Make no mistake: Oil and gas companies may be doing some serious cost-cutting and slimming-and-trimming to stay competitive after the shale boom binge, but when it comes to employment, it’s still one of the best industries to hit up for a job.Jobs are booming, just as much as U.S. oil and gas production is.US oil production has increased from 11.7 million bpd at the start of 2019 to 12.6 mil...Read More
The three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange continued to fall over the course of Monday November 11 to end the day's trading down by just under 4% against high turnover, while the rest of the complex similarly closed lower. The nickel futures price closed at $15,565 per tonne on Monday afternoon, its lowest 5pm closing price since August 7. Turnover in nickel was high over the day wi...Read More
David Becker5 hours ago (Nov 11, 2019 8:10 PM GMT)Gold prices edged lower on Monday, and showed little energy to bounce following a sharp drop on Friday. US yields also remain elevated following a surge on Friday and the dollar consolidated its recent gains. The strong showing in US yields put downward pressure on the greenback, and weaker than expected data in the UK did little to help ease deman...Read More
A line chart can give you a different perspective vs a bar chart which is why I like to use them both to help uncover a potential pattern. Line charts can often times give you a quicker heads when a stock is breaking out.Below is a weekly line chart for GLD which shows you why I’m so concerned about the PM complex right now. As you can see this weekly line chart shows a triple top with the b...Read More
Something has changed in the gold industry. During high gold-price periods the trend was to produce as much as possible - in many cases, irrespective of higher extraction costs per ounce. In a way you can’t blame them for making hay while the sun shone. The gold price rose for 12 consecutive years, hitting an all-time high of $1,907 an ounce in that heady summer of 2011. Why wouldn’t i...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday November 11 that are worth another look.Chinese steelmaker Hebei Jingye Group has agreed to acquire British Steel, including its Scunthorpe steelworks and other assets, the UK government's Official Receiver and the company's administrator, EY, said on November 11.Chilean copper production grew by 1.2% year on year in September, a...Read More
Gold has been the most popular form of investment and one of themost reliable assets recognized for its multiple use and rare value. Followingthe recent introduction of other investment substitutes, a number of people aremade to believe that gold is less superior than the others. This article willhighlight five reasons why gold has not lost its value, but still thrives as aninvestible A perfect A...Read More
By: Avi GilburtWhile reading of the title of this article may cause you to make certain assumptions about what you are about to read, I can assure you that this is not a politically motivated article. In fact, politics has absolutely nothing to do with the analysis and conclusions presented herein.I want to start with the assumption that we have spoken about so often, and that it is social moo...Read More
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in David Jensenof Jensen Strategic and a highly studied mining analyst and precious metalsexpert with close to two decades of experience in the mining industry. And it'sgreat to have him back on with us.David, thanks so much for thetime again today, and it's nice to talk to you again. Welcome.David Jensen: Thank you, Mike. It's good to be back with y...Read More
Oftentimes, you need to have patience when it comes to the metals.You see, while they move very quickly when they do move, the rest of the time they simply consolidate until they are ready for their next big move.We have been waiting to see if the market is going to provide us that deeper pullback we wanted to see, and today seems to have triggered that potential.But, not all charts are showing th...Read More
Let'stake a closer look at the chart below (chart courtesy of www.stooq.com ) and assess the likelycrude oil price path ahead. Wewrote these words yesterday, and they ring true also today:(…)The short-term situation hasn’t changed much. Crude oil futures keep tradinginside the blue consolidation and around the red support/resistance line andthe 50% Fibonacci retracement.They’re...Read More
Fundamental analysis versus Elliott wave analysis: the winner for predicting the 9-year long commodity bear market is clear. 95% of traders fail. It's a day-drinking, country-music kind of statistic. Think: "Friends in Sell-Low, Buy-High Places."One article attempts to quantify the reasons, citing: "SCIENTIST DISCOVERED WHY MOST TRADERS LOSE MONEY -- 24 SURPRISING STATISTICS." See number 14:"Inves...Read More
Silverplunged on Tuesday, just as it was likely to afterthe triple reversal that we’ve been writing about, and it was decliningstrongly during Wednesday’s pre-market trading. And then it all changed. Silversoared before the U.S. markets opened and the white metal ended the session inthe green. We definitely saw a silver reversal. But, was it significant and canit be trusted?Wedoubt tha...Read More
This morning in pre-market the Amigos’ futures charts update the macro story……which goes something like this… Copper, the cyclical Amigo (weekly chart) has furthered the intermediate trend line break we noted on October 25th. This is in line with the rally in US and global stock markets and even more so, the global macro reflation theme. It does not look so impressive ye...Read More
Ole Hansen14 hours ago (Nov 11, 2019 10:51 AM GMT)Saxo Bank publishes two weekly Commitment of Traders reports (COT) covering leveraged fund positions in bonds and stock index futures. For IMM currency futures and the VIX, we use the broader measure called non-commercial.The below summary highlights futures positions and changes made by hedge funds across 24 commodities futures up until last Tuesd...Read More
As it has done with cobalt, graphite and rare earths, China appears to be locking up the nickel market. Nickel’s top producer, Indonesia, in early September decided to accelerate a scheduled ban on ore export shipments, from 2022 to January 1, 2020. The ban which instead took immediate effect on Oct. 28, is to encourage the building of domestic smelters instead of exporting raw nic...Read More
We wrote a very telling research article on October 24th, 2019. We never published it because we had other articles scheduled to be published over the next few weeks in the queue and because our subscribers get our trade alerts before the general public. At this point, we are sharing that past article as well as some current research for Natural Gas that should be very interesting to you.Pay...Read More
The second biggest gold mine in Europecould be about to make investors rich.It’s a story that began over 2,000 years ago whenthe Romans dug up $16.8 billion in gold in Romania... Using only hammers andbuckets.But now, a little company with a big dreamis coming to unearth the rest. Using modern technology, they’re hoping to capitalize on anestimated $13.3 billion find.Smart investors ar...Read More
The three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange continued to fall over the course of Monday November 11 to end the day's trading down by just under 4% against high turnover, while the rest of the complex similarly closed lower. The nickel futures price closed at $15,565 per tonne on Monday afternoon, its lowest 5pm closing price since August 7. Turnover in nickel was high over the day wi...Read More
Stagnant tin prices could be set to climb after a bridge collapsed on a key route to Alphamin Resources' Bisie tin mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa.The Mauritius-based mining company confirmed this week that the Maiko Bridge at Lubutu - on a key route to the Bisie tin mine in the Walikale territory of DRC - collapsed on October 30, some 53 kilometers sout...Read More