The Turkish steel producers have resumed their deep-sea scrap purchases after a short break and have booked two cargoes at slightly higher prices, market sources said on Thursday March 4.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Canadian cargo, comprising 18,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (95:5), 18,000 tonnes of shredded and 7,000-8,000 tonnes of plate and structural (P&S), at an average price of $471 p...Read More

Trafigura has confirmed it will hold a 19% stake in the Goro nickel mining and processing complex in the South Province of the French territory of New Caledoniia, 1,200km east of Australia.The announcement by the Swiss trading and mining company comes alongside reports that electric vehicle car maker Tesla will source material from the mine for use in its batteries.Trafigura is part of the Prony R...Read More

Metals News, interviews James Calaway, Executive Chairman Ioneer Ltd (ASX: INR), a world leader in the lithium space. Ioneer is an emerging US lithium-boron producer and the 100% owner of the Rhyolite Ridge, Lithium-Boron Project, located in Nevada, USA, the only known lithium-boron deposit in North America and one of only two known such deposits in the world. On January 21st, 2021 Ioneer announce...Read More

A summary of results for the lithium division of Chilean producer Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) for the fourth quarter of 2020, as shown in its quarterly update published on Wednesday March 3.In brief The company reported a historical record volume of lithium sales in the last quarter of 2020, with 25,000 tonnes of lithium sold during September-December, although profits were dented by steady av...Read More

I don't think her intentions are dishonorable.She simply wants to live in a world where there is less of a divide between the poor and the absurdly rich.She wants to live in a world where every American has access to health care, quality education, and a safe place to live. Certainly, these are not bad things to want, nor are they impossible to achieve.But Sen. Elizabeth Warren's recently revived...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday March 4 that are worth another look....Read More

Eight industry associations representing various steel end-consumers in Europe have sent a letter to the European Commission (EC) asking for termination of the region's safeguard measures imposed on steel imports.The European Commission started an investigation on February 26 into the possible extension of existing safeguard measures, which are applied to imports of 26 steel product categories.The...Read More

Turkish domestic long steel prices increased over the past week because of rising imported scrap costs, but demand has not supported the rises, market participants told to Fastmarkets on Thursday March 4.Late on February 26, a steel mill in the Marmara region booked Baltic Sea-origin shipment of HMS 1&2 (80:20) scrap at $456 per tonne cfr, which pushed up the daily scrap on March 1, with Fastmarke...Read More

Turkish rebar and wire rod export prices have gone up further this week on increasing scrap costs, market sources said on Thursday March 4.The latest deep-sea scrap transaction was recorded late on February 26, when a steel mill in the Marmara region paid $456 per tonne cfr for Baltic Sea-origin HMS 1&2 (80:20). This raised the daily scrap index for US-origin material - which tends to reflect Balt...Read More

The Turkish steel producers have resumed their deep-sea scrap purchases after a short break and have booked two cargoes at slightly higher prices, market sources said on Thursday March 4.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Canadian cargo, comprising 18,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (95:5), 18,000 tonnes of shredded and 7,000-8,000 tonnes of plate and structural (P&S), at an average price of $471 p...Read More

Join Fastmarkets and steel industry experts on Wednesday March 10 for a special webinar on the revival of the Chinese steel scrap import market - 'Understanding China's Steel Scrap Market Dynamics.'Fastmarkets has been at the forefront of reporting deals, obstacles and key regulatory changes in the Chinese steel scrap import market over the past year and on February 8 2020, started a daily pr...Read More

Despite the US Dollar gold price still falling, there are now many signs or contrarian indicators over the last few weeks that the gold price is close to a bottom. One of the major contrarian indicators is the sheer amount of Wall Street investment banks downgrading their gold price targets in just the last few weeks. Gold price sheds nearly $100 this week as Wall Street calls for more losses http...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne, Founder of The Daily Gold joins me to share his outlook on gold. We look at both the charts and fundamental aspects of what's driving gold.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold Premium, a publication which emphasizes market timing and stock selection for the sophisti...Read More

Blog: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/the-d...Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as...Read More

SBTV spoke with Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, about the transition of power from West to East. Gerald sees the U.S. influence waning from the trillions of dollars wasted in wars while China focuses on commerce and infrastructure building.00:00?EUR< Introduction01:38?EUR< Of dictators and freedom lost05:49?EUR< Artificial economic bounce from trillions of stimulus08:31?E...Read More

Mining activities at Minas Gerais are unlikely to be affected despite a newly-imposed Covid-19 lockdown on Thursday March 4, market sources said.The local authorities in Minas Gerais have issued an initial 15-day lockdown to tackle the spread of the Covid-19 virus, with further evaluation needed to determine whether an extension is needed, local news outlets saidMining activities will still c...Read More

IN THIS INTERVIEW: - BASEL III ACCORD: NSFR "Net Stable Funds Requirement" to go into effect in US in June 2021, and EU Jan 2022- Bash & Stash on the COMEX: Largest gold & silver hoards in history being amassed at subsidized prices.- Follow the money: Do as they do - Not as they say.- US Mint American Eagle design changeover may disrupt production for 2 months. Find out when, according to an insid...Read More

In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the 'growing concern that market-based inflation expectations have become unreliable as indicators', i.e. the central banks have destroyed the price signal foundational to free and fair markets. In this environment, we see Goodhart's Law at work: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Billionaire hedge fund investor,...Read More

In just the last few weeks, the Fed's purchases of mortgage backed securities (MBS) exploded from an already high $30 billion per month to increase by over $100 billion in only a week!Rules changes, goal post moving, bailouts, toxic asset purchases by the Fed are creating insane distortions in US home prices with the goal being to keep US home prices going up at any and all cost.US banks are even...Read More

?>>?Gregory Mannarino started his career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. After realizing that working on Wall Street was not like the movies, he moved on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Li...Read More