc...Read More
In the process of standardizing the names of its prices, Fastmarkets has found that the unit of measurement on some of its value-in-use iron ore indices was displaying incorrectly.In the four indices listed in the table below, the unit of measure had been listed as US cents per tonne or US dollars per dry metric tonne unit (dmtu). The correct value, to which the indices have now been standardized,...Read More
Point one...Our analysis has indicated that we have been in a positive market (bull market) for gold and some gold stocks since 2015. But it depends on which ones! Some have already moved sharply up but a major move up will come later with more stocks participating as the gold bullion price rises above $1500 and perhaps...Read More
Turkish domestic scrap prices remained largely steady over the past week, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday July 1, with most steel producers keeping their buy prices unchanged. However, domestic scrap prices are expected to recover from this point on, in line with the upturn in the imported scrap values, they added.Only two steel mills have slightly reduced their buy prices - for auto...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses why he believes silver is amazingly cheap and a sure sign that a major precious metals sector bull market is starting. We have already been over the reasons why a major precious metals (PM) sector bull market is starting, and remarked on how undervalued silver is compared to gold, and how this is typical at the start of a major sector bull market. But it is...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts the reasons why the recent gold breakout is genuine. It has been a truly glorious month for gold, and the purpose of this update is to point out firstly that the gold breakout of the past week was genuine and secondly that any short-term reaction back as far as $1,380 or even $1,370 will not negate the breakout instead it should be seized upon as an opportunit...Read More
CIS steel billet producers continued to increase their offer prices for foreign customers on Monday July 1, following the recent surge in import scrap prices in Turkey and iron ore prices in China.This pushed up Fastmarkets' daily CIS export billet index to $420 per tonne fob Black Sea on Monday, against $415 per tonne fob on June 28.Offers of Russian billet were heard in the market within the pri...Read More
Import prices for steel slab in Southeast Asia and East Asia were slightly lower over the week to July 1, although market participants were optimistic that prices were bottoming out amid a recovery in the Chinese flat steel markets and rising raw material costs.Downstream flat steel producers are likely to follow their Chinese counterparts in increasing prices amid the rebound in the Chinese steel...Read More
Prices for Chinese rebar increased sharply on Monday July 1 in both the domestic and export markets following signs of an improvement in trade relations between China and the United States over the weekend.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 4,030-4,070 yuan ($587-593) per tonne, up 70 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,950-3,990 yuan per tonne, up 100-110 yuan per tonneUS President Donald T...Read More
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The S&P hit a record intraday peakNews of a trade truce between the U.S. and China sparked a stock surge out of the gate today, sending the Dow up 290 points in early trading and the S&P 500 to a fresh record high. However, a lack of details from the meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping and some lackluster factory data had the major indexes paring their earlier gains. The Nasdaq...Read More
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KeyBanc gave 3 reasons it likes Six Flags stockStocks are trading at all-time highs today thanks to the positive trade developments between the U.S. and China. Three names making big moves are financial data provider Cardlytics Inc (NASDAQ:CDLX), cosmetics concern Coty Inc (NYSE:COTY), and amusement park operator Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE:SIX). Here's how the shares of CDLX, COTY, and SIX...Read More
Take advantage of the first amendment, and participate in a nation-wide poll.With the 2020 election growing ever closer, the country continues to be divided politically.From disputes about the appropriateness of displaying the Confederate flag, to rights for minorities, and the ever-growing concern about security at the U.S. border, the 2020 election promises to be contentious... if not the most c...Read More
A historically bearish signal just flashed on the charts for 3D Systems stockThe 3-D printing concern 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) has been suffering on the charts after an early May bear gap caused the stock to bottom out at a two-year low of $7.81 in mid-June. While the beginnings of a rally can be seen on the charts, the stock quickly lost steam at its 60-day moving average today. This wou...Read More
The fund is higher today on U.S.-China trade buzzThe iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) is 1% higher at $43.35, boosted by this weekend's upbeat U.S.-China trade headlines. The positive price action has the emerging markets exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading at levels not seen since early May, and one options bull scrambling to up the ante.With roughly two hours left to go in today's trading,...Read More