Turkish steel pipe export prices have advanced in the past month due to increasing raw material costs and stronger demand in the domestic market, sources said on Wednesday November 13.Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for steel structural pipe export S235JR grade EN10219 2mm wall thickness, fob main port Turkey, was $515-530 per tonne on November 13, widening up from $515-520 per tonne on Octo...Read More

The S&P eked out a slim gainThe Dow managed a strong win and another record high in a busy session on Wall Street. The blue-chip index was spurred by Walt Disney (DIS), which saw its shares rally after announcing strong numbers for its Disney+ streaming service. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq lagged behind, however, as traders considered congressional testimony from Fed Chair Jerome Powell -- who suggeste...Read More

- Craig Hemke, TF MetalsWith the expected price pullback underway, what can we expect for the remainder of the month and into year-end? Will the price action continue to resemble 2010, or will it play out more like 2016 instead?As we've discussed each of the past two weeks, the current selloff/pullback in COMEX gold and silver is as unsurprising as it was unavoidable. The COMEX market-making Ban...Read More

Forecasts, Commentary & Analysis on the Economy and Precious MetalsCelebrating our 46th year in the gold businessNovember 2019"I'm no insect. Gold is a great way to make a lot of money." - Thomas Kaplan, Electrum GroupMichael J. Kosares, USA Gold2020 visionFive charts to contemplate as we prepare for the new year1. Gold's annual returns 2000 to presentIn the February edition of this newsletter,...Read More

- Gary TanashianGlobal central banks have been pumping the liquidity spigots 24/7 and the US Fed is starting to go that way as well. This during a time of supposed economic splendor and fruitfulness (it is these contradictions that are the windows into a ginned up, leveraged economy dependent on monetary policy) while the S&P 500 breaks through the bull turnstile to blue sky.A real economy and...Read More

- Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. It doesn't take much downside price action to make gold investors nervous, or much upside price action to make greed appear.2. It's probably true that no fever is like gold fever!3. To reduce these swings in emotion, my suggestion is for investors to do most of their buying and selling at major support and resistance zones....Read More

- Gary Christenson, The Deviant InvestorPresident Roosevelt made owning gold for American citizens, with minor exceptions, illegal in 1933. See Executive Order # 6102. Begin the DOW to gold ratio analysis in 1933.Many people have discussed the Dow to gold ratio. It fell from over 40 in the year 2000 when the DOW (11,750) was expensive, and gold sold for less than $300. In those days paper asse...Read More

SDC and GOOS options volume has ramped up todayStocks are flat today, as Wall Street unpacks a congressional testimony from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, as well as public impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump. Among three stocks making notable moves today are teledentistry name SmileDirectClub Inc (NASDAQ:SDC), clothing concern Canada Goose Inc (NYSE:GOOS), and semiconductor stock Nortec...Read More

Subscribers who used Hidden Pivot targets from Rick's Picks to trade against gold's steep fall have done well bottom-fishing this week. Here's how they did it -- and judge for yourself whether you could have done these trades yourself. www.RickAckerman.comRead More

By: Ira EpsteinGold should test the 18- week moving average.. but from what level? Lower highs with lower lows, gold's 18-day moving average converging with 100-DMA around $1484/89Read More

Options are exchanging hands well above the average intraday pace Cloud concern Datadog Inc (NASDAQ:DDOG) is trading at all-time highs following its first ever turn in the earnings confessional since going public in late September. The firm posted a third-quarter loss of 4 cents per share, which was smaller than analysts' expectations, and revenue that also beat expectations. The software company...Read More

Auto stocks have outperformed but put open interest is high on the groupEvery week, Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White sends out a table that breaks down a number of data points for every sector we cover, looking for places where sentiment doesn't line up with how names in the space have been performing -- in other words, another way contrarian traders can find potential opportuni...Read More

Procter & Gamble is keeping the Dow above waterStocks are sticking close to the flatline at midday, as Wall Street keeps a close eye on Capitol Hill. In addition to congressional testimony from Fed Chair Jerome Powell -- who said in prepared remarks that the "current stance of monetary policy is likely to remain appropriate" -- traders are watching the first day of public impeachment hearings agai...Read More

HPQ's November 19.50 put has been popular latelyA week ago today, the shares of HP Inc (NYSE:HPQ) gapped higher amid reports of Xerox's (XRX) bid to take over HP is a cash-and-stock offer of $22 per share. Since then, however, the stock has cooled on news that the sale is facing some uncertainty -- and to make matters worse -- HPQ is sitting just below a historically bearish trendline.In other wo...Read More

NetApp will report its fiscal second-quarter earnings after the close todayThe shares of cloud software concern NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) are eyeing their fourth consecutive win today, inching up 0.9% to trade at $60.68 ahead of the firm's fiscal second-quarter earnings report, due out after the close tonight. Since staging a bounce off its one-month lows near the $49 region in mid-October, NTAP h...Read More

Alibaba expects to raise up to $15 billion in its Hong Kong IPOThe shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) are lower, after the company launched its secondary listing in Hong Kong. The China-based e-commerce giant said it expects to raise as much as $15 billion in the initial public offering (IPO), which would mark the world's biggest cross-border secondary listing ever, with the shares ex...Read More

UAL options can be had for a bargain, tooThe shares of United Continental Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:UAL) are trading at $92.71 this morning, after UBS initiated coverage on the airliner with a "buy" rating and $110 price target. The analyst in coverage glowed about the company's cost management profile in comparison to sector peers. UAL is now trading within a chip-shot of its Dec. 3 record high of $...Read More

Walmart's earnings release tomorrow could bring in more bullsWalmart Inc (NYSE:WMT) will report earnings before the open tomorrow, Nov. 14, and the stock just received a bullish analyst note from Telsey Advisory Group. The firm lifted its price target on the Dow component to $130 from $125, putting it deeper into record-high territory. WMT shares peaked at $120.92 last week, and are trading right...Read More

Wall Street is gearing up for Fed Chair Jerome Powell's testimony to the Congressional Joint Economic committee later todayDow futures are trading nearly 88 points below fair value this morning as investors look ahead to Fed Chair Jerome Powell's testimony later today before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, just weeks after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) once again cut interes...Read More

A look at how presidential elections affect stocks, and vice versa We're less than a year away from the 2020 U.S. presidential election. So, I decided to look at whether there's been anything significant about how stocks behaved in the year before elections. The table below summarizes the S&P 500 returns in the 252 trading days before Election Day each year since 1950 (Election Day is the Tuesday...Read More