Oct 29 (Reuters) - Global equity funds saw solid inflows in the week to Oct. 27, boosted by robust third-quarter earnings results from companies worldwide, easing concerns over inflation and supply chain constraints.Investors purchased a net $24.52 billion in global equity funds, their largest net buying since the week to March 17, Lipper data showed.Major U.S. stock indexes rallied to a new peak...Read More
BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) - China published rules on Friday that require its globally systemically important banks to beef up capacity to absorb losses to head off financial instability.Those banks must meet specific total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC) targets from 2025, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) and the Ministry of Finance sa...Read More
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger delves into the Federal Reserve's actions going back decades that affect the price of gold.One of the benefits (or luxuries) of being removed from the commuting rat-race of my earlier life is the ability to devote large swaths of free time to reading – to the acquisition of either new sources of knowledge or new frameworks of opinion, neither of which...Read More
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares closed in the red for the third straight session on Friday, dragged by banks and IT firms, with heavy outflows from foreign investors adding to concerns of overvaluations.The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index fell 1.04% to 17,671.65 and the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex closed down 1.1% to 59,306.93. Both the indexes fell for a second straight week, losing more than 2%.For...Read More
KINSHASA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday revised upward this year's economic growth forecast for the Democratic Republic of Congo to 5.4% due largely to higher-than-expected mining production.The IMF said in statement that it had also reached a staff-level agreement with Congo's government on the first review of a three-year $1.5 billion extended credit facility th...Read More
(Recasts with revised windfall levy rate, adds details on budget allocation)KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Malaysia has agreed to raise the threshold for its palm oil windfall profit levy effective next year and will set the tax rate at 3% nationwide, the finance minister said on Friday.The threshold price for companies in Peninsular Malaysia will be increased to 3,000 ringgit ($725) from 2,500...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon and Apple earnings curbed enthusiasm for global equities on Friday, though the euro held near one-month highs on euro zone rate rise hopes.Amazon.com reported a slump in profit late on Thursday that it expects will continue through the holiday quarter, as higher pay to attract workers and other operational disruptions diminish the company's windfall from online shopping.S...Read More
MEXICO CITY, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Mexico's economy shrank 0.2 percent in the third quarter compared with the previous three-month period, the first quarterly decline since recovery from the pandemic began, preliminary data from national statistics agency INEGI showed on Friday.The seasonally-adjusted contraction in gross domestic product (GDP) compared with the consensus forecast from a Reuters poll...Read More
Oct 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. auto sector's production slump this year is more than a big minus for Detroit - it's a major drag on the entire economy.Gross domestic product growth slowed to the weakest pace in more than a year during the third quarter at just 2% annualized. That was less than a third of the growth rate in the preceding quarter. read moreWhile the Delta variant of COVID-19 played a...Read More
The iron ore seaborne market supply might lose 40 million tonnes in 2022 compared with 2021, the ferrous director at Brazilian mining company Vale, Marcello Spinelli, said on Friday October 29.This reduction follows from a trend that began this year of important iron ore suppliers - including Brazil, India and the Commonwealth of Independent States - focusing more on their domestic marke...Read More
A summary of production figures and financial results from Brazilian steelmaker Usiminas for the third quarter of 2021, as shown in its earnings report published on Friday October 29.In brief?EUR?Usiminas' strategy of buying third-party steel slab to be rolled at the Cubat??o mill was maintained, with a significant increase in purchases year-on-year in the third quarter to 502,000 tonnes, from 240...Read More
A summary of Glencore's 2021 third-quarter production report for the coal sector, released on Friday October 29.In briefThe company's coal production for the year to September 30 was 76.3 million tonnes, some 7.2 million tonnes (9%) lower than the comparable period in 2020, reflecting a full period with its Prodeco operations in Colombia under care and maintenance, the progressive recovery from th...Read More
Treatment charges for both zinc and lead concentrates on a cif China basis were steady over the two weeks to Friday October 29, with little trade in either market.The zinc spot concentrate TC, cif China, was assessed at $75-88 per tonne on Friday, unchanged since one month earlier.Clean cargoes were mostly sold in a narrow range of $80-85 per tonne, with prime brands remaining at the bottom of the...Read More
The iron ore seaborne market supply might lose 40 million tonnes in 2022 compared with 2021, the ferrous director at Brazilian mining company Vale, Marcello Spinelli, said on Friday October 29.This reduction follows from a trend that began this year of important iron ore suppliers - including Brazil, India and the Commonwealth of Independent States - focusing more on their domestic marke...Read More
The price of silicon in China has dropped several times over recent weeks, after setting a then-record price of $9,000-10,000 per tonne on September 24. Downstream demand then fell through October, clouding market confidence, and offer prices went lower and lower.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for silicon, export, 98.5% Si min, fob China, dropped to $5,000-5,500 per tonne on Friday October 2...Read More
Silicon prices in the United States reached a new all-time high on Thursday October 28, making the price for US material - which has almost tripled in seven weeks - now the most expensive in the world. The US price for standard grade silicon (5-5-3) surpassed that in Europe, which had been the most expensive region prior to Fastmarkets' assessment there on Friday October 29.Fastmarkets assessed th...Read More
The three-month copper contract is trading near record highs on the London Metal Exchange, cash prices are rising even faster, and inventories are descending toward zero. Try running a hedge book in those conditions.It's been a very real quandary facing the physical trade and industry, which awoke on Tuesday October 19 to find copper's cash to November spread had flared to a backwardation of more...Read More
The collapse of the iron ore market and market turbulence over Chinese property developer Evergrande Group are adding to the economic woes caused by the Delta variant of Covid-19 for much of this year.It is hard to find bright sparks in the months ahead for the ferrous supply chain, which has been buffeted repeatedly in a short span of few months, starting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's comment...Read More
If any member was going to leave the London Metal Exchange ring trading floor, the exchange was probably hoping it wouldn't be Triland Metals Ltd.The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi, is one of the exchange's longest serving Category 1 members, having joined in 1972 after being founded in the prior year. Having a unit of Japan's largest trading company as a ri...Read More
IXM's head of zinc and lead trading Drago Sekularac left the Geneva-based trading house on Thursday October 28. Sekularac had been at IXM since mid-2011 as head trader of zinc and lead concentrates, having joined from Transamine, where he managed the copper concentrates and cathodes business. ...Read More