Risk has not been extinguished, it is expanding geometrically beneath the false stability of a monstrously manipulated market. One of the most under-appreciated investment insights isContinue...Read More
The Pentagon allegedly has in its possession an incredible clear photo of a "Black Triangle" UFO spectacularly rising out of the ocean.Continue...Read More
National Guardsmen just completed a two-week training exercise which saw them respond to a simulated cyberattack that took out critical utilities across the Continue...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne, Founder of The Daily Gold joins me today to share his outlook for gold, silver, and uranium stocks. We tie some of the recent moves in precious metals to the bounce in the US Dollar.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...Read More
According to new IMF data out, The Bank of Thailand, Thailand's central bank, followed up April's record purchase of 43.5 tons with an even larger 46.7 ton purchase of gold in May. Were paper gold prices smashed to help fill this order and other large orders?Commit to tipping us monthly for our hard work creating high level, thought provoking content that includes interviews with top experts, anal...Read More
Turkish steel mills have broken their silence in the deep-sea scrap import markets with a fresh US cargo sold at a slightly lower price, market sources said on Thursday June 24.A steel mill in the Izmir region booked a United States-origin cargo, comprising 10,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $499 per tonne, 16,000 tonnes of shredded and 2,000 tonnes of bonus at $519 per tonne cfr....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
Hot-briquetted iron and ferrous scrap will become increasingly important as key steelmaking raw materials in Japan, according to SMBC Nikko Securities' senior analyst Atsushi Yamaguchi.Speaking at the Asia panel session at Steel Success Strategies 2021 on Wednesday June 23, Yamaguchi said the move will happen because of increasing concerns over carbon emissions in Japan, where major steel producer...Read More
Emerita Resources' projects and upside potential are discussed in a Research Capital Corp. report. In a June 15 research note, analyst Adam Schatzker reported that Research Capital Corp. initiated coverage on Emerita Resources Corp. (EMO:TSX.V; EMOTF:OTCMKTS; LLJ:FSE) with a Speculative Buy rating and a CA$2.30 per share target price. The stock is currently trading at about CA$1.45 per share. Eme...Read More
Aurania Resources' recent drilling efforts, results and plans are addressed in a Noble Capital Markets report. In a June 16 research note, Noble Capital Markets analyst Mark Reichman provided an update on Aurania Resources Ltd.'s (ARU:TSX.V; AUIAF:OTCQB) drilling at its Lost Cities-Cutucu project. Reichman discussed the drilling of three targets at the Ecuador property. Regarding the Tsenken N1 c...Read More
Turkish steel billet prices have gone down over the past week due to falling long steel values and limited demand, market sources said on Thursday June 24.Turkish rebar and wire rod export prices have also been falling this week, which helped to drive the fall in values.The steelmakers in Turkey lowered their billet offers for domestic buyers to $675-685 per tonne ex-works from last week's $685-70...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices increased on Thursday June 24 in response to futures gains on Wednesday, stimulating demand for restocking, sources said.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,820-4,850 yuan ($745-749) per tonne, up by 10-20 yuan per tonneOctober rebar futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchanged increased on Wednesday night to trade as a high of 5,022 yuan per tonne, up by 88 yuan per ton...Read More
Prices in the European titanium alloy and scrap market could fall in the near term amid signs of weaker scrap costs and little renewed consumer demand for third quarter deliveries, according to trade sources.While most industry ferro-titanium suppliers reported fairly stable prices this week, they also said trading activity has been quiet, much like the rest of the current quarter. Steelmakers tol...Read More
The move away fromthe Federal Reserve Note as the global reserve currency of choice has continuedin recent years, with fresh developments increasing the greenback’s stiffcompetition. This has led tomassive central bank buying of gold, and that trend appears set to continue in2021. According to a recent report from the World Gold Council, 21% of globalcentral banks plan to purchase gold this...Read More
The recent Fed’s hawkish turn is fundamentally negative for gold prices but there is still some hope.The hawkish counter-revolution within the Fed continues. On Friday, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said that the recent FOMC shift towards a faster tightening of monetary policy was a natural response to faster economic growth and higher inflation than anticipated:We were expecting a g...Read More
China's domestic stainless steel prices rose to their highest in four-and-a-half years over the past week after producers made upward adjustments to their list prices.DomesticStainless steel cold-rolled coil 2mm grade 304 domestic (Wuxi): 16,900-17,500 ($2,609-2,701) per tonne, up by 300 yuan per tonne Prices were last at these levels in December 2016, according to Fastmarkets' data.High productio...Read More
The Brazilian capital goods association, Abimaq, will meet with China-based Baosteel and local trading house Comexport to pave the way for its members to import more steel amid rising prices and tight supply in the domestic market, the association said on Wednesday June 23."We still don't know details about tonnage or types of products that will be needed," Abimaq's executive president, Jos?(C) Ve...Read More
The Hybrit initiative - SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall - has produced the world's first hydrogen-reduced sponge iron at a pilot scale, it said on June 24.The pilot plant in Lule??, Sweden has completed the test production of sponge iron and demonstrated that it is possible to use fossil-free hydrogen gas to reduce iron ore instead of using coal and coke to remove the oxygen. The sponge iron production...Read More
Much greater investment is needed to expand supply chains to secure critical minerals and expand manufacturing in key materials needed for the energy transition, according to the Acting Undersecretary for Science and Energy at the United States Department of Energy.These investments must ensure sustainable production, refining, and recycling capacity domestically, while ensuring strong environment...Read More
Hot-briquetted iron and ferrous scrap will become increasingly important as key steelmaking raw materials in Japan, according to SMBC Nikko Securities' senior analyst Atsushi Yamaguchi.Speaking at the Asia panel session at Steel Success Strategies 2021 on Wednesday June 23, Yamaguchi said the move will happen because of increasing concerns over carbon emissions in Japan, where major steel producer...Read More