By: Rick Ackerman, Rick's PicksI like gold here, but I'd like it even more a somewhat lower levels. How much lower? Here are two charts to judge, including one in GLD for those of you who don't trade futures.www.RickAckerman.comRead More

Indian local secondary steel billet prices rose by 400 rupees ($6) per tonne over the past week after a rise in finished long product prices and in expectation of production cuts by billet manufacturers, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday October 18.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet domestic, ex-works India, was up by 400 rupees per tonne to 26,600-26,800 rupees per tonne...Read More

Import prices for steel billet and rebar in the United Arab Emirates narrowed over the past week, with domestic rebar prices falling due to a lack of demand, sources said on Tuesday October 15. New domestic prices for rebar for the month were announced by the country's producers on September 26. Both Emirates Steel and Conares reduced their prices. Billet imports Billet bookings were made from Oma...Read More

"The smoke is coming from the REPO market because it's concealing infinite QE. They have to go to infinite QE or the system breaks," so says Jim Willie who also warns that the Dutch Central Banks says GOLD will be the only fix after the collapse. Join us for this gripping look at what's really going on behind the scenes.Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasti...Read More

Eric Sprott discusses the ongoing bank liquidity crisis and the Fed's renewed QE program. He also answers listener questions regarding the ETFs and the mining shares.Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2...Read More

Harry Dent wraps up this week with an economic forecast showing how history is set to repeat itself in the form of an impeachment. Expect to see one last cresting wave before the market's downturn, he says. Why down & not up? Two words: Bitcoin and politics. Harry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, new venture investor, noted speaker, bestselling author, and the founder and senior editor at Dent Re...Read More

David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and he is the author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America...Read More

Senator Rand Paul joins today's Ron Paul Liberty Report to discuss Washington's war on peace and freedom and his new book, "The Case Against Socialism."Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Revolution: A Manifesto and End The Fed. An unwavering defender o...Read More

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Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWeek, Time...Read More

Domestic rebar prices in Poland have been stable over the past week following a recovery and later stabilization of international scrap prices, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday October 18.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, exw Poland, was 1,960-2,000 zloty ($508-518) per tonne on October 18, unchanged over the week.The assessment reflected the lates...Read More

China's third-quarter economic growth weakened more than expected and to its slowest pace in almost thirty years as the trade war hit factory production particularly hard. Continue...Read More

With gold prices having climbed higher this year, investors have flocked to senior producers instead of the juniors, favoring steady cash flow over speculation and this trend may shape miners' priorities going forward, this according to Joe Mazumdar, co-editor, Exploration Insights."I think the majors have changed mindsight thinking that it's not about production profile, it's about generating fre...Read More

Global scrap prices in all the major markets recovered during the working week ended Friday October 18, boosted by lower material availability and rising Turkish import prices. Turkish import prices up as mills resume November buying US export prices up on bulk sales to Turkey Taiwan import prices up on reduced supply, Vietnam import prices stable Indian import prices up in line with Turkish marke...Read More

John Newell of Fieldhouse Capital Management explores the investment opportunities presented by this project generator in a district rich with historic mine strikes. If the adage in the mining business is "that the best place to find a mine is next to an old mine," then by extension, the best place to explore for gold is next to a successful exploration play, and GoldON Resources Ltd. (GLD:TSX.V)...Read More

The production numbers are reviewed in a BMO Capital Markets report. In an Oct. 15 research note, BMO Capital Markets analyst Andrew Mikitchook reported that Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd.'s (WDO:TSX) Q3/19 production was a beat and management raised full-year production guidance. "Eagle continues to outperform, delivering strong cash flows," the analyst added, referring to the company's Ontario mine. D...Read More

Pig iron import prices in the United States rebounded during the week ended Friday October 18, but more as a result of lower material availability than better demand.Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US, was $300-310 per tonne on October 18, up from $290-300 per tonne a week before."Demand in the US is recovering and we see that some market participants who ar...Read More

The inter-merchant spot market for UK-origin light iron scrap was steady in the week ended Friday October 18, extending a run of stability into a third week amid a recovery in European steel scrap export prices.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK, was ?60-80 ($77-102) per tonne on Friday. The market is around where it was when...Read More

* Lead hits 15-month peak, zinc strongest since end-July * GRAPHIC-2019 asset returns: (Updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Copper prices rose on Fridayafter positive Chinese data on property and infrastructuregrowth, while zinc and lead hit multi-month highs as investorsworried about shortages.Industrial metals prices were volatile after China'seconomic growth slo...Read More

Prices in Southeast Asia's steel billet market climbed during the week ended Friday October 18 because of higher scrap prices in the bellwether Turkish market and a closing arbitrage window for billet imports into China.Chinese buyers were reported to have booked two cargoes involving at least 50,000 tonnes of Malaysia- and India-origin billet at $395-400 per tonne cfr China, while another transac...Read More