Here at Energy and Capital, I belong to the church of what makes you money. Oftentimes that is cutting-edge technology, but sometimes the setup in cyclicals is too good to pass up.Right now we are getting just such a setup in midtier oil companies.Check out this chart for the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (XOP):As you can see, XOP has doubled over the last year but is still well...Read More

Until the second quarter of 2022...That's how long Gartner analysts predict the current semiconductor shortage will last. Taiwanese PC and laptop maker Acer's Co-Chief Operating Officer Tiffany Huang predicted the same in an interview with Guardian Australia. Meanwhile, CNBC reports, "Glenn O'Donnell, a vice president research director at advisory firm Forrester, believes the shortage could last...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil were mostly stable across Europe on Tuesday June 8, on support from a continuing shortage of material, sources told Fastmarkets.The availability of domestic HRC has remained tight but lead times are no longer being extended, sources told Fastmarkets.Buyers have also been cautious about making new deals in fear of being left with stocks of high-priced coil if pri...Read More

The export prices of hot-rolled coil from the Commonwealth of Independent States fell during the week to Monday June 7 on new sales and uncertainty in the global market due to a lack of clarity on the imposition of an export tax on steel in China, sources said.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel hot-rolled coil, export, fob Black Sea, CIS was $995-1,020 per tonne on June 7, down from $1...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.United States sheet prices hit record highs again in May, with upward momentum carrying into June. Actual US HRC prices averaged $1,712 per tonne in May, largely in line with our forecast of $1,698 per tonne. Strong underlying supply-and-demand conditions both in the US and globally are supporting prices as well as long lead...Read More

Buyers of steel rebar and billet in the United Arab Emirates preferred to wait before placing new orders because of uncertainty about prices during the week ended Tuesday June 8, sources have told Fastmarkets.Local rebar producers were expected to announce new prices next week.Local retail prices for rebar were currently lower than those offered by local producers. In any case, most buyers have hi...Read More

The current upward momentum in pricing in the steel market should continue in the third quarter with support from short supply and solid demand, buoying an already optimistic market, the International Rebar Producers & Exporters Association (Irepas) said on June 4.EuropeRebar prices reached new highs during the second quarter of 2021 on support from long lead times, strong demand and limited impor...Read More

Export offers for Chinese rebar to South Korea have strengthened in the past week on expectations of good demand from the East Asian country.Offers for Chinese rebar produced according to South Korean standards were made at $900 per tonne cfr South Korea on a theoretical weight basis during the week, narrowing upward by $20 per tonne from $880-900 per tonne cfr in the preceding week.Participants i...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories from Tuesday June 8 that are worth another look.A rise in Covid-19 cases in China's Guangdong province in recent weeks has led to tighter controls and rigorous testing at the huge Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT), causing extended delays...Read More

Anthony Fauci is on record in 2012 as saying that the value of knowledge gained from creating a pandemic virus that escapes from a lab would be worth the risk. Now that it seems highly probable that a lab escape did happen, the virologists who met with Fauci in the early moments of the crisis to discuss - well, we don't know what - are now supporting a wall of "It Was of Natural Origin!" articles...Read More

WARNING: Profanity!Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or c...Read More

For some time we've been talking about the inevitable arrival of a particular investor to the gold market. Well, they're here. Who are they? Watch today's update with Mike Maloney and Jeff Clark to find out.Download Mike's best-selling book for free here: https://pages.goldsilver.com/freebook Thanks for sharing and clicking that 'Like' button. For those wondering why our videos don't appear in the...Read More

Dave Kranzler spent many years working in various Wall Street jobs. After business school, he primarily traded junk bonds for a large bank. Dave graduated from Oberlin College with majors in Economics and English and he also has an MBA from the University of Chicago, with a concentration in accounting and finance. Currently, he co-manages a precious metals and mining stock investment fund in Denve...Read More

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 possible and at the same time, we need to com...Read More

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The last two gold bull cycles, culminating in peaks in 1980 and 2011, were both followed by a price correction and then a multi-year consolidating pattern.However, the highs of last year do not indicate a multi-year peak, as gold is still in a long-term bull trend, said Chris Vermeulen, chief market strategist of https://TheTechcnicalTraders.com."We're looking at roughly $2,700, give or take, up t...Read More

The Fed's efforts to create inflation have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. They've created $4 trillion and their balance sheet is $8 trillion. We had tremendous amounts of helicopter money raising stock prices and home prices. Enhanced unemployment, mortgage and rent forbearance, student loan deferment are all coming to an end. That's the fiscal cliff. The monetary cliff is already ha...Read More

1. Bitcoin is testing the 200-day moving average again. The popular crypto currency is testing its important 200-day moving average again. A weekly close below this key level is very negative and will likely signal a further decline. The may 19, 2021 low at 30,205 is also a critical support level in the near term.2. The major stock indexes are mixed again. The DJIA (DIA) and the S&P 500 Index (SPY...Read More

Tavi Costa says high inflation is coming. Multiple inflationary forces are creating an extremely bullish environment for gold and silver.0:00 Intro?EUR<0:56 Inflationary forces6:14 High inflation10:04 Measuring inflation14:16 How inflation impacts you18:13 Gold/silver updateTavi Costa is a partner and portfolio manager at Crescat Capital and has been with the firm since 2013. He built Crescat's ma...Read More

Housing bust is on the way. John's builder had an amazing story to tell. 6-12 months ago he was doing record business. Half of his customers have put their project on hold. He's working just as hard re-pricing projects and passing on the bad news to his buyers. Housing prices have blown through the affordability level and it's quite possibly game over. The price of materials has gone parabolic.Use...Read More