By: Ira EpsteinGold is thrusting higher and now looking at prior highs, watch these key resistance and breakout levels. Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.Read More
Domestic prices for ferrous scrap in Italy have jumped over the past month due to low scrap collection in Europe, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday May 15.Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for steel scrap, No E8 (thin new production steel scrap), domestic, delivered mill Italy was ?,?240-250 ($259-270) per tonne on May 15, up from ?,?210-230 per tonne in the middle of April. The assessment is...Read More
Domestic prices for ferrous scrap in Germany have been supported by tight scrap availability in the European market, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday May 15.Supply has been reduced due to lower scrap collection volumes and reduced new scrap availability from the automotive industry because of the measures used to battle the spread of Covid-19.The construction industry in Germany remained fairly...Read More
Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices fell on Friday May 15, with a steel mill managing to book a European cargo at a lower price than shipments earlier in the week, sources told Fastmarkets. 15.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a European cargo, comprising 20,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $238 per tonne, 6,000 tonnes of shredded at $243 per tonne and 6,000 tonnes of bonus at $248 per to...Read More
Hopes that the global economic engine fires up on the first attempt may be asking a lot given second waves of Covid-19 infections emerging, and the fact global leaders are not pulling together is not helping underlying sentiment this morning, Friday May 15, with US President Donald Trump at loggerheads with China. On the economic front, data out of China supports our view that the supply side of t...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
In China, the domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate price fell by 2.3% with battery-grade hydroxide prices down by 2.9% on Thursday May 14 while weak downstream demand pressured more producers to lower prices to boost sales and the Asian seaborne lithium carbonate market fell.China's battery-grade lithium carbonate price edged down on unimproved downstream demand.China's lithium hydroxide...Read More
Brazilian steelmaker Companhia Sider??rgica Nacional (CSN) will try to apply price increases to flat steel products next month, to compensate for the recent loss of value of the local currency."With the current value of the dollar [versus the Brazilian Real], a price increase is unavoidable; it is a matter of survival," commercial director Luis Martinez said during the company's first-quarter earn...Read More
Word is, Jeff Bezos - the mastermind behind Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) - could become the world's first trillionaire. And people are losing their shit.Look at some of these tweets ...There are definitely a lot of folks talking about how poorly he treats his employees.And I suppose an argument could be made for that. Although I haven't seen any mass exodus of Amazon employees. Folks also argue that...Read More
Today is Thursday, May 14, 2020, and this is your daily gold market update. Let's look at the latest price of gold, value of the dollar, gold/silver ratio, Commitment of Traders data, and exchange-traded fund (ETF) prices to get a sense of how the yellow metal is faring today.Gold PriceThe price of one troy ounce of gold in U.S. dollars today is $1,732.55. It's up 0.11% from yesterday and up 33.44...Read More
Import prices for flat-rolled steel were either stable or higher in South America during the week to Friday May 15, with Chinese mills presenting more expensive offers while customer interest remained lackluster amid lockdowns due to Covid-19."There were no consultations for potential imports in the past few weeks in Brazil," a trader source said. "I call clients and they don't even want to listen...Read More
Today is Thursday, May 14, 2020, and this is your daily energy stocks roundup. Today we're looking at the valuations of Par Pacific Holdings (NYSE: PARR), Targa Resources Corporation (NYSE: TRGP), and Brigham Minerals (NYSE: MNRL).Par Pacific Holdings (NYSE: PARR)Par Pacific Holdings (NYSE: PARR) is a $417.98 million company today with a one-year return of -62.33%. Let's look at its price-to-earni...Read More
In this week's free Insights newsletter, we highlight a cryptocurrency stock that has been moving up the INK Edge charts. The move comes just as we have launched realtime digital currency quotes on Canadian Insider. Charts and live crypto quotesWe also have a special offer that will help you track the latest trends in Bitcoin and other asset classes as we move through these tricky COVID-19 times...Read More
As I posted in INK Chat earlier this month, we are providing links to Coinberry, a Toronto-based digital currency platform. For those that have the risk tolerances to use a crypto trading platform, they may want to consider Coinberry.Founded in 2017, Coinberry is a financial technology company focused on blockchain and digital currency solutions and provides a platform to buy and sell digital ass...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe have been under downward pressure from limited demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday May 15.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was ?,?411.88 ($444.86) per tonne on Friday, down by ?,?1.45 per tonne from ?,?413.33 per tonne on Thursday.Friday's index was calculated based on "workable" prices and...Read More
A new resource war has begun. But this time the war is not over oil... Or gold... Or clean water... Or any other material which has traditionally sparked resource wars. No, the new resource war will be over a lesser-known group of substances: rare-earth elements.Rare-earth elements -- sometimes called rare-earth metals or rare-earth minerals -- are a vital component in most of the technology we us...Read More
Today on INK Ultra Money we hear from a former Bank of Canada and Bank for International Settlements rebel. William White had been sounding the alarm bells from within the system for years. Now he seems resigned to wide-spread debt restructurings.We also look at a Utility stock that is heading into the INK Canadian Insider Index on Friday which has scored a big investment from one of Canada's be...Read More
Domestic prices for ferrous scrap in Italy have jumped over the past month due to low scrap collection in Europe, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday May 15.Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for steel scrap, No E8 (thin new production steel scrap), domestic, delivered mill Italy was ?,?240-250 ($259-270) per tonne on May 15, up from ?,?210-230 per tonne in the middle of April. The assessment is...Read More
Domestic steel rebar prices in Poland declined again this week on slower market demand, sources told Fasmarkets on Friday May 15.Buying activity in the Polish rebar market was reported to be slow this week, with trading companies shunning purchases due to payment issues, sources said."Insurance companies are reducing credit lines, which could cause additional big problems to everybody. May seems t...Read More