Continue...Nouriel Roubini, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics, was Senior Economist for International Affairs in the White House's Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration. He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, the US Federal Reserve, and the World Bank.Read More

Today I want to tie together the pandemic, the economy and the election.What we are witnessing is a cascade of complex systems.Continue...Read More

The political climate is fragile and feverish, with the nation amid a crisis that is both fast-changing and unparalleled in living memory.Continue...Read More

On March 23 - the day the S&P dropped to its cycle low of 2,237 - the Fed stunned capital markets when it announced it would purchase investment grade corporate bonds, traversing a Rubicon into secondary Continue...Read More

Virginia reported 1,483 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday, the state's highest daily case count since the outbreak started.Continue...Read More

The typical hedge fund holds 71% of its long portfolio in its top 10 positions, up from 60% five years ago and just off the record high of 72% at the start of 2019Continue...Read More

Emerging-market equities are looking more fragile as valuations appear out-of-sync with earnings, especially given the increasingly bleak narrative surrounding virus cases and U.S.-China trade tensions.Continue...Read More

Tom welcomes back a past guest, Ravi Sood. Ravi is the Chairman of Galane Gold Ltd., an unhedged gold producer, and explorer.Time Stamp References:0:40 - Stock market valuations.4:35 - Fundamentals and sentiment.9:45 - Outlook for mining equities.15:50 - Paper vs. Physical price disparity.21:40 - Valuations in a rising gold environment.27:50 - Jurisdictions in Southern Africa.31:00 - Cost of labor...Read More

This week, Powell gave a long television interview and a testimony to the Senate. What groundbreaking did he say, and what do his remarks imply for the gold market?Powell Gives Interview and TestifiesPowell dominated media news this week. On Sunday, the Fed Chair gave an interview to CBS news magazine “60 Minutes,” while on Tuesday, he testified before Congress. What did he say? In an...Read More

Brazilian iron ore exports are not being affected by the increase in Covid-19 cases in the country, despite recent data showing a slowdown, Usiminas' mining arm director Carlos Rezzonico said in a conference call on Friday May 22.Minera????o Usiminas (Musa), a 70:30 joint venture between Usiminas and Japanese group Sumitomo Corp, has been operating normally during the pandemic, the executive told...Read More

Swedish steelmaker SSAB plans to extend temporary layoffs for its Finnish sites until September at least in a response to a downturn in the European steel market, the company said in a release on Wednesday May 20. In April, SSAB agreed temporary layoffs at its Finnish sites averaging three weeks in April-June with its employees and announced steelmaking output cuts. With economic conditions a...Read More

Dilip Oommen, chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AMNS), has been appointed as president of the Indian Steel Association (ISA).The decision was made in an extraordinary board meeting held on Tuesday May 19, the ISA said. Oommen takes the position from TV Narendran, CEO and MD of Tata Steel. He starts the role after more than 37 years of experience in the international stee...Read More

How long it will take the global economy to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic is anyone's guess right now.Could the world's major economic regions be in for an "LUV" recovery similar to the one they saw after the global financial crisis of 2008-09?That was the format of recovery that was expected in 2009 by former Rio Tinto chief executive officer Tom Albanese, who was at the helm of the mining g...Read More

The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to lead to another casualty: the mega mine. The volatility created by crises like Covid-19 is adding a layer of uncertainty to the development of large-scale projects that take a decade or more to progress and are highly capital intensive, according to Tom Albanese, the former chief executive officer of Rio Tinto.This means that mining projects are likely to be deve...Read More

Alcoa Corp has called on the aluminium industry to assess the cost effectiveness of its smelting capacity and make cuts where appropriate - or face a ratcheting up of inventories and a protracted period of low prices. Roy Harvey, the US producer's chief executive officer, said that while curtailments were costly, both financially and in terms of job losses, they were more than necessary at this mo...Read More

The recent volatility inmost markets was really extreme, which means that it was easy to lose focus onthe things that matter the most in case of the gold market. It was relativelyeasy to keep one’s focus as far as the fundamental outlook for gold isconcerned – it’s quite obvious that the economies around the world are in deeptrouble and that the various QEs and money-printing mec...Read More

What it cannot do is cure the virus.  What it could do, however, according to a good many analysts, is act as an effective hedge against its economic consequences. Since the beginning of the year through April, the metal was up 11.73% during probably the worst period in economic history since the 1930s Great Depression. Below we chronicle what top experts have to say about gold in the year of...Read More

Tonight I would like to focus in on silver which remains one of the best bargains in the PM complex right now. When I first became acquainted with the PM complex back in early 2002 I learned quickly that just because gold may have had a good rally sometimes the PM stocks move very little which was confusing to me as I thought they should move in tandem. Then there were other times when the PM stoc...Read More

For many years now, metals traders and enthusiasts have been patiently waiting for the move in Silver that we feel its eventually going to happen.  There is almost a ritual process in the metals market that takes place when a crisis happens.  We’ve written about this in a past article and we’ve highlighted how we believe Silver is one of the absolute best opportunities if/onc...Read More

The battle between Elliott waves and supply/demand forecasting approach continues In case you just landed on Earth via Martian spaceship, 2020 has seen the biggest crash in oil prices ever.This chart captures crude's three-month, 80%-plus nosedive to 3-decade lows. (Price data as of May 1, 2020 and does not reflect the unprecedented April 20 plunge into negative territory at -$40.32. Yes, minus $...Read More