Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 2 that are worth another look.The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has issued 1,615 force majeure certificates to businesses in China affected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) outbreak.The price of European aluminium ingot 226 continued to climb on Friday February 28 due to strong domesti...Read More
Publication of Fastmarkets' assessment of blister copper refining charges (RCs) for February was delayed by a reporter error.The copper blister 98-99% RC, spot, cif China, is normally published on the last trading day of the month.The price should therefore have been published on Friday February 28. It was instead published on Monday March 2. The price was $135-145 per tonne in the latest assessme...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesMar 2, 2020Last week provided a glimpse into the future of the stock market. Only a glimpse. It is going to get a whole lot worse.On January 1, I said in an article I titled Beware the Stock Market,“As the Everything Bubble pops, the financial system will destroy most investors because they are unprepared.” Lest my readers misconstrue what I meant, I followed that...Read More
Spot trading interest in copper intermediate products has surged among Chinese smelters who are eager to make up for copper output lost during the coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-led logistics lockdown in February. Logistics operations are resuming across Chinese provinces and copper production has picked up, leading to several thousand tonnes of blister copper reported as being sold into the country. Fas...Read More
Jack ChanPosted Mar 2, 2020Gold sector as represented by $HUI is on a long-term BUY signal.Long-term signals can last for months and are more suitable for investors.Short-term is on SELL signal. Short-term signals can last for days and weeks and are more suitable for traders.Speculation on gold is at a new high, but what's more important is, a new speculative bottom is now established. That will h...Read More
Robert WutscherThe Unseasoned EconomistPosted Mar 2, 2020On money neutrality and the phenomenon of forced saving - how wealth is surreptitiously transferred from consumers to capital owners.In this third article to this series on inequality, we will see how, by targeting the CPI that ignores productivity-induced price deflation, savings are surreptitiously taken from consumers and handed over to c...Read More
Spot trading interest in copper intermediate products has surged among Chinese smelters who are eager to make up for copper output lost during the coronavirus (2019-nCoV)-led logistics lockdown in February. Logistics operations are resuming across Chinese provinces and copper production has picked up, leading to several thousand tonnes of blister copper reported as being sold into the country. Fas...Read More
The company had sought A$10 million initially, but said demand from sophisticated and institutional investors was strong. Shares will be issued at 21c each, an 8.7% discount to the last closing price.Read More
He said the drop was mainly driven by gold-focused exploration budget cuts and the lack of reinvigoration of exploration spend in the sector in the 2019 season.North America exploration spending was also impacted by major M&A activity such as that of Barrick Gold and Newmont, with the resultant exploration budgets of the merged companies usually much lower than the combined budgets of the indi...Read More
Cesco Santiago, one of the biggest annual events for the copper industry, has been canceled, organisers confirmed to Fastmarkets. "Both the World Copper Conference organized by CRU and Cesco Dinner will not take place this year," the organization said in a press release dated Monday March 2 after confirming by phone. The organization had been under pressure to at least delay the event because many...Read More
PlungerI would like to put out a quick special report to update you on the big picture in light of all of the market turmoil and provide some of the concepts which may suggest where we are going from here.First off I you were reading these reports in the late summer of 2018 I put out a 3-part series on the Post Bubble Contraction (PBC). Well the PBC has now arrived. Of course it was virtuall...Read More
Trade very carefully today. Central banks are all out to prevent a big crash in stock markets. Crude oil and copper are bullish at the moment. I used to write a monthly column for a jewelry magazine in India between 2007 and 2012. (Now I do not write articles for any media other than www.goldseek.com). In one of the articles I had written that gold prices will crash when human's survival is ques...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 2 that are worth another look.The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has issued 1,615 force majeure certificates to businesses in China affected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) outbreak.The price of European aluminium ingot 226 continued to climb on Friday February 28 due to strong domesti...Read More
The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has issued 1,615 force majeure certificates to businesses in China affected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) outbreak.Local exporters that applied for the force majeure "legal shield" cover over 30 different sectors, according to a CCPIT announcement on its website on February 26. The legal provision is traditionally used...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 2 that are worth another look.The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has issued 1,615 force majeure certificates to businesses in China affected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) outbreak.The price of European aluminium ingot 226 continued to climb on Friday February 28 due to strong domesti...Read More
The Turkish steel producers have extended their absence from the deep-sea scrap markets in expectation of lower prices, but suppliers were holding firm, sources said on Monday March 2.After buying several cargoes in the first three weeks of February, the mills stepped back from purchase activity at the beginning of last week.The most recent deep-sea transactions had put the price of HMS 1&2 (80:20...Read More
The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) has issued 1,615 force majeure certificates to businesses in China affected by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) outbreak.Local exporters that applied for the force majeure "legal shield" cover over 30 different sectors, according to a CCPIT announcement on its website on February 26. The legal provision is traditionally used...Read More
China's official manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) slumped to 35.7 in February from 50 previously, but despite this the base metals are up across the board this morning, Monday March 2, and Asian equity indices are for the most part firmer too. The buoyancy seems to stem from expectations that central banks will continue to pump liquidity into their economies to cushion the economic bl...Read More
Today is Monday, March 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 $1,601.85. It's up 1.01% from yesterday and up 23.91%...Read More
Today is Monday, March 2, 2020, and this is your daily energy stocks roundup. Today we're looking at the valuations of Valvoline (NYSE: VVV), ProPetro Holding Corporation (NYSE: PUMP), and Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure (NYSE: SOI).Valvoline (NYSE: VVV)Valvoline (NYSE: VVV) is a $3.641 billion company today with a one-year return of 3.78%. Let's look at its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, its ente...Read More