There were widespread rises in global ferrous scrap prices in the week ended Friday March 8, due to stable demand from end-users in key importing markets, Fastmarkets heard.Turkish steelmakers were buying imported materials to shore up their inventories, while buyers in Asia were purchasing spot cargoes to hedge against future price increases.TurkeyScrap prices in the Turkish import market began t...Read More
The LaCroix parent's CEO said the company is "truly sorry"The shares of National Beverage Corp. (NASDAQ:FIZZ) are down 25.3% at $51.01 in early trading, after the LaCroix parent reported disappointing earnings and revenue for its fiscal third quarter. National Beverage CEO Nick Caporella said the company is "truly sorry" for the nearly 40% drop in profit, and said "much of this was the result of i...Read More
JPMorgan thinks Costco could announce a special dividendCostco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) is trading up 4% at $225.50, after the company's fiscal second-quarter earnings came in substantially higher than analysts expected, with investors applauding an easing of pricing pressure in the grocery business. Several price-target hikes have come through following the report, and UBS set the high...Read More
This is the worst jobs report since September 2017Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are trading 185 points below fair value, with the blue-chip index poised to extend its daily losing streak. Stocks are under a double-dose of pressure after China reported a 20% year-over-year drop in exports last month, fueling concerns about a global economic slowdown. And back home, investors are diges...Read More
UK prices for alloy steel scrap have moved up over the past week due to higher costs for nickel, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday March 8.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic UK 18/8 stainless steel scrap solids was ?830-870 ($1,090-1,143) per tonne delivered on March 8. This was up from ?800-840 per tonne delivered a week earlier, reflecting transactions heard in the market."Nick...Read More
After gold's move up from its September 2018 low, remaining patient a while longer should provide an even better entry point for the sector.Lower levels into the $1,112 region in gold and the $15.50 region in GDX are still very much in the cards.We will be watching the retracement levels closely on the next pull back.When the metals and miners complex start a sustaining move to the upside, it...Read More
Artificial intelligence may revolutionize trading.Sometimes watching the market can feel like riding a roller coaster.Many investors feel glued to the news, watching the market rise and fall hundreds of points, day after day, week after week.But savvy traders know these market conditions mean huge profit potential for anyone that knows how to trade them.And one "secret" that more and more traders...Read More
PLEASE NOTE: THE COT REPORT SCHEDULE IS NOW UP-TO-DATE & ON ITS NORMAL SCHEDULE WITH THE RELEASE OF THIS REPORT. Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 202,628114,61059,730155,732269,729418,090444,069 Change from Prior Reporting Period -34,20713,471-5,6729,690-36,158-30,189-28,359 Traders 18568814952269168 Small Speculator...Read More
The widely-held mega-cap stocks that dominate the US markets recently finished reporting their Q4'18 financial results. Because the tenor of stock markets changed radically last quarter, this latest earnings season is more important than usual. An extreme monster bull market suddenly rolled over into a severe near-bear correction in Q4. How major corporations fared offers insights into whe...Read More
The current stock bull market, already the longest in U.S. history, turns 10 years old this month. It's been a phenomenally profitable time to participate, especially if you've stuck to an investment strategy that favors dividend-paying stocks. As you can see in the chart below, the amount of cash that S&P 500 Index companies have returned to shareholders has grown each year since 2009. In the f...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Market manipulation by governments and central banks is right out in the open again, hiding in plain sight in the confidence that mainstream financial news organizations, financial letter writers, and gurus who purport to bring "technical analysis" to bear on markets will avert their gaze.For as GATA's friend Jim Anderson of SD Bullion Inc. in Michigan pointed out th...Read More
By: Richard Mills, Ahead of the herd On Monday Newmont Mining rejected a $17.8 billion hostile takeover by Canada's Barrick Gold. Speculation has been running wild over whether the two major gold miners would combine to make a $42-billion gold goliath three times the market cap of the nearest competitor, Australia's Newcrest Mining. We now know that deal is kaput. Newmont's board of directors...Read More
By: IRA EPSTEINEU cuts back its growth forecasts. ECB update. Gold under a down thrust from a strong US Dollar. Inflation around the world not an issue right now. Gold on pause of this bear leg... Gold close to support?Read More
March 8, 2019, Vancouver, B.C. - Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (TSX.V: NEE) (OTC Nasdaq Intl.: NHVCF) (the "Company" or "Northern Vertex") is pleased to announce a record shipment of an estimated 1,004 ounces of gold was sent from the Moss Mine, located in Northwest Arizona, to a third party refiner. These ounces were produced over a nine day period during late February, which represents a sign...Read More
By: Stefan Gleason, Money MetalsPreppers - the sort of people who build bunkers, stockpile supplies, and bear arms - aim to survive "SHTF" scenarios.When war breaks out, when the power grid goes down, when the banks fail, when the U.S. dollar collapses, when social unrest spreads, when the stuff hits the fan... will you be prepared?Risks are rising.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists maintains...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerSomeone last week suggested that Trump sees the stock market as the barometer measuring the success of his Presidency. I think his behavior, tweets, press comments, etc with respect to the stock market validates that assertion.The Dow trended lower all week last after Monday's close. Whenever the stock market faded from an early run-up or began a rapid sell-off, a Trump tweet o...Read More
Full Article: The return to a gold exchange standardBy: Alasdair MacleodThis article makes the obvious point that a return to a gold standard is the only way nations can contain the interest cost of servicing debt, given the alternative is inflationist policies that can only lead to far higher interest rates and currency destruction. The topic is timely, given the self-harm of American economic a...Read More
Gold looks to be in the middle of its intermediate decline.We could bottom, though, earlier than many expect.The rally in the dollar is already losing momentum, which should be bullish for gold.We wrote about gold recently and stated that we believed the yellow metal had started its intermediate decline. We also have stated though that we believe it is very important for traders to keep some type...Read More
Would you believe that March and April, historically, shows a 2 to 1 statistical probability of NG moving higher. Each of these months shows, historically, that NG has a strong potential for at least a $1.00 upside price move in both March and April. Only 1/3 of the historically testing time (23 years) did the price of NG actually decrease.How do we know this? We've built proprietary price m...Read More
The ECB eased its monetary stance. It launched another round of cheap loans to banks and promised to keep interest rates unchanged this year. It means that Draghi will not hike during his presidency. What does it all mean for the gold market? ECB Unveils New Monetary Stimulus in Response to Slowdown The ECB left its interest rates unchanged. But it pushed out the timing of its first post-crisis ra...Read More