Today is Thursday, January 2, 2020, and this is your daily gold market update. Let's look at the latest price of gold, value of the dollar, gold/silver ratio, Commitment of Traders data, and exchange-traded fund (ETF) prices to get a sense of how the yellow metal is faring today.Gold PriceThe price of one troy ounce of gold in U.S. dollars today is $1,526.25. It's up 0.59% from yesterday and up 18...Read More

Today is Thursday, January 2, 2020, and this is your daily oil stocks roundup. Today we're looking at the valuations of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES), and Imperial Oil (NYSE: IMO).Halliburton (NYSE: HAL)Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) is a $21.55 billion company today with a one-year return of -7.94%. Let's look at its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, its enterprise-value-to-free-cas...Read More

It was in 2005 that I made an audacious claim...The transition to a new energy economy had officially begun, the end of coal was upon us, and little by little, renewable energy was going to go from niche experiment to the second largest form of electricity generation in the United States.You would've thought I had burned a flag, spit on the grave of George Washington, and stole a ham sandwich from...Read More

The domestic price for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe was largely unchanged on Thursday January 2, due to slow trading activity, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index domestic, exw Northern Europe, was largely stable at ?,?439.17 ($492.27) per tonne on Thursday January 2, compared with ?,?439.39 per tonne on December 31.Market activity has...Read More

China's domestic hot-rolled coil prices were flat on Thursday January 2 although Tangshan announced short-term steelmaking restrictions to improve air quality. DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,900-3,920 yuan ($560-563) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Tangshan): 3,640 yuan per tonne, unchangedA large number of steel mills in northern China's steel hub of Tangshan were instructed to implement...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday January 2 that are worth another look.The Chinese city of Ganzhou has launched an exchange for physical trading of rare earths and other minor metals. The outlook for aluminium scrap prices in the United States appears gloomy on the surface for 2020, with market sources noting that the US market remains plagued b...Read More

(New throughout)By Kate DuguidNEW YORK, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The dollar recovered from asix-month low to add 0.44% on Thursday, the first trading day of2020, ending a four-day losing streak and a downbeat Decemberthat had left the index virtually flat at the end of 2019.Trading is likely to remain thin until Tuesday, when mostEuropean countries open after Monday's Epiphany holiday butmarket players w...Read More

The price of steel rebar in both the Northern and Southern European markets was unchanged this week, with trading activity not yet resumed after the year-end holidays, Fastmarkets heard on Thursday January 2.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was...Read More

The price of steel mesh-quality wire rod in the Northern and Southern European markets was unchanged in the week to Thursday January 2 due to the lack of trading activity resulting from year-end holidays.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel wire rod (mesh-quality), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?450-460 ($504-516) per tonne...Read More

Turkish steel mills remained quiet in the deep-sea scrap import market on Thursday January 2, with most suppliers staying out of the market due to the year-end holidays, sources told Fastmarkets.Turkey's deep-sea scrap import market has been silent since December 20, when a Baltic Sea cargo was booked at $303 per tonne cfr.Sentiment, however, has now turned negative becaus...Read More

Iron ore prices advanced on Thursday January 2 despite a downturn in rebar and further production restrictions in China's steel hub of Tangshan.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $94.05 per tonne, up $1.92 per tonne.62% Fe Pilbara Blend fines, cfr Qingdao: $93.14 per tonne, up $1.92 per tonne.62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $94.35 per tonne, up $1.81 per t...Read More

- SRSrocco Gold continues to move higher due to trouble in the Fed Repo and U.S. Treasury Market. In the first hour of business today, the Fed has already injected $57 billion in the Repo Market. While the Fed's Repo Market injections did not spike at during the last few days of 2019, as many analysts forecasted, there's still BIG TROUBLE ahead. There have been many reasons attributed to t...Read More

- Stefan GleasonThe year ahead promises to be an eventful one. It will, of course, be dominated by political headlines leading up to the 2020 election. It could also be a big breakout year for precious metals.In the second part of Money Metals' 2020 Outlook, we'll drill down on the fundamental and technical setup for gold and silver...However, in this first part, we'll set the stage by digging i...Read More

Stewart Thomson 1. I predicted gold would bottom in mid-November and it did. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this fabulous daily gold chart. 2. A lot of amateur gold investors have missed this rally. That's partly because they thought the "smart money" was shorting a lot of gold on the COMEX. 3. What they probably overlooked was the possibility that the s...Read More

2019 was marked by a big rise in gold, silver and palladium rise among the metals. Natural gas was the biggest looser. UK Pound or cable as we call it was nosedived on brexit but also recovered lost ground after thumping mandate to Boris Johnson in UK elections. Japanese Yen and Euro traded mostly in a range and a trend. Indian rupee had weakened against the US dollar in 2019. There is massive d...Read More

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Prices for 62% Fe iron ore experienced a gradual recovery as 2019 came to an end, rising to the $90-per-tonne level, while the high-grade 65% Fe segment even breached $100 per tonne.Traded volumes for the Singapore Exchange's 65% Fe futures contract, which is settled against Fastmarkets' daily index for iron ore 65% Fe Brazil-origin fines, cfr Qingdao, amounted to 1.994 million tonnes in December....Read More

"While new risks could emerge, none of the main sources of recent recessions - oil shocks, inflationary overheating, and financial imbalances - seem too concerning for now. As a result, the Continue...Read More

Prices for steel billet and rebar in Egypt remained stable in the week to Thursday January 2 amid weak demand, sources told Fastmarkets.Egyptian rebar producers were offering rebar at E ?10,000-10,580 ($622-658) per tonne ex-works including 14% VAT, unchanged since mid-December.Read More

Turkish billet prices have weakened over the past week in line with falling rebar and wire rod offers as well as poor demand, sources said on Thursday January 2. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet import, cfr main port Turkey was $410-420 per tonne on Thursday January 2, down from $415-425 per tonne last week. Suppliers in the Commonwealth of Independent States have lowered...Read More