The impacts felt by the week-long strike resulted in costly disruptions for Canadian mining companies, many of which incurred significant impacts over the past seven days, including lost sales and customers.Given the mining industry is the most significant customer of Canada's Class I railways, consistently accounting for most (52.3% in 2018) of its rail freight revenues generated annually and is...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAThe precious metals sector remains in a correction. The miners have shown some positive signs but are not ready to move yet because the metals likely have more correction ahead.Technical support levels can provide us with low risk buy opportunities but combine that with sentiment data and we increase our odds of success.One reason why the sector is stuck in a correction...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold could see another wave to the downside if the low of yesterday does not hold:Read More
The range trade in gold and silver which has been there in November will be broken in December. Volatility will rise. A new trend should be formed in December. I expect the US dollar Index to crash. Brexit, US jobs numbers and actual signing of the US-China trade deal should be market mover or market shaker in December. Gold managed to trade over $1448 and needs to trade over $1448 to try and ri...Read More
Key data from the November 27 pricing session in London. Key drivers: - Cobalt prices continue to come under pressure while traders seek to destock ahead of the end of the year.- Spot inquiries are scant,...Read More
Turkish steel mills have started booking deep-sea scrap for January shipment at higher prices, sources said on Wednesday November 27.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a European cargo, comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (75:25), 5,000 tonnes of shredded and 5,000 tonnes of a mixture of HMS 1, and plate and structural scrap (P&S) at an average price of $262.50 per tonne cfr late on Tuesday...Read More
Further positive signs of a phase one trade deal between the United States and China boosted sentiment across a broad selection of markets on Tuesday November 26, and that included most of the base metals, but so far today metal prices have generally been consolidating.US equity markets climbed to fresh highs on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump said the US and China are close to agreeing a...Read More
Key data from the November 27 pricing session in London. Key drivers: - Cobalt prices continue to come under pressure while traders seek to destock ahead of the end of the year.- Spot inquiries are scant,...Read More
Key data from the Wednesday November 27 pricing session in Shanghai. Key drivers The Chinese cobalt sulfate price broke the eight-week downward streak, holding on fresh restocking appetite and producer reluctance to sell at lower levels amid strength in the metal's futures market. The cobalt metal contract price on the Wuxi Stainless Steel Exchange rose by nearly 1% on Wednesday after b...Read More
Verge reported this week that Fiat Chrysler is shopping for EV tech from damaged startups like Faraday Future and Seres.Sounds about right.Fiat has actually been a laggard in the EV space, and former CEO Sergio Marchionne was responsible for much of this. The guy always had a problem seeing beyond the smoke screens of the antiquated internal combustion vehicle. In fact, back in 2014, he actually t...Read More
Most of us are looking forward to the new year.Millions of people will celebrate New Year's Eve watching a ball drop in Times Square, with tens of millions more gathered with close friends at home anxiously waiting to pop the cork off a bottle of champagne.Some, however, will be in a full-blown panic."There's going to be chaos on the very first day of the year, and NOBODY can see it coming."I was...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe were expected to rise due to restocking activity and lower availability in the spot market, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 27.Fastmarkets' latest weekly price assessment for steel HRC, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was ?,?420-425 ($463-468) per tonne on November 27, unchanged over the week.The assessment was based on the lates...Read More
China's hot-rolled coil prices weakened on Wednesday November 27, with trading being moderate.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,690-3,720 yuan ($525-530) per tonne, widening downward by 10 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tangshan): 3,630-3,640 yuan per tonne, down 10-20 yuan per tonneAlthough prices in the east of the country remained largely stable, a source there said that was partly b...Read More
China's plate exporters kept prices unaltered over the past week on domestic gains, but trading was thin.Fastmarkets' price assessment for January shipments of steel heavy plate export, fob China main port was $460-465 per tonne for the week ended Tuesday November 26, unchanged from a week earlier.A Beijing-based trader heard a plate deal sold to Japan last week for road paving, with the base...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday November 27 that are worth another look.Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau has agreed to buy 96.4% of Sider??rgica Latino-Americana (Silat) shares from Spanish group Hierros A????n for $110.8 million, in a shift from its divestment strategy of the past four years.Shifting London Metal Exchange zinc and lead prices have dictated premi...Read More
The price of steel mesh-quality wire rod in the Northern Europe domestic market edged upward this week, primarily because of higher ferrous scrap costs, Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday November 27.Mills said that recent price increases had been readily accepted by consumers and that order books were now at very healthy levels, in terms of both month-on-month and year-on-year comparisons.Indeed, one...Read More
The price of rebar in the Southern European domestic market increased this week on improved demand in Italy and Spain and higher scrap costs, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 27.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Southern Europe, was ?,?465-480 ($512-529) per tonne on Wednesday, up by ?,?10-15 per tonne week on week.Following m...Read More
Turkish steel mills have started booking deep-sea scrap for January shipment at higher prices, sources said on Wednesday November 27.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a European cargo, comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (75:25), 5,000 tonnes of shredded and 5,000 tonnes of a mixture of HMS 1, and plate and structural scrap (P&S) at an average price of $262.50 per tonne cfr late on Tuesday...Read More
Physical iron ore prices generally weakened on Wednesday November 27 amid further losses in futures and steel markets.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $87.56 per tonne, down $1.74 per tonne.62% Fe Pilbara Blend fines, cfr Qingdao: $87.59 per tonne, down $1.74 per tonne.62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $87.03 per tonne, down $1.68 per tonne.58% Fe fines hi...Read More
Gary Christenson, The Deviant InvestorInvestopedia says, "In the United States, the Federal Reserve acts as the lender of last resort to institutions that do not have any other means of borrowing, and whose failure to obtain credit would dramatically affect the economy."The Fed has created $billions in the past ten weeks (more on the way) and fed those billions into troubled banks, hedge fund...Read More