Nov 20, 2019 Guest(s): Todd 'Bubba' Horwitz Chief Market Strategist, BubbaTrading.com Gold prices remain unchanged Wednesday following the release of the FOMC minutes from the October meeting, but the long-term trajectory for the yellow metal is still constructive, said Todd Horwitz, chief strategist of BubbaTrading.com. "Over time, gold's going to go much higher, but in the near-term here, I do...Read More
The three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange continued to fall at the close of trading on Wednesday November 20, with continued selling pressure and supportive forward spreads prompting the metal's lowest close since July.Nickel's outright price on the LME closed at $14,360 per tonne in the afternoon, falling by just over 2% from an intraday high of $14,695 per tonne. Turnover was at...Read More
There is a distinct possibility that the bond market, the stock market and the economy all peaked in the third quarter of 2019. Something is wrong. Beyond the Bull author Ken Norquay says the normal rules seem to have been suspended this time around.In my stock market book, Beyond the Bull, I observed that in the financial world: "Everything's connected to everything else." What financial trends c...Read More
The spot tin market is reportedly slow in all regions despite talk of forthcoming production cuts to tackle excess supply. 99.9% European tin premium declines for the first time in five months Trade in the United States holds in range but some say floor is moving lower Asian premiums hold in thin tradeEuropean premiums decline on excess supply, soft demandFastmarkets' tin 99.9% ingot premium, in-...Read More
Weekly Reports |Nov 20 2019The sudden burst of buying interest appearing two weeks ago in the uranium market continued last week as producers stepped in.-No news on Working Group report-U3O8 spot price jumps for a second week-Uranium producers join utilities on the buy-sideBy Greg PeelIn last week's Uranium Week I noted:"Clearly trade talks are again reaching a crescendo, so maybe November...Read More
Fastmarkets' US zinc premium was unchanged in the week to Tuesday November 19 from a week earlier due to the persistent backwardation in the metal's forward curve despite record lows in the stocks registered to the London Metal Exchange in the United States.US lead premiums remained flat as well but may rise in the coming weeks due to the fallout from the closure of Glencore's New Brunswick lead s...Read More
Copper smelters will slow capacity expansions if market terms for copper concentrates fall to reflect a potential market deficit, Jiangxi Copper's Yuanfeng Xu said at Fastmarkets' Asia Copper Conference in Shanghai on Wednesday November 20."Right now [smelting] capacity is still increasing, so the future potential risk may come from the supply from the ore mining side," Xu, who is vice president o...Read More
Assuming stable growth in copper demand, the world is lacking investment in new mine projects amid expansion in smelting capacity, with a large gap seen in the mined copper balance over the next decade, according to Anglo American's base metals chief. While copper consumption is expected to grow by an annual rate of around 2-3%, there will be demand for 7 million tonnes of refined copper emerging...Read More
London and Frankfurt-listed Bluejay completed its latest round of fundraising on November 18, which saw the company issue 115 million new shares.Read More
Vancouver, BC - Select Sands Corp. (TSX-V:SNS | OTCQX: SLSDF) (the "Company") announces operational and financial results for Q2 2019, and the filing of its financial statements and associated management's discussion and analysis on www.sedar.com. All dollar references in this release are in U.S. dollars. The Company will host a conference call on Thursday, November 21 at 10:00 A.M. Cent...Read More
Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to provide an update on current targeting plans for the Hurricane zone at the Larocque East property. The Hurricane zone is located on the Company's 100% owned Larocque East property (the "Property") in the Eastern Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan (Figure 1).The Company also notes that in recent weeks the uranium price as...Read More
Turkish steel producers have continued to book deep-sea scrap for December deliveries but only at a slow pace due to the limited demand for finished long steel products, with prices holding steady, sources said on Wednesday November 20.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo on November 20, comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $261 per tonne and 5,000 tonnes of bonus...Read More
By: Gary SavageThe bullion banks have been able to take gold down at will, dumping gold contracts usually in the pre-markets..http://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More
- Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. Top US politicians describe the US economy as the "mightiest of all time". 2. Please click here now. Houston, we have a problem! The next tariff tax deadline is now only about three weeks away. 3. While Trump's diehard fans may want him to hike these taxes again if China doesn't "play ball", massive FOREX liquidity fl...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold formally ended a downtrend phase. $1,456.60 is swingline support short-term..Read More
Over 90% of copper scrap products currently allowed into China could be eligible for renaming as recyclable copper raw materials next year, a senior representative of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association's (CMRA) recycling metal branch told delegates at Asia Copper Week in Shanghai.Wang Ji-Wei, Secretary General of CMRA, said he is optimistic that the vast majority of current copper scrap...Read More
Improved sentiment has taken hold in the European hot-rolled coil market, but so far domestic prices have recovered only in Italy while those in the the North of the region remain largely unchanged, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 20.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel HRC, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was ?,?420-425 ($465-471) per tonne on November 20, unchanged over t...Read More
Steelmaking in electric arc furnaces (EAF) is already a good example of a waste-free circular economy since more than half of global steel output is being recycled, even if higher-quality materials are still produced from virgin materials and fossil-fueled processes, the president of the European Steel Technology Platform (ESTEP) said at a workshop in Bergamo, northern Italy last week. Carl de Mar...Read More
Iran learned a very important lesson last week.It's a lesson that Venezuela has painfully come to realize over the last 10 years.The oil you have underground is useless unless you can extract it. Until you get that resource out of the ground and into the pipeline, you might as well forget about it. So when Iran's president announced the country had suddenly found a 53 billion-barrel oil field, it...Read More
China's hot-rolled coil prices continued to climb on Wednesday November 20 amid sustained demand.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,660-3,700 yuan ($521-527) per tonne, up 10-40 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tangshan): 3,670 yuan per tonne, up 50-60 yuan per tonneIn Shanghai, HRC was sold at 3,660-3,670 yuan per tonne in the morning, but sellers raised these in the afternoon on seeing how strong...Read More