GE is up nearly 15% year-over-yearBoston-based General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is enjoying a 1% lift this morning, last seen just shy of $12 after sharing its annual report. The report stated the conglomerateemployed a more consolidated 205,000 people, 70,000 of which were U.S.-based in 2019. This compares to 2018's count of 283,000. Yesterday GE was one of the many in the broad-market selloff...Read More
The Egyptian Administrative Court will make a ruling on billet and rebar import duties on May 23, after a number of domestic rebar re-rollers appealed to have them removed, market participants told Fastmarkets on Monday February 24.The Egyptian Ministry of Trade & Industry announced definitive import duties on steel billet, rebar and wire rod on October 10 last year. The definitive safeguard duty...Read More
Mastercard's CEO Ajay Banga will resign, effective Jan. 1, 2021The shares of Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) are being dragged even further down the charts this morning following news of CEO Ajay Banga's resignation, at the start of 2021. Banga will be replaced by Chief Product Officer Michael Miebach. Also pressuring shares this morning is an updated current-quarter forecast from the company, predicting...Read More
Home Depot stock is pacing to open higher after earningsDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are trading above fair value this morning, as U.S. stocks prepare to gain back some of Monday's monster losses, which sent the blue-chip index spiraling more than 1,000 points. While coronavirus headlines continue to swirl, traders this morning are also monitoring earnings updates, namely from Dow co...Read More
Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. The US stock market is in "sleigh ride" mode against gold stocks.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this chart. Yesterday was another day of disappointment, fear, and outright terror... for most investors who are locked in the Dow versus GDX sled.3. The disintegration of the US stock market against GDX began...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold market's 18-DMA is under $1,600. 5 days in a row OVER the Bollinger band. Tomorrow it is likely try to get under the band, under $1,650..Read More
Silver has not risen at all. Just trade in the technical in silver. Corrections in gold are healthy. There are lots of US economic data next week. US various February jobs report will be there next week. Correction or profit booking in gold and silver will be there. Corrections will be healthy to ensure that the current rally in gold is a sustainable one. A continued one way rise will imply a bo...Read More
Dexin Steel Indonesia will fire up its first blast furnace on Friday February 21, an industry source told Fastmarkets.Owned by China's Delong Holdings, the mill in Central Sulawesi province's Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, will have a total production capacity of 3.5 million tonnes per...Read More
Flat steel sales from Brazilian distributors increased by 5.3% year on year in January, with the country's steel consumption rising amid price increases, according to national flat steel distributors' association Inda. Shipments amounted to 279,400 tonnes last month, against 265,300 tonnes a year before, Inda said on Tuesday February 18."The market is improving slowly," Inda president Carlos Loure...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 25 that are worth another look.European steel producers, represented by regional steel association Eurofer, hope to achieve a further toughening of the region's existing safeguard measures on steel product imports, market sources told Fastmarkets on February 25.The US Midwest aluminium premium reversed a more than nine-mon...Read More
The three-month zinc price on the London Metal Exchange was lower at the close of trading on Tuesday February 25, with the price edging down by 0.3% in a broadly positive trading afternoon, while lead futures topped the base-metals complex.Zinc's outright price on the LME closed at $2,030 per tonne in the afternoon, failing to close in positive territory despite strong turnover throughout the day....Read More
Rebar producers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region tested higher offers in the market in the week to Monday February 24, following the surge in raw materials prices in the global market, particularly ferrous scrap, market sources said.Offers for Ukraine-origin rebar were reported within the range of $445-450 per tonne fob Black Sea, against $440 per tonne heard a week earlier...Read More
Rebar prices in the Central Federal District around Moscow, Russia, increased this week after Tula Steel announced a reduction in supplies due to a planned stoppage its main pig iron supplier, Tulachermet. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, cpt Moscow, Russia, including 20% VAT, was 33,000 rubles ($506.42) per tonne on Tuesday February 25, u...Read More
Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. The US stock market is in "sleigh ride" mode against gold stocks.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this chart. Yesterday was another day of disappointment, fear, and outright terror... for most investors who are locked in the Dow versus GDX sled.3. The disintegration of the US stock market against GDX began...Read More
Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock JournalTwo economic reports were released which demonstrate that the money printing is not helping the economy. In the fourth quarter of 2019, U.S. household debt pushed over $14 trillion, reaching an all-time record high. This was fueled by a surge in mortgage and credit card debt. Much of the the new mortgage debt consisted of cash out" refis, which helped exacerbat...Read More
Gary TanashianI went out in the afternoon with gold screaming upward on COVID-19 hysteria. I see something like that and I mentally prepare for the "volatility violence" we talked about in last weekend's edition of NFTRH (#591).Maybe some of you old hats like me remember the last bull market, from 2001 to 2008. Yes, of course you do. Massive "attacks" on gold were routine, and they seemed...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold market's 18-DMA is under $1,600. 5 days in a row OVER the Bollinger band. Tomorrow it is likely try to get under the band, under $1,650..Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Somebody seems to have dumped a lot of gold derivatives on the market this afternoon, and Zero Hedge estimates it at $3 billion worth and attributes it to the Bank for International Settlements:https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/gold-suddenly-hammered-multi-billi...There may not yet be any public evidence tying this particular attack to the BIS, but whoever did it...Read More
Silver has not risen at all. Just trade in the technical in silver. Corrections in gold are healthy. There are lots of US economic data next week. US various February jobs report will be there next week. Correction or profit booking in gold and silver will be there. Corrections will be healthy to ensure that the current rally in gold is a sustainable one. A continued one way rise will imply a bo...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 25 that are worth another look.European steel producers, represented by regional steel association Eurofer, hope to achieve a further toughening of the region's existing safeguard measures on steel product imports, market sources told Fastmarkets on February 25.The US Midwest aluminium premium reversed a more than nine-mon...Read More