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Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday December 11.Key drivers  Price ranges in the alloy and scrap markets have widened over the past week, with sales reported for ferro-silicon at either end of its new price assessment.Low-tin titanium scrap was also trading at slightly higher price levels, although some sources said the market is fairly stable, with a b...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday December 11.Key drivers  Price ranges in the alloy and scrap markets have widened over the past week, with sales reported for ferro-silicon at either end of its new price assessment.Low-tin titanium scrap was also trading at slightly higher price levels, although some sources said the market is fairly stable, with a b...Read More

When Gay Huey Evans attended her first London Metal Exchange dinner in 1999, she was head of markets at former UK regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) - some 20 years later she was there as LME chair elect, the first woman appointed to the role. "As a regulator I would send my markets people and occasionally come to learn a little bit more about commodities. I remember sitting in the b...Read More

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States continue to hover around the $28-per-hundredweight ($560-per-short-ton) threshold in a mostly muted market.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $28.04 per cwt ($560.80 per ton) on Wednesday December 11, up by 0.3% from $27.96 per cwt on December 10 and up by 0.4% from $27.93 per cwt a week...Read More

European producers of heavy steel plate have been targeting domestic price rises this week, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday December 11.The price recovery was due to combination of higher slab costs for re-rollers, some recovery of demand due to re-stocking activity and a positive mood in the EU coil market, sources said.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel, domestic, pla...Read More

Domestic prices for cold-rolled coil in Europe increased across the board over the past week, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday December 11.The rise of CRC was driven by combination of demand improvement owing to restocking activity, production cuts across Europe and higher hot-rolled coil prices, the material used as feedstock for CRC production.On December 11, Fastmarkets' steel...Read More

The price of mesh-quality steel wire rod in the European domestic market was unchanged this week due to a lack of activity, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday December 11. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel wire rod (mesh-quality), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?440-460 ($487-510) per tonne on December 11, unchanged week on week.Fastmarkets' assessment for...Read More

Turkey is calling for a level playing field when it comes to trading with the European Union and the United States, Turkish steelmakers said during a panel discussion at Fastmarkets' Middle East Iron and Steel conference in Dubai.Speaking on Tuesday December 10 in a panel discussion about the protectionism Turkish steel faces in its major steel export markets, panelists said they were on...Read More

The price of steel rebar in the Northern European domestic market was unchanged this week, but increases could soon take place because of rising scrap costs, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday December 11. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Northern Europe was ?,?475-485 ($526-537) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged from a week...Read More

Iron ore seaborne prices were up on Wednesday December 11 as steel mills were heard to have kept production levels steady, prompting appetite for the raw material.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $94.67 per tonne, up $1.10 per tonne.62% Fe Pilbara Blend fines, cfr Qingdao: $93.76 per tonne, up $1.10 per tonne.62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $94.19 per to...Read More

Anglo American has cut its annual iron ore production targets at the Kumba operations in South Africa over the 2020-2022 period, but left those for its Minas Rio operations in Brazil unchanged.The miner said it now expects annual iron ore output of 42-43 million tonnes for the coming three years at its Kumba iron...Read More

Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. Can gold take out the 2019 highs and carry the miners on a mighty bull run that will stun all the naysayers? 2. Well, please click here now. Goldman analysts think it will happen!3. Some gold bugs view the big banks as "banksters". I like to differentiate between the bank algo traders that operate on the COMEX and the fundamental ana...Read More

COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 11, 2019-- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") today announced the expansion of its Mirador Mine with fifteen (15) exploration drill hole results from its 2019 Alta Gracia projects drill program located at its Oaxaca Mining Unit, Mexico. Highlights include 3.72 meters grading 1.44 grams per tonne (g/t) gold and 990 g/t silver, including 1.00 m...Read More

By: Daniel R. Amerman, CFAAs can be seen in the graph above, for the last 12 weeks there has been a stunning visual correlation between the yellow bars of the total weekly funding of deficits by the Federal Reserve, and the green bars of the weekly deficit spending by the United States government.Total deficit spending, the extent to which monies spent by the federal government exceeded taxes co...Read More

Stefan Gleason, Money MetalsGold-linked exchange-traded products are growing in popularity with investors. Assets held by gold ETFs have grown 38% globally in 2019.In October, according to the World Gold Council, gold ETFs attracted $1.9 billion in net inflows to reach a new record high total gold holding of 2,900 tonnes - at least on paper.There is good reason to be skeptical of whether all the...Read More

- Craig Hemke, TF MetalsThough we're still three weeks away from flipping the calendar, let's begin to look forward to 2020 and attempt to decipher whether or not the precious metals can build upon their 2019 gains.For precious metals enthusiasts, this time of year is always difficult. Often, holdings in mining shares get beaten backward due to tax loss selling. Mainstream "analysts" and inves...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinImpeachment in the news. US/Chinese trade deal still unknown. Gold weekly chart has gone flat. Gold needs to hold above $1,450 area..Read More

China's domestic rebar prices were mixed amid weaker demand on Wednesday December 11, with eastern prices up but those in the north of the country down.Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,930-3,960 yuan ($558-563) per tonne, up 20 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,640-3,670 yuan per tonne, down 10-20 yuan per tonneEnd users kept procurement rates limited and stockists were not looking to repl...Read More

Everything will depend on trade deal and impeachment news of Trump. UK election result will have only a temporary effect. Traders will start taking positions for early January from next week. Forget your bullish or bearish biases for any investment and be ready to make some good profit. The next four days for the investment world will be similar to playing a T20 cricket match. I was a bit disapp...Read More