A 16-minute North Korean propaganda video has been published on YouTube. The video points to efforts to sell the public on a new era of peace that is inevitably coming.Continue...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne the show for a general discussion on the gold market. We start with some of the technical factors, that while overbought, are a longer term positive sign for the bulls. We also address the recation in the stocks and weigh what it all means with US markets heading to all time highs with gold breaking out.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Marke...Read More
Import prices for stainless steel in East Asia rose over the past week following a surge in the price of nickel.Producers will attempt to sustain the upward trend in stainless steel prices going forward under the pretext of higher nickel costs, a trader in Taiwan said.But a trader in northern China said the jump in the price of nickel had been too abrupt and buyers are likely to be unwil...Read More
* Landslide at KCC mine last week killed 43 people * Activists fear standoff with army could lead to violence * Evicted miners pillaged local stores - rights activist (Adds army comment, detail about arrests)By Aaron RossDAKAR, July 4 (Reuters) - Congolese security forces evictedthousands of illegal miners from a copper and cobalt mine run byGlencore on Thursday, sparking angry protests outsidethe...Read More
Powell will join a number of Fed speakers, while the FOMC minutes are also dueThe first full trading week of July will be relatively quiet on the earnings front, but there's plenty of action on the economic side. In addition to a pair of inflation updates, several central bank speakers -- including repeat performances from Fed Chair Jerome Powell -- and the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) J...Read More
The European Commission (EC) should remove its 5% import quota increase as it makes safeguard measures ineffective and puts jobs in the EU steel segment at risk, the European steel association (Eurofer) said on July 3."We call on the EC to heed our call and those of member states that have already expressed concerns about the rise - and to respond by undoing this out-of-step expansion before it fu...Read More
Turkish authorities are considering whether to launch a trade defense case against imports of hot-rolled coil (HRC) from the EU, market sources have told Fastmarkets.European mills have increased their HRC export volumes recently, particularly to Turkey, due to the weak demand in their home markets."The start of an anti-dumping case against EU-origin HRC will entirely depend on the attitude of the...Read More
Dr. Ron Paul & Chris Waltzek Ph.D. - July, 2nd, 2019.* Mp3.HighlightsFounder of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace And Prosperity returns to the show with his case for restoring a gold-backed US dollar. In the Ron Paul Liberty Report last month, Dr. Paul noted, "The Fed Can't Save Us, But Gold Can," in response to the new rate cut cycle.He outlines how this event could mark the beginning of...Read More
The gold and silver markets rarely get much love on Wall Street and from the average investors who only listen attentively to what CNBC and stock brokers have to say.Nearly a decade of underperformance in the metals markets certainly isn’t helping draw attention. Recently, the gold market started to move, and the rising price has thus far gone mostly unnoticed.Everyone is watching the equity...Read More
Demand for flat steel in Turkey failed to improve in June even after the United States halved its import tariffs for Turkish steel to 25%, market participants told Fastmarkets.And local producers have now filled their order books until late August, they said on Wednesday July 3. Turkish steel prices started to rise on May 17 after US import duties of 50% introduced in August 2018 were cut to...Read More
When last we left the 3 Metallic Amigos… I can’t remember the detailed individual statuses and am too busy to go read the post. They were something like borderline hysterical gold, attractive silver and bouncing (but not yet bullish) copper. So here’s today’s update on these Amigos.Gold is testing the high today after not even pulling a 38% Fib retrace. A real bull market...Read More
On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, the price of Crude Oil fell over -4.5% on continued expectations of global economic weakness and supply gluts. We found this interview rather interesting because it attempts to suggest a narrative that ignores Iranian issues while pushing the supply side fundamental for the current price decline (Source: CNBC).Back on May 21, 2019, we shared a post that is still ver...Read More
Key data from the July 4 pricing session in London and Shanghai.Fastmarkets' benchmark daily fob Australia alumina index declined to $318.10 per tonne on Thursday July 4 from $319.28 per tonne on the previous day. It remains at its lowest since August 2017 and is down by 12% from $363.08 per tonne on June 4.Chinese free market, metallurgical grade alumina fell to 2,700-2,750 yuan ($400.20) per ton...Read More
I would like to start out this Report by looking at a long term monthly chart for the GDX. The multi year bear market actually began in September of 2011 at the head portion of the 3 1/2 year H&S top. The H&S top actually began to form in September of 2009 and ended in February of 2013 when the price action broke below the neckline. From that point the GDX declined for the next three years...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed at the close of trading on Thursday July 4, with price movements largely subdued by a national holiday in the United States while volumes traded were markedly lower.Over the afternoon, tin's three-month price continued its ascent back above $18,000 per tonne, climbing by more than 4% to close at $18,350 per tonne.The metal was subject to i...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 oppor...Read More
The market for pig iron exports from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has strengthened over the past week following rises in the prices for iron ore and ferrous scrap.Fastmarkets' price assessment for low-manganese pig iron exports, fob main port Baltic Sea, CIS, was up by $5 per tonne to $355-360 per tonne on July 4.Offers of material from Russia's Tulachermet to Europe were reported...Read More
Dr. Ron Paul & Chris Waltzek Ph.D. - July, 2nd, 2019.* Mp3.HighlightsFounder of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace And Prosperity returns to the show with his case for restoring a gold-backed US dollar. In the Ron Paul Liberty Report last month, Dr. Paul noted, "The Fed Can't Save Us, But Gold Can," in response to the new rate cut cycle.He outlines how this event could mark the beginning of...Read More
Growth in South African manganese ore exports continued to slow in the first six months of 2019, shipping data shows. Manganese ore exports from South Africa climbed by about 8% to 8.97 million tonnes in the first six months of the year from the same period in 2018.This compares with an increase of 17% year on year between January-June 2017 and January-June 2018. In the relevant period of 2017, ex...Read More
Gold hit our first upside target of $1,435 per ounce and rallied as high as $1,442 per ounce before reversing dramatically, declining 4% to a low of $1,385 in a just five days.It now takes 92 ounces of silver to buy one ounce of gold. This is hard to imagine considering that gold is only 15 times rarer than its pauper cousin.Should gold continue to rally, our conservative upside target for its pau...Read More