By: Stefan Gleason, In a once rare property crime now trending higher around the world, thieves are stealing precious metals from automobiles.These opportunistic criminals don't bother rummaging through glove compartments in the hope of finding stashed jewelry or gold coins. Instead, they go for the near certain score of exposed catalytic converters.A car's catalytic converter is attached to its...Read More
Iron ore prices jumped on Thursday March 14 amid a positive destocking of steel products in China and signs of loosening restrictions on steelmaking operations.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $87.26 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $2.48 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $86.38 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $2.48 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $89.50 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $2.80...Read More
(Adds details from GE, analyst comment, updates share price)By Alwyn Scott and SanjanaShivdasMarch 14 (Reuters) - General Electric Co ChiefExecutive Larry Culp on Thursday set conservative profit targetsfor this year and staked his reputation on hitting them anddoing better in 2020 and beyond, igniting a rally in the stock.Culp's detailed pep talk, which drew praise from Wall Streetanalysts on a c...Read More
* FTSE 100 up 0.4 pct * FTSE 250 up 0.6 pct * Oil majors, financials lead gains* TUI jumps on analyst rating upgrade* Anglo American, CRH fall on ex-dividend trading * Just Group tanks after equity raising plans * Marshalls hits life high on upbeat results (Updates with closing prices)By Shashwat Awasthi and Muvija MMarch 14 (Reuters) - UK shares bagged another session ofgains as financials cheere...Read More
Turkish billet prices have continued to rise due to improved demand in the export and domestic markets in addition to the latest growth in imported scrap costs, sources said on Thursday March 14.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic billet was $460-470 per tonne ex-works on March 14, up from the $450-460 per tonne of last week.Long steel producer Kardemir opened its local billet sales...Read More
Allianz Chief Economic Advisor and global macro strategist Mohamed El-Erian sits down with Andy Serwer editor-in-chief for Yahoo Finance to discuss how the United States is now perceived in the global economy, his career as an economist, the value of fundamentals, long term investing, challenges at Harvard University, the Federal Reserve and uncertainty with the economy.He also discusses how his d...Read More
"We've been living on borrowed time."David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and he is the author of The Great Deformation: Th...Read More
Steel billet import prices in Egypt have increased over the past seven days with higher offers being heard, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday March 14.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet imported into Egypt was $475-480 per tonne cfr on Thursday, rising from $470-475 per tonne cfr last week.CIS-origin billet was offered to the country at $480 per tonne cfr, but no major bookin...Read More
Link to the Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/centr...Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we ne...Read More
* Another Brexit votes loom * Goldman Sachs more optimistic * Leonardo top gainer after results * Lufthansa, autos falls (Adds closing prices, details)By Julien Ponthus and Helen ReidLONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - European shares rose to afive-month high on Thursday, boosted by strength in the bankingsector after Britain's parliament voted to reject a disorderlyBrexit.Sentiment improved from cautiou...Read More
At the direction of the President, subject to congressional approval, the United States intends to provide $5 million for the continuation of the vital, life-saving operationsContinue...Read More
"This is the final chance," the failed Senate candidate from Texas advised. "The scientists are absolutely unanimous on this - that we have no more than 12 years to take incredibly Continue...Read More
Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics. Dr. Roberts is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on...Read More
B.C.'s biggest mining mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in 2018 doubled in value to $9.5 billion compared with $4.6 billion in 2017, which was the second-lowest-valued year for M&As since 2013.Despite the impressive growth in 2018, the annual value of B.C.'s mining M&As still has a long way to go to reach the 2015 high of $10.4 billion. In recent years, the average mining M&A deal value has grown fa...Read More
On March 14 the Mining Association of Canada released the latest edition of its annual Facts & Figures report that provides a comprehensive overview of the trends affecting Canada's mining sector. It contains the unwanted truth that this country's competitiveness continues to erode.Canada is losing its ability to seize new opportunities for growth and it is essential the federal and provincial gov...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
Toronto-based Metals Creek Resources is passing along the latest drill results from its Garrison gold project 35 km northwest of Kirkland Lake. The property has two distinct anomalies - the 1,000-metre long Southern anomaly that has historic drilling results and the 600-metre long Northern anomaly that has not been tested.Two holes last year targeted the Southern anomaly. The first hole had no sig...Read More
In a seemingly coordinated media campaign, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank indicate more negative rates are on the horizon, which would be the firstContinue...Read More
After four straight months of inflows, holdings in global gold-backed ETFs and similar products fell in February by 33 tonnes to 2,479t, equivalent to $1.3 billion in outflows, and gold trading volumes decreased 5% below the 2018 averages to $104 billion per day, according to data from the World Gold Council (WGC).However, global gold-backed ETF flows remain positive on the year ($1.7 billion) on...Read More
Michael Schaus, director of market research for Brenton Point Wealth Advisors LLC and Zweig-DiMenna, stops by the office to discuss the current outlook and to remember the great investor Martin Zweig.1:37 The European Central Bank takes it easy6:40 Negative interest rates, back in vogue12:39 Market cap to GDP: An useful indicator?20:50 Weighing stock picking vs. macro James "Jim" Grant is an Ameri...Read More