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

AMAT has tacked on 86% in 2019 aloneChip name Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) is up 8% to trade at $61.53 -- and nabbed a fresh annual high of $61.90 this morning -- the equity swimming in bull notes after the company's fiscal fourth-quarter results last night. Applied Materials shared a quarterly beat and forecast its fiscal first-quarter revenue at $4.1 billion, above analyst estimates. T...Read More

It's not entirely clear to us why the utilities stock sold off suddenly on ThursdayUtilities stock CenterPoint Energy, Inc. (NYSE:CNP) fell sharply yesterday, closing the session down 5% amid heavy trading volume to hit a fresh 52-week low. It's not entirely clear what was behind the selling, but a number of bear notes have come through since yesterday's close. Last evening Credit Suisse downgrade...Read More

Larry Kudlow said Thursday evening that a phase one trade deal between China and the U.S. was imminent Renewed trade optimism has Dow futures on the rebound after last night's drop. The blue chip index is signaling an 80-point gain on comments from White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow that the U.S. and China are on the precipice of a trade agreement. Elsewhere, investors are combing over a b...Read More

Brazilian miner Vale has diversified its iron ore sales to yuan-denominated futures contract pricing, which is the first time for global miners to use such pricing.Vale's Shanghai branch has signed a deal with the trading arm of Shandong Laigang Yongfeng Steel for a Qingdao-port-delivered cargo of Brazilian Blend fines to be priced against the May 2020 iron ore futures contract on China's Dalian C...Read More

Guinea's largest bauxite developer, SMB-Winning Consortium, has won a tender to develop two blocks of the Simandou project, the site of what is considered one of the world's largest untapped deposits of high-grade iron ore.Shareholders of SMB-Winning Consortium include China Hongqiao Group Limited, a leading manufacturer of aluminum products in China, and Yantai Port Group, a port operator in the...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

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

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

An overview of the minor metals markets and their latest price moves.Read More

European steelmakers increased their offer prices on hot-rolled coil at the end of this week, and transaction prices were also expected to rise, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 15.Some Northern European mills announced a price rise for the product of about ?,?30 ($33) per tonne, according to market sources.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel HRC, domestic, exw Northern Europ...Read More

Suppliers are offering wider discounts in early negotiations for long-term ferro-vanadium contracts for 2020 compared with this year, according to market sources. Long-term contracts for ferro-vanadium in Europe are usually settled against Fastmarkets' European benchmark price assessment with the parties agreeing a discount to the published price to take prevailing market fundamentals into account...Read More

The three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange was unable to close above nearby resistance amid low turnover on Friday November 15, while tin topped losses in a 1.2% downturn. Nickel's underlying price on the LME closed at $14,975 per tonne, failing to hold above the nearby $15,000 per tonne resistance level despite achieving an intraday high of $15,155 per tonne. Volumes traded in LME...Read More

Seaborne coking coal prices saw little movement on Friday November 15 amid divided opinion on the impact that the latest import restrictions at Chinese ports would have on the market.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $133.81 per tonne, down $0.72 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $147.82 per tonne, down $1.42 per tonneHard coking coal, fob DBCT: $120.70 per tonn...Read More