Turkish prices for hot-dipped galvanized coil (HDG), and color-coated coil or pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI), increased in the week to Friday November 15, with demand improving on low stocks and expectations that prices will rise further, sources told Fastmarkets.They attributed the rise in steel prices to higher raw materials prices.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix...Read More

Domestic rebar prices in Poland have increased over the past week in response to higher costs for scrap raw material, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 15.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, exw Poland, was 1,980-2,000 zloty ($508-513) per tonne on November 15, compared with 1,950-1,970 zloty per tonne ex-works last week.The assessment reflec...Read More

Domestic prices for secondary steel billet in India over the week to Friday November 15 fell by 400 rupees ($6) per tonne, with makers of long steel products reducing their purchases of semi-finished material on a lack of sustained demand for products such as rebar.The price of steel billet, domestic, exw India, was assessed by Fastmarkets on November 15 down by 400 rupees per tonne to 26,000-26,2...Read More

By Valentina ZaMILAN, Nov 15 (Reuters) - The Bank of Italy has beencollecting data on how efficiently the unpaid loans sold off bybanks are being recouped, reflecting concerns about slowprogress and the potential fallout for taxpayers, two sourcesfamiliar with the matter said.Pushed by European supervisors to clean up their balancesheets after a brutal recession, Italian banks have shed some180 bi...Read More

Prices in Southeast Asia's steel billet market were given a boost during the week to Friday November 15 due to limited cargoes available in the spot market after Chinese buyers resumed billet imports. At least 140,000 tonnes of billet from various origins including India, Iran, Malaysia and Vietnam have been booked at $405-415 per tonne cfr China over the past week, sources told Fastmarkets.A trad...Read More

Pig iron export prices from Brazil have risen again on higher deal prices and full order books through the end of the year, market sources told Fastmarkets during the week ended Friday November 15. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for pig iron export, fob port of Vitoria/Rio, Brazil stood at $292-295 per tonne on November 15, narrowing upward from $287-295 per tonne a week before.One...Read More

Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 323,18956,123107,486210,067511,535640,742675,144 Change from Prior Reporting Period -21,402-8,6408,96228,37912,70915,93913,031 Traders 18774825154272183 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 67,72133,319708,463 2,3435,25118,282 non reportable positions...Read More

The major gold miners just enjoyed a phenomenal quarter for gold, which soared after its first bull-market breakout in years. Q3'19's much-higher prevailing gold prices should've driven soaring earnings for the miners, due to their big inherent profits leverage to gold. So this just-completed Q3 earnings season is the most important for this sector in a long time. Did the gold miners' fu...Read More

Dave KranzlerA mysterious "pledged gold" entry has just showed up on the Comex gold warehouse report. The definition of this new warehouse stock classification for gold is provided in Chapter 7 of the New York Mercantile Exchange rulebook.In brief, "eligible" gold is a gold bar stored in a Comex vault that meets Comex specifications (quality, size, purity, and brand).A "registered" gold bar is o...Read More

- Darryl Robert Schoon...the financial system experienced some serious liquidity shortages in August 2007, and the Fed injected funds to help keep financial markets operating effectively so that they would continue to support ongoing economic activityFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, August 2007In August 2007, a credit crunch swept global markets forcing central banks to provide billions...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinBears do not like to short in an oversold market. Gold moving off the lower volatility band, resistance area $1,485 area. $GDXJ at resistance at the 18-DMA, $GDX...Read More

By: Avi Gilburt(Originally published on Sat Nov 9 for our ElliottWaveTrader members)When the GLD dropped down off the October 25th high in a 5-wave structure, this provided us with the warning that a deeper c-wave can take hold. In fact, as we began the rally off that 5-wave decline, I began noting in our trading room that I was going to use GLD puts as a hedge to my overall metals positions,...Read More

Scrap prices in the global markets have been firm during the working week from Monday November 11 to Friday November 15 thanks to demand from mills in Turkey and Southeast Asia and to seasonal factors that raised costs. Turkish mills continue to book scrap for December, but concerns persist over weak long steel demand US suppliers seek higher prices for exports Chinese demand for downstream billet...Read More

Buyers in the United States resumed pig iron purchases at higher prices in the week to Friday November 15, due to the improving scrap and hot-rolled coil markets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US, was $323-327 per tonne, up from $320-325 per tonne a week earlier.Several bookings of Russia-origin pig iron were heard at $323-327 per tonne cfr f...Read More

Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More

"Universities like Princeton have done a good job at expanding and diversifying their undergraduate populations...If we want to make similar strides on the graduate level, we must Continue...Read More

Links to Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/headl...Are you watching all the "talking heads" on TV push this idea of optimism in our Economy, while completely ignoring the truth of what's going on in the big picture? I'm hoping the reason you're watching this video (and not the news) is because your gut tells you there's a lot of things they aren't telling you...and you'd be right...Read More

Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Charlie McElligott to MacroVoices. They discuss late cycle dynamics, how the CTA position estimating model works and if it's time to buy gold & more. Read More

Watch out for digital payment services. It's all in your phone and the fraudsters are out there taking your data. Through the miracle of the NFC (Near field communication) protocol, thieves can steal your financial info in a flash. Beware of fuel thieves, especially in Florida. They steal credit card data and then go to gas stations and load up their hidden tanks with a few hundred gallons. Then y...Read More

The quarterly report on household debt shows another record high. Delinquencies are up strongly as well.Continue...Read More