Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday February 8 that are worth another look.European steel association Eurofer is concerned that the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will result in a substantial rise in the costs of steel production, it said on Friday February 5.China's...Read More

In our globalized economy, currencypairs have a negative correlation with gold, so how does the current EUR/USDsituation impact the yellow metal?It pays to pay attention to what ishappening in Europe. As is well known, there are many currency pairs in theworld, but the most traded one is the EUR/USD. How does that affect you as agold investor? The equation goes something like this: if the economy...Read More

Spot hot-rolled coil prices in the United States remained stable to begin the week. Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $59.24 per hundredweight ($1,184.80 per short ton) on Monday February 8, up by a penny from $59.23 per cwt on Friday February 5 and an increase of 4.7% from $56.56 per cwt one week earlier. Inputs were received across all three sub-i...Read More

Near the end of 2020, my research team identified trends, pullbacks, and overall upward/downward trends in US major markets as well as those for Gold and Silver.  It is time we revisited these early 2021 predictions in relation to what is happening in the markets currently. You can revisit our original publication entitled What To Expect in 2021 Part II – Gold, Silver, and SPY.At the ti...Read More

Domestic prices for steel hot-rolled coil across Europe stabilized at a high level in the week ended Friday February 5, supported by good order books at domestic producers and solid demand.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?710.00 ($855.36) per tonne on Friday, down by ?,?2.50 per tonne week on week, but up by ?,?43.75 per tonne month...Read More

The CIS export market for steel slab remained quiet in the week to Monday February 8 with no major bookings heard.No offers were heard in the market because mills preferred to invite bids from customers, but such bids were rare because the market lacked clarity."There are no offers because everybody is waiting for the Chinese New Year holiday to end," one trader said, adding that he expected price...Read More

If you're a close observer of the metals market, you know that the price of silver has taken a tumble during the past several days.Elliott wave analysis was a big help in identifying the price turn, which occurred on Jan. 6.Indeed, here's a chart and commentary from the Jan. 6 issue of our Monday-Wednesday-Friday U.S. Short Term Update, an Elliott Wave International publication which provides near...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday February 8 that are worth another look.European steel association Eurofer is concerned that the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will result in a substantial rise in the costs of steel production, it said on Friday February 5.China's...Read More

Peter Krauth, the editor of Gold Resource Investor, traces previous gold bull markets and lays out what he believes is in store for the current one.If we want to make intelligent forecasts and decisions about our future, we need to understand not only where we are today, but also how we got here. So, let's look at previous gold bull markets for some insight on what we might expect from this one.Go...Read More

A new sheriff is in in town, and he’s making some rearrangements. Will the new order of things support the price of gold?What a blitzkrieg! Joe Biden certainly wastes no time in signing executive orders. Since inauguration, he introduced several policies, including mandating masks on federal property, in airports and on certain public transportation, and the end of a travel bank on some coun...Read More

Last year felt like apivot point in U.S. history. The pandemic and election left the nationideologically divided.There seem to be onlythree resolutions going forward.America will face anincreasingly authoritarian federal government ruling over a largely apatheticpopulace, the nation will splinter, or leadership will emerge which is somehowcapable of bridging the ideological divide between the Amer...Read More

Gold is suffering a hang-over afterit’s early January highs, while the EUR/USD pair is buckling - so when golddeclines, where will its bottom be?After injecting itself with JanetYellen’s stimulus sentiment, gold came down from its highs on Friday (Jan. 22).And like the GDX ETF, it’s important toput gold’s recent run into context. For starters, gold is stilltrading below its...Read More

Inflation will be one of the greatest upside risks for gold this year. Will it materialize and make gold shine?The report about gold in 2021 would be incomplete without the outlook for inflation . We have already written about it recently, but this topic is worth further examination. After all, higher inflation is believed to be one of the biggest tail risks in the coming months or years, and one...Read More

Gold seems to be sleeping off itslatest mini-rally and lacks the momentum to reach new highs. What happens fromhere? Has the USD bottomed? And what does it mean when we factor in the EUR/USDpair and poor economic indicators from Europe into the equation?Not much happened yesterday (Jan. 21),but what happened was relatively informative. And by “relatively” I meanliterally just that. Gol...Read More

My team prepares Custom Valuations Index charts to understand how capital is being deployed in the global markets alongside US Dollar and Treasury Yields.  The purpose of the Custom Index charts in this article is to provide better insight into and understanding of underlying capital movements in various market conditions.  Recently, we discovered the Custom Index chart shares a kee...Read More

Peter Krauth, the editor of Silver Stock Investor, looks at silver's bull markets since the 1970s and discusses what he thinks lies ahead. There's no consensus on whether silver is in its second or third secular bull market since the 1970s. That's because people define bull markets in different ways. But as I'll show you, it's not that important.What we do know is that silver enjoyed a huge bull m...Read More

Gold moved higher as the USD Indexmoved lower in today’s pre-market trading. Before providing you with mythoughts on why that happened and what the implications are, let’s see exactlywhat transpired. Figure1 - USD IndexIn yesterday’s (Jan. 19) analysis , I commented on the above USD Index chart in the following way:TheUSD Index is after a major breakout above the declining resist...Read More

Anyone who owns precious metals, mining shares or metals' ETFsknows the drill.First, gold and silver begin toestablish an uptrend on the charts. Analysts (like us) start writing about howprices are getting ready to make an upside run.Then "out of nowhere" thousands of highly marginedfutures contracts hit the market on the short side, "re-painting" thecharts, sending terror into...Read More

The London Metal Exchange copper price closed above the $8,000 per tonne mark for the first time in nearly two weeks on Monday February 8, with the majority of the other base metals prices also increasing on account of a falling dollar index. Copper's price closed at $8,037 per tonne on Monday, a 1.6% rise from its price on Friday at 5pm of $7,912.50 per tonne and its first time closing above $8,0...Read More

Iron ore prices went up on Monday February 8, with growing steel mill interest in mid-grade fines at ports, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $160.50 per tonne, up $3.49 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $160.80 per tonne, up $3.27 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $146.45 per tonne, up $2.16 per tonn...Read More