LONDON, 6 October 2020 - BullionVault's director of research Adrian Ash is today interviewed in this week's edition of popular German business and finance magazine ?,?uro am Sonntag about trading and storing physical gold.Published in Munich since 1998, "Aren't ETFs that securitize delivery claims for physical gold easier?" asks the magazine."ETFs mediate gold investment through a trust fund struc...Read More

Demand for rebar and billet in Egypt failed to improve in the week to Thursday, October 22, despite the authorities reducing safeguard duties on the products, sources told Fastmarkets.Steel billet and rebar prices in Egypt were unchanged as a result, they added. The duty for imported billet was cut to 13% for the cif market last week, with a $60-per-tonne minimum, compared with ...Read More

The European Commission (EC) has opened an anti-dumping (AD) probe into imports of steel wind towers originating in China, the commission said on Wednesday October 21.The investigation started after the European Wind Tower Association lodged a complaint on behalf of European producers on March 17 - the association represents more than 25% of the total European production of steel wind towers.The p...Read More

Now is not the time for Freeport-McMoRan to be thinking about mergers and acquisitions, the mining company's chief executive officer says.According to Richard Adkerson, the company - which is just over half-way through a mega-project to transform its giant Grasberg copper-gold mine in Indonesia from an open-pit to an underground operation - is on the verge of creating huge shareholder value."I jus...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.US ERW OCTG edges higher, seamless could followRising substrate costs helped support US ERW OCTG prices this month, especially at the upper end of the range of offers. Seamless OCTG and linepipe prices, meanwhile, held firm compared with September prices. The fundamentals remain weak, with rig counts going up...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Iron ore remains the most bullish commodity of the year, with prices fuelled by Chinese demand and supply disruptions in Brazil, along with bullish sentiment. But prices are expected to come down because Brazilian exports have begun to recover, and have reached their highest level since the Brumadinho dam disaster in 2019. W...Read More

Polyus PJSC, Russia's largest gold producer, said its untapped Sukhoi Log deposit in Siberia holds the world's biggest reserves.Read full newsRead More

Oct 25, 2020 Guest(s): Jeffrey Christian Managing Partner, CPM Group While electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining popularity, the rate at which EVs will gain market share will not be as fast as commonly expected, meaning that the auto industry will still need the platinum group metals (PGMs) for catalytic converters in the foreseeable future, said Jeff Christian, managing partner of CPM Group. "The...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 23 that are worth another look....Read More

Meanwhile in China, Communist Party officials begin a four-day policy plenum today, to lay out a five-year plan to guide the economy to 2025.Gold has dropped below US$1,900 an ounce on the spot market, to about $1,895/oz at the time of writing.Base metals closed lower in London on Friday as the virtual LME Week wound up, where one panel had heard metals demand could stagnate in 2021 due to a secon...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 23 that are worth another look....Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 23 that are worth another look....Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 23 that are worth another look....Read More

Has COVID-19 impacted seasonal patterns in oil & gas stocks? Some guests on INK Ultra Money are betting it has. Meanwhile, 2020 has been a great year for bitcoin and the best may be yet to come. Read the latest edition here.Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 23 that are worth another look....Read More

As we emerge from the global economic lockdown, is a real recovery and return to the kind of growth we've experienced in the past decade likely, or are we headed ?EURRead More

Chris Vermeulen has been involved in the markets since 1997 and is the founder of Technical Traders Ltd. He is an internationally recognized technical analyst, trader, and is the author of the book: 7 Steps to Win With Logic.Lior Gantz has been called a thrill-seeking entrepreneur by his team, and as such, he built and runs numerous successful businesses, and has traveled to over 30 countries in t...Read More

Max and Stacy chat with Michael Krieger, the poet laureate of the debt apocalypse, about bitcoin, localism and an era beyond voting every four years for more status quo. Michael also describes the circumstances behind the great tomato disaster of 2020.Michael Krieger is the creator and editor of Liberty Blitzkrieg, a popular blog that has recently gone on hiatus. Michael attended college at Duke U...Read More

TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:-Interventionists in the economy.-Tech giants are cutting their own throats.-The constitution is now dead words on a page.-Financial imbalances, 2020 boiling point.-Gold miners and present-day opportunities.Doug Casey is an American-born libertarian economist and advocate of the free market. He is a bestselling financial author, international investor, entrepreneur, and th...Read More

"It's not just here, but it's around the world. This is unprecedented in world history. They locked down Paris again. . . . Ireland is on full lockdown again. . . . I estimate 38% are opposed to this lockdown, and that is the core vote. The other ones do as they are told. They are not fighters. You have about 38% that are the fighters, and they are going to vote very strongly. This is why I believ...Read More