Both targets being reported demonstrate upside potential of the asset. Roxgold Inc. (ROXG:TSX) reported in a news release the latest drill results from its S?gu?la gold project in C?te d'Ivoire, which were of high grade."We are very encouraged by the latest S?gu?la assay results, which illustrate the upside potential of this project," President and CEO John Dorward said in the release. "The Ancie...Read More

The gold miners’ stocksare wavering, frustrating traders.  Forthe better part of a half-year, this sector has neither broken out nor brokendown.  Instead it has mostly groundsideways since the last upleg’s peak. Gold stocks being mired in a consolidation so long, even arelatively-high one, is steadily eroding bullish sentiment.  That ups the odds it will roll over i...Read More

YESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMGold was sold lower by a few dollars by 9 a.m. CST in Far East trading on their Friday morning -- and that proved to be the low tick of the day. From that juncture it headed quietly higher until minutes before 2 p.m. China Standard Time on their Friday afternoon. It edged lower until the 10:30 a.m. morning gold fix in London -- and then began...Read More

- Gary Tanashian, NFTRHThe Nasdaq bubble popped in 2000 after motoring upward on increasing volume in two separate phases. Volume rammed upward and RSI diverged. Like shootin' fish in a barrel it was, except that at the time I was too inexperienced to see it. It was a steep slope and blow out.The 2006 bubble in copper made a consolidation and a steep slope and blow out of its own with a little...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinMartin Luther King holiday Monday -- confusing rules on trading.Three big events this week: US/China Trade Deal, USMCA approved, Senate Impeachment.Gold's weekly chart close shows the best level we have had. 18-week moving average now just under $1,500. Gold technical update..Read More

Chinese steel production increased in 2019 amid stronger demand from the construction sector, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics on Friday January 17.2019 outputCrude steel: 996.34 million tonnes, up 8.3%Finished steel: 1.2 billion tonnes, up 9.8% ...Read More

Market participants in China say they are not worried by the expected increase in steel imports from the United States, even after the two major economic powers signed the phase one economic and trade agreement on Wednesday January 15. While the agreement does not set out the increase in quantity of US-origin steel exports China will accept, Chinese market participants do not expected the increase...Read More

Central China-based Henan Luoyang Iron & Steel is to sell its 1.04 million tonnes per year of crude steel capacity to a mill in southern China's Guangdong province, according a notice released by the Henan Industry & Information Technology Department on Tuesday January 14.Seller: Luoyang Iron & SteelLocation: Luoyang city, Henan...Read More

- Gary Tanashian, NFTRHThe Nasdaq bubble popped in 2000 after motoring upward on increasing volume in two separate phases. Volume rammed upward and RSI diverged. Like shootin' fish in a barrel it was, except that at the time I was too inexperienced to see it. It was a steep slope and blow out.The 2006 bubble in copper made a consolidation and a steep slope and blow out of its own with a little...Read More

David HaggithSince hindsight is 2020, I thought it might be useful now that we are far past the time in 2018 when I called the fall of the US housing market to assess where its journey went during the year and a half that has gone by before I venture a housing market prediction for 2020.There is no sense going further if I got that wrong.To lead off, new housing sales have finally recovered fr...Read More

The gold miners' stocks are wavering, frustrating traders. For the better part of a half-year, this sector has neither broken out nor broken down. Instead it has mostly ground sideways since the last upleg's peak. Gold stocks being mired in a consolidation so long, even a relatively-high one, is steadily eroding bullish sentiment. That ups the odds it will roll over into a correction,...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinMartin Luther King holiday Monday -- confusing rules on trading.Three big events this week: US/China Trade Deal, USMCA approved, Senate Impeachment.Gold's weekly chart close shows the best level we have had. 18-week moving average now just under $1,500. Gold technical update..Read More

Disappearing StuffSaved LivesUnlocking the DoorA Better World, by the NumbersMiami and New YorkWe haven't had a lot of good news lately. Or, more precisely, we haven't seen a lot of good news lately, though it does exist. We don't see it because both regular media and social media usually focus on the bad.That's not entirely wrong. The survival imperative makes humans watch for threats, and so...Read More

The London Metal Exchange will on February 1 introduce a reporting process that will increase transparency into levels of off-warrant stocks. The exchange announced the plans in November 2019 and aims to attract more metal back in LME sheds. It is controversial, but its passage into the LME rulebook on February 1 follows a consultation last year. Some market participants are now saying the LME sho...Read More

A string of long-term deals for cobalt hydroxide show that bullish forecasts for cobalt consumption from the electric vehicle (EV) sector are coming into play. Glencore will supply battery manufacturer SK Innovation with up to 30,000 tonnes of cobalt contained in hydroxide over six years, it said last week - a deal worth about $1 billion in today's market. And other deals also point...Read More

If you are a producer or consumer, or are active in the physical markets, then you had better be aware of a new set of regulations that will make it all the more important for you to choose the right logistics partner from next year.The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has ruled that from January 1, 2020, the marine sector will have to reduce sulfur emissions by more than 80% by switching...Read More

Copper has attempted to rebound since early September following a marked sell-off in the summer months where macro and fundamental forces have been prevalent.On the macro front, copper has benefited from a slight easing in US-China trade tensions and more monetary policy easing across the globe - including China, where copper consumption is the most exposed - that has shored up investor sentiment....Read More

The increasing consumption of scrap and a potential shift toward the electric-arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking route from the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) route in China are medium- to long-term threats to demand for steelmaking raw materials, while in the near team coking coal import volumes will continue to be affected by iron ore procurement strategies.This was the basis of Fastmarkets research team...Read More

The Brazilian government has decided to suspend the imposition of anti-dumping duties on imports of hot-rolled coil from Russia and China, according to a decision published in the country's official gazette on Friday January 17.The government imposed anti-dumping duties for five years on Russian and Chinese HRC in January 2018 but immediately suspended the measure for one year due to "public inter...Read More

Greenlane Renewables Inc. is a pioneer in the rapidly emerging renewable natural gas (RNG) market.Read full newsRead More