An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Janie Davies, Dalila Ouerghi,...Read More
(Recasts, updates prices)* Gold eyes best week in more than 2 months* Platinum, palladium on course for weekly upticks* Lower yields complementing gains - analystNov 5 (Reuters) - Gold rose more than 1% on Friday to a near two-month high as major central banks' dovish tone on interest rates this week lifted the demand for the safe-haven metal.Spot gold was up 1.2% at $1,813.36 per ounce by 01:45 p...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - In Perth Mint's latest statistics, it has emerged that Perth Mint sold 59,750 troy ounces of gold and 1,352,275 troy ounces of silver in minted product form during October.The depository holdings...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Janie Davies, Dalila Ouerghi,...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - Bitcoin-U.S. dollar are weakeragain in early U.S. trading Friday. Bulls are keeping alive a price uptrend onthe daily bar chart. However, the recent sideways and choppy trading has nowformed a potentia...Read More
An overview of the energy transition raw materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday November 5.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - Anglo American said todaythat it has set an ambition to achieve carbon neutrality across its controlledocean freight activities by 2040, with an interim 30% reduction in emissions by2030. The company a...Read More
Ferrous scrap prices in the global markets were unstable in the week ended Friday November 5 because deep-sea import prices in Turkey, the biggest scrap importer, fell earlier. But they rebounded toward the end of the week, while suppliers in the United States were able to resist the decline because of strong domestic demand. Turkish import prices rebounded late in the week Strong domestic demand...Read More
Turkish steel producers ended the week with a total of five deep-sea scrap cargoes, with prices increasing throughout the week, market sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 5.A steel mill in the Izmir region booked a Baltic Sea cargo consisting of 11,000 tonnes of heavy melting scrap 1&2 (80:20) at $500 per tonne and 15,000 tonnes of shredded and 3,000 tonnes of bonus at $520 per tonne cfr l...Read More
Nov 5 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes hit record highs in a broad-based rally on Friday as data showing strong jobs growth in October, coupled with Pfizer's COVID-19 pill update, bolstered sentiment about economic growth.Ten of the 11 major S&P sectors advanced, with three of them gaining more than 1% each. The small-cap Russell 2000 index (.RUT) added 1.6%, also scaling a record peak...Read More
Prices for shredded steel scrap imported into Pakistan and India dipped on Friday November 5 after trading slowed for both markets, sources told Fastmarkets.PakistanFastmarkets calculated its weekly steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Port Qasim, Pakistan, at $557.89 per tonne on Friday, compared with $563.74 per tonne one week previous.Deals were heard at $552-562 per tonne in the reported...Read More
After two months of dismal job reports, the BLS finally redeemed itself when moments ago it reported that in October the US gained some 531K jobs, well above the 450K consensus exp and above the 500K whisper number. The gain in payrolls was also bigger than all but 10 of the 75 forecasts in Bloomberg's survey.As Bloomberg calculates, if payroll gains stay at the same pace as October's, in eight mo...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed on the morning of Friday November 5, but for the most part they were on a back foot and looking vulnerable. At the same time, base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mainly weaker while they tracked the weakness on the LME on Thursday, and because weaker coal prices in China are less likely to cause metal producers to cut...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - Novo Resources (TSX: NVO) announcedtoday that operations have resumed at its Golden Eagle processing facility inAustralia.The company said that theGolden Eagle Mill underwent opportunistic maintenance...Read More
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - U.S. employment increased more than expected in October as the headwind from the surge in COVID-19 infections over the summer subsided, offering more evidence that economic activity was regaining momentum early in the fourth quarter.But the brightening outlook was somewhat clouded by millions of unemployed Americans who remained at home even as companies are boosting...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - According to a data byStatistics Canada (StatCan) released yesterday, total exports from Canada weredown 2.3% in September to $53.0 billion, the first decline after threeconsecutive monthly increases.S...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) (NYSE:CGAU) today reported that net earnings and earnings from continuing operationsof $27.6 million were recognized in the third quarter of 2021, compared to netearnings of $20...Read More
United States-based lithium producer Livent has increased its revenue forecasts for October-December 2021 despite higher costs for energy and raw materials, it said on Thursday November 4.The company also noted the tight supply of lithium hydroxide and expected non-Chinese battery production to increase, according to its third-quarter financial results released on Thursday and a conference call on...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Governor Lael Brainard were spotted at the White House on Thursday as President Joe Biden mulls a decision on appointments at the central bank, according to a person close to the process.Biden has not yet made a decision on whom he wants to be Fed chair but expects to do so soon, according to the source.Investors believe Powell remains...Read More
An overview of the energy transition raw materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday November 5.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More