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Gold. It’s a must-have for any personal investment portfolio, providing a low-volatility scaffold with some passive-income and growth prospects. From the promise of multi-year capital gains to key safe-haven characteristics, gold stocks are a popular place to hide cash in choppy markets. But with risk ratcheting up in the stock markets, it’s becoming harder to find solid value for mone...Read More
The stock market crash early in 2020 caught most investors off guard. The pandemic and ensuing lockdown shook the world, and the global economies took a steep nosedive in April and March 2020. However, the stock markets have recovered to better valuations and are back to all-time highs.Several stocks have recovered to pre-pandemic valuations, and some companies are trading for higher valuations th...Read More
For years upon years, a handful of traders knew something fishy was going on in the futures market.Now, with the biggest penalty ever for this kind of illegal activity just announced, we're finally getting an idea of the scale of it, and it is shocking.JP Morgan is going to pay $920 million and is admitting wrongdoing for tens of trillions of dollars' worth of transactions, which number over 50,00...Read More
Oct 02, 2020 Guest(s): Will Rhind CEO, GraniteShares JPMorgan settled a $920 million fine with U.S. authorities on charges of precious metals price manipulation last week. This is significant because rumors and speculation about metals manipulation is confirmed in such a large profile case for the first time, said Will Rhind, CEO of GraniteShares."Throughout my career, there have always been the...Read More
The London Metal Exchange three-month copper price made an impressive comeback on Friday October 2, gaining 3.5%, amid strong turnover, on a day of positive moves for many of the base metals.The LME three-month copper price, which had tumbled 5.1% on Thursday, in its deepest sell-off since March 18, closed the day on Friday at $6,566 per tonne, with just over 24,000 lots traded.Fastmarke...Read More
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The benchmark fob Australia alumina index hit a three-month low on Friday October 2 with wide availability of cargoes and weak demand pressuring the market.Fastmarkets' daily alumina index, fob Australia was at $264.19 per tonne on Friday, down from $268.54 per tonne at the start of the week. The index is now at its lowest since July 9. A deal concluded on Thursday at $264 per tonne fob Western Au...Read More
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Key data from the pricing sessions in Europe, Asia and the United States for the week ending Friday October 2. China Tight availability of spot materials continued to consolidate the stability of domestic prices, with producers taking a firm stance on the higher costs of raw materials - including silica ore and semi-coke.The low end of export prices climbed by...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Europe, Asia and the United States for the week ending Friday October 2. China The seaborne price for the low-grade manganese ore slid further amid weakening market sentiment, falling portside prices and growing stocks. High-grade index was supported higher after miners refused to lower offers and some Chinese buyers accepted the price. Ports...Read More
Fastmarkets' copper concentrate treatment and refining charge (TC/RC) index moved down slightly on Friday October 2, with market activity light due to China's Golden Week National Day holiday (October 1-8).Fastmarkets' copper concentrates TC index, cif Asia Pacific was at $45 per tonne / 4.5 cents per lb on October 2, down from $45.50 per tonne / 4.55 cents per lb on September 25.Smelters elsewher...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesOct 02, 2020 Silver's dazzling parabolic surge this summer was overwhelmingly driven by enormous silver-ETF-share buying. Led by momentum-chasing millennial traders, unprecedentedly-huge amounts of stock-market capital deluged into the dominant SLV iShares Silver Trust silver ETF. But since silver's resulting lofty peak, silver-ETF-share selling has been mounting. An accelerat...Read More
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Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 was expected to be an important year for the rollout of 5G networks, with more operator launches globally and declining prices for smartphones and other 5G devices.While the rollout has been disrupted in the short term, the increase in remote working caused by lockdown measures has underscored the need for greater bandwidth capacity along with fast and reliable...Read More
Steel producers in Turkey returned to the deep-sea scrap markets on achieving lower prices in the week ended Friday October 2, while the Asian markets were largely stable amid reduced availability and holiday absences in the territory.Turkish steel mills resume deep-sea bookings, prices downSentiment in US export market negative, with falling pricesVietnamese import prices stable on reduced supply...Read More
The market for inter-merchant light iron scrap in the UK was steady for the third consecutive week on Friday October 2, with tighter supplies meeting firm demand from major shredders, industry sources told Fastmarkets.The supply issues were due to lower volumes being generated from heavy industry while the demand was for material to be used as feedstock in the steelmaking sector, they added.Fastma...Read More
Turkish steel mills continued booking deep-sea scrap at the end of the week after achieving lower deal prices, sources said on Friday October 2.A steel mill in the Marmara region paid $289 per tonne cfr for a Baltic Sea cargo of HMS 1&2 (80:20), while another mill in the same region booked two European cargoes at $284 per tonne cfr on an HMS 1&2 (80:20) basis. ...Read More
Chile expects investment of $74.05 billion in 49 new mining projects during the 2020-29 period, mainly in the copper sector, the country's mining ministry and the Chilean copper commission, Cochilco, said on Wednesday September 30.The latest list of investments in the Chilean mining industry represents an increase of $1.54 billion from $72.5 billion in the previous report, published last year. Som...Read More