The China Solid Waste and Chemicals Management Bureau will allow up to 275,465 tonnes of aluminium scrap shipments into the country in the first batch of import quotas for 2020. The volume is significantly higher than for December, which was set at 9,844 tonnes of aluminium scrap - down from 13,770 tonnes in the previous quota. This, in turn, was less than the 44,935 tonnes issued in October....Read More
The ferrous scrap market in the United States might be calmer in 2020, with metals recyclers potentially facing less volatility and price declines than in 2019, which could present a unique set of opportunities for buyers and sellers.Market participants do not expect the steep decline in prices that characterized the market in 2019 to reoccur due to the extent of that drop. Fastmarkets' asses...Read More
Turkish domestic auto bundle scrap prices continued to push up this week in line with rising imported scrap values, sources said on Monday December 23.Two steel mills raised their buy prices for auto bundle scrap by 60 Turkish lira ($10) per tonne in response to the rising imported scrap costs.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS...Read More
Oil and gas stocks have mostly underperformed in 2019, as commodity prices floundered amid an increase in supplies.Crude oil averaged about $63.50 per barrel this year - 9% lower than the average price in 2018 of almost $70 per barrel. Meanwhile, natural gas struggled even more.Natural gas prices have averaged 18% lower in 2019 than they were last year.As a result, the energy sector was one of the...Read More
The European Commission (EC) is planning to again review its safeguard measures for hot-dipped galvanized (HDG) flat steel destined for the automotive sector, market sources told Fastmarkets this week.In the definitive measures for metallic-coated sheets (product category 4), the EC split the product category into two sub-categories, 4A and 4B, with the automotive sector mainly consuming...Read More
The export market for hot-rolled coil and cold-rolled coil from the Commonwealth of Independent States was strong ahead of the holiday period, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday December 23.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel HRC, export, fob Black Sea was $460-475 per tonne on Monday, widening upward from $460-470 per tonne a week earlier.Offers for Russia-origin HRC were heard at...Read More
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Overcapacity in the global steel sector has been an issue for many years, but has intensified in the recent years, according to Ankur Dana, chief executive officer of Dubai-based multinational Dana Group .Global overcapacity causes steel prices to fall, so governments should only approve new capacities if there is need, Dana said at Fastmarkets' Middle East Iron and Steel Conference in Dubai on De...Read More
Import prices for rebar in Singapore edged up over the past week amid a further strengthening of the ferrous scrap market upstream.The weekly Fastmarkets price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar) import, cfr Singapore - which mainly looks at cargoes sold into Singapore on a theoretical-weight basis - was $445-450 per tonne for the week to Monday December 23, narrowing upward by $5 per ton...Read More
China's rebar prices were mixed on Monday December 23, with market participants divided in their outlook for the market in January.Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,800-3,830 yuan ($542-546) per tonne, down 10 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,520-3,560 yuan per tonne, up 20 yuan per tonneSome participants think inventory in the spot market in January will stay low, which will sup...Read More
The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for rebar, wire rod, beams and other long steel products.Latest transaction: rebarRebar East China, domestic, grade...Read More
The ferrous scrap market in the United States might be calmer in 2020, with metals recyclers potentially facing less volatility and price declines than in 2019, which could present a unique set of opportunities for buyers and sellers.Market participants do not expect the steep decline in prices that characterized the market in 2019 to reoccur due to the extent of that drop. Fastmarkets' asses...Read More
TECHNICAL SCOOPCharts and commentary by David ChapmanChief Strategist, Enriched Investing Inc.Phone: 416-523-5454 Email: david@davidchapman.comdchapman@enrichedinvesting.comTwitter: @Davcha12December 23, 2019 "Gold is money. Everything else is credit." J.P. Morgan, American financier, banker, dominated corporate finance on Wall Street during the Gilded Age; 1837-1913 "Because gold is honest mo...Read More
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 23, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (FSM) (FVI.TO) is pleased to provide an update on construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning activities at its 100 percent owned Lindero gold Project located in the Province of Salta, Argentina.Jorge A. Ganoza, President, CEO and Director, commented, "Minor delays and unavailability of vendors due t...Read More
By: Gary SavageGold is churning, not doing a whole lot of damage, except to gold investors' mental state. We are now 3 1/2 months into the sideways churn. A market bouncing back and forth from overbought and oversold...http://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold has a bullish and negative bias -- what's next for gold this holiday week:Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend Stuart Englert, who is writing a book on gold price suppression, calls attention to a declassified 1970 Central Intelligence Agency memorandum asserting that the Special Drawing Rights of the International Monetary Fund were created in 1967 in large part to reduce the world's demand for gold and particularly to reduce exchange of U.S. dollars, the world re...Read More
Friday's subdued rally had more than a faint whiff of distribution about it. DaBoyz had shorts on the run in the early going, with the Dow up about 230 points in the first hour. But instead of reaming bears a new orifice as we might have expected, the erstwhile Masters of the Universe struggled merely to maintain altitude and eventually had to close the broad averages well off their intraday h...Read More
Look for signs of profit taking in all metals and energies as traders leave for Christmas and New Year vacations. China will lower trade tariff on a host of products ranging from pork to some type of semi-conductor. Gold and silver should fall as a result of Chinese move. Right now gold and silver are firm due to Trump and his impeachment. But they will be vulnerable to sharp correction any time...Read More
Simple ConceitRadical ActionsBallooning Balance SheetMerry Christmas and the Happiest New YearIgnoring problems rarely solves them. You need to deal with them not just the effects, but the underlying causes, or else they usually get worse. The older you get, the more you know that is true in almost every area of life.In the developed world and especially the US, and even in China, our economic c...Read More