There were varied expectations for the development of the CIS export slab market in the week ended Monday June 8.Some market participants expected prices to pick up following the recent rises in raw materials prices - iron ore and scrap, in particular - as well as the recent successful sales of material from both the Black Sea and Russia's Far East ports to Asia."We intend to increase prices this...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 312,70253,75671,633160,282447,104544,617572,493 Change from Prior Reporting Period 14,594-7,79811,7925426,72626,44030,720 Traders 21670735460298178 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 61,33233,456605,949 1,904-2,37628,344 non reportable positionsChan...Read More
"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute." William Feather, American publisher and author, 1889-1981 "Some calamities the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by t...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal for the week was palladium, which gained 2.11 percent as the market remains undersupplied with implementation of tougher emission standards in China. A Bloomberg survey of traders and analysts turned bullish for next week's price expectations. Gold recorded its best monthly advance s...Read More
Steel slab import prices in Southeast Asia and East Asia remained unchanged, despite the fall in iron ore prices, because market participants were holding back awaiting further clarity, sources said on Monday July 8.Fastmarkets' index for iron ore 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao, was $114.81 per tonne on July 5, down $3.66 per tonne from a week earlier.A slab producer in the Commonwealth of Independent...Read More
Links to slides and sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/recen...Question 1. Brendan F: If world governments at some point enact gold confiscation will they be obliged to pay compensation at spot price before revaluing gold higher?Question 2. Walker V: Seems like Gold is on the move, but Silver is not moving in conjunction?Question 3. Horace T: do you think that the gold spot price manipulatio...Read More
The boss of Instagram said the company is willing to make decisions that keep its users safe from online bullying, even if those decisions lead to decreased usage.Continue...Read More
Hypocrisy seems to have become a defining characteristic of US foreign policy, especially when it comes to Iran. After breaking the Iran deal last year and, de facto, forcing the Europeans to violate the deal in May, the US Administration is now complaining that Iran is no longer abiding by its obligations under the deal!It's remarkable to see Secretary of State Mike Pompeo take to Twitter to com...Read More
Oh, it's here alright.Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiarie...Read More
Greg Mannarino, founder of TradersChoice.net, says the only thing you can count on in this economy is more debt being created. Mannarino says, "World central banks' power exists in one thing, and that is their ability to issue debt. The more debt they issue, the stronger they become. So, they are loving this."Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm...Read More
Jason talks about Deutsche Bank desperately trying to save itself with new restructuring plans and asset sales. Jason Burack is an investor, entrepreneur, financial historian, Austrian School economist, and contrarian. Jason co-founded the startup financial education company Wall St for Main St, LLC, to try to help the people of Main Street by teaching them the knowledge, skills, research methods,...Read More
A higher tender price for silico-manganese in China for July improved sentiment and increased prices for low-grade manganese ore in the week ended on Friday July 5. Low-grade ore price increases in ChinaHigh-grade ore in China falls amid low liquidityEuropean alloys softenUS market rolls over for public holiday Low-grade seaborne manganese ore prices rose for the second consecutive week after Chi...Read More
"The time has come to put our money where our mouth is...The positives of easier policy will be offset by the negatives of weaker growth."Continue...Read More
The reason I put this together is to expose as many people as possible to this bizarre information. I hope journalists and criminal investigators dig deep into all this stuff Continue...Read More
According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday, President Trump's approval rating is the highest of his presidency.Continue...Read More
President Trump's Federal Reserve nominee Judy Shelton has long been a proponent of free trade and once advocated for an open border with Mexico back in 2000. Shelton would not Continue...Read More
Jason talks about former hedge fund manager, global macro investor and newsletter writer and Co-Founder of Real Vision TV, Raoul Pal's chart of the gold price versus the GMI currency basket. The GMI currency basket is made up of over 27 equally weighted currencies and the gold price is doing very well and is in clear bull market in those currencies, except for the US Dollar. Look up the gold price...Read More
A sharp drop in July ferro-chrome tender prices from China's leading mills triggered a further slide in spot ore and alloy prices last week. Spot ferro-chrome price dropped by 4.6% in ChinaUG2 chrome ore slid againAlloy prices under pressure in Japan and South KoreaEuropean alloy prices weaken again Chrome ore and ferro-chrome prices dropped in China in the week ended Friday July 5 after mills an...Read More
India's Ministry of Commerce & Industry has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into imports of flat-rolled stainless steel from 15 regions.The investigation covers flat-rolled stainless steel products imported between 2015 and March 2019, under HS code codes 7219 and 7220, from China, South Korea, the European Union, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, the United States, Thailand, South Africa, Me...Read More
The goal of the till geochemical survey is to identify high-grade drill targets in new areas, as well as increasing grade and tonnage at existing deposits, Resources Opportunities editor James Kwantes writes. The history of major metals discoveries is rife with stories of deposits that were only uncovered when geologists looked beyond existing mineralization systems, or considered new models. Som...Read More