AstraZeneca just received more good news from the FDAAstraZeneca plc (NYSE:AZN) is in focus this morning after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the company's Imfinzi priority review status for small cell lung cancer. Even so, AZN shares are 0.6% lower in pre-market trading after closing Wednesday at $48.77. The lack of strong price action from this news could be because the stock had al...Read More
Dow futures are trading below fair value after a record-setting monthStock futures are in cool-down mode ahead of today's shortened session, following this month's string of fresh highs. Despite this, major equity benchmarks are eyeing impressive monthly gains, with the S&P looking to clock its biggest one-month percentage jump since June. The retail sector is in focus as the Black Friday shopping...Read More
Money manager Adrian Day looks at three junior resource companies whose stocks are down significantly in the past few months, and attributes some of this to tax-loss selling. He also lists a handful of companies he believes are best buys right now. Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ:NYSE.MKT; VGZ:TSX, US$0.59) has published an updated prefeasibility study (PFS) on its Mt Todd project in the Northern Territorie...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinNothing bullish on the daily chart. This could change..Read More
David Becker6 hours ago (Nov 29, 2019 6:52 PM GMT)Gold prices moved higher on Friday, the last trading day of November. For the month the yellow metal declined by 3.2% as riskier assets gained traction. The dollar eased and the Euro moved higher on Friday, paving the way for higher gold prices. The EU reported its preliminary estimate for November CPI which rose more than expected. Germany surpris...Read More
Turkish long steel producer Ko?? Metalurji will resume production at its steel and rolling mills at reduced outputs at the beginning of the December, a company spokesperson told to Fastmarkets on Friday November 29.Ko?? Metalurji had stopped production at all its steelmaking operations on October 1 as a result of weak long steel and billet market conditions .Demand and prices for rebar export...Read More
Christopher Lewis6 hours ago (Nov 29, 2019 6:42 PM GMT)Gold markets have rallied a bit during the trading session on Friday, showing signs of resiliency, and at this point the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level has been offering quite a bit of support. The $1450 level is a large, round, psychologically significant figure and it is also at the top of the ascending triangle that we had broken out of....Read More
Global scrap prices returned to growth during the week ended Friday November 29, with trading continuing in all the major scrap markets except the United States, which was quiet due to its Thanksgiving holiday,Prices move up in Turkey but trading thinUS market quiet on Thanksgiving holidayIndian market inches up on fresh dealsPrices up in Vietnam on higher transaction pricesTaiwan prices up on sol...Read More
Christopher Lewis8 hours ago (Nov 29, 2019 5:09 PM GMT)Gold markets have fallen initially during the week, reaching down towards the $1450 level, an area that has been important more than once. By doing so, the market looks as if it is ready to turn around and bounce, but we need to break out above the top of the weekly candle from the previous week. Otherwise, if we were to break down below the $...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinNothing bullish on the daily chart. This could change..Read More
The export price for Brazilian steel slabs continued its uptrend during the week ended Friday November 29 with more expensive offers to North America starting to be accepted, market participants told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel slab, export, fob main port Brazil, at $360-380 per tonne on Friday, narrowing upward from $355-380 per tonne a week before. The midpoint was at it...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their latest price moves from the past week.Read More
The inter-merchant spot price for light iron scrap in the UK was unchanged in the week ended Friday November 29, based on a steady increase in European export prices to Turkey and regular demand from major British shredders, trade sources told Fastmarkets.In the near term, year-end holidays in the UK and across Europe, as well as winter conditions, were expected to underpin or possibly raise scrap...Read More
The three-month price of nickel traded on the London Metal Exchange continued its descent below $14,000 per tonne to close at $13,675 per tonne on Friday 29, down by 2.3%, amid stainless steel demand concerns and ongoing macro tension between the United States and China. Nickel futures have come under constant pressure from the LME three-month nickel price depreciating by 27% to its current level...Read More
Benchmark fob Australia prices for alumina remained below $280 per tonne in the week ended Friday November 29 despite deals for India-origin material still being made at higher levels.Fastmarkets calculated the benchmark daily alumina index, fob Australia, at $277.81 per tonne on Friday, down from $279.30 per tonne at the start of the week.Key drivers The most recent fob Australia deal this week w...Read More
Seaborne coking coal prices ended the week higher amid a flurry of transactions on Friday November 29. Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $134.66 per tonne, up $0.99 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $147.30 per tonne, down $0.47Hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $120.70 per tonne, unchangedHard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $130.25 per tonne, unchanged...Read More
Taking delivery of physical silver broke the ponzi scheme...Nick Giambruno interviewed by Patrick V. on SBTVWe are joined on SBTV by Nick Giambruno, Chief Analyst at Casey Research, as we review the silver trade of the Hunt Brothers and how current inflationary monetary policies could force market participants to repeat the Hunts' silver trade.Nick's article - Silver Will Benefit From America's De...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ending Friday November 29.ChinaChinese spot domestic ferro-chrome prices resumed their decline, which reflects weaker demand from mills and traders, which have a broadly bearish outlook on forthcoming announcements on tenders from major mills. Charge chrome prices dropped in...Read More
Austenitic alloy steel scrap prices in the UK domestic market were largely stable this week because low demand was matched by dwindling supply, sources said on Friday November 29.Fastmarkets' price assessment for stainless steel scrap 316 solids, domestic, delivered merchants UK, was ?1,170-1,250 ($1,512-1,615) per tonne on November 29, widening upward by ?20 per tonne and returning to the level...Read More
The three-month price of nickel traded on the London Metal Exchange continued its descent below $14,000 per tonne to close at $13,675 per tonne on Friday 29, down by 2.3%, amid stainless steel demand concerns and ongoing macro tension between the United States and China. Nickel futures have come under constant pressure from the LME three-month nickel price depreciating by 27% to its current level...Read More