Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday October 21 that are worth another look.Brazilian apparent steel consumption was down by 6.4% in September, compared with the corresponding month in 2018, with demand retreating for both domestic and imported materials, national industry association Instituto A??o Brasil said on Thursday October 17.Estimated global primary alumini...Read More
Cold heading quality (CHQ) and high-carbon wire rod prices in the United States have again been dented by lower ferrous scrap costs and ongoing soft demand, Fastmarkets has learned.Fastmarkets' assessment for steel wire rod cold-heading quality, ddp was at $35.50 per hundredweight ($710 per short ton) on Friday October 18, down by 7.8% from $38.50 per cwt one month earlier and off by 22....Read More
Brazilian import volumes of flat steel products dipped by 22.51% in September 2019 while long steel imports almost doubled, soaring by 96.86%, according to figures from the country's economy ministry.Imports of hot-rolled coil (HRC) from China were only 619 tonnes last month, compared with 15,589 tonnes a year before.Meanwhile, China exported only 2,827 tonnes of cold-rolled coil (CRC) to Brazil,...Read More
Clive MaundThe normal and natural business cycle where periods of growth were punctuated by healthy recessions has been all but eliminated by government and Central Bank interference. The recessionary phases which saw bearmarkets and retrenchment were a part of the cycle that is essential for the maintenance of a healthy economy, because it involved the correction of excess and the elimination o...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 3.26 percent as its one-week lease rate reached the highest since January, indicating physical supplies are tight. Gold traders and analysts in the weekly Bloomberg survey were mostly neutral on the metal's price outlook as the market awaits the upcoming Fed meeting. Gold did advance on Wednesday after an unexpected drop in U.S. reta...Read More
There is still a chance of Brexit by 31st October. This is the reason why cable has not crashed and gold has not zoomed. US-China trade talks will be closely watched as the month progresses. Crude oil and industrial metals will be very volatile. IMF has also said that gold and silver are hedges against inflation. After a long time, silver has been invoked as an inflation hedge. Invest in silver...Read More
Turkish steel producers skipped the first working day of the week, with no deep-sea bookings concluded and prices steady, sources said on Monday October 21.As a result of lack of fresh trades, the daily scrap indices remained flat at the beginning of the week.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), Northern Europe origin, cfr Turkey, was...Read More
Danielle DiMartino Booth of Quill Intelligence speaks at the Stansberry 2019 Conference in Las Vegas on October 8th.Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider'...Read More
Bill Holter explains why he is convinced there will eventually be a failure to deliver in the futures markets which will trigger a run on gold and silver... and if that happens, inventory would completely dry up and become unavailable. Holter also describes the scary amount of credit that exists in all facets of the economy and the credit crisis that could ensue due to a monetary hiccup.Bill Holte...Read More
"I was just a human recording machine paid by the government to go into people's lives and befriend them and find out what they were thinking."Continue...Read More
A videographer captured footage of a clean-shaven Julian Assange being driven through the streets of London after his court hearing on Monday.Continue...Read More
Bob Moriarty has a very narrow time frame for when the stock/debt bubble will blow up: two weeks. Continue...Read More
Harry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, new venture investor, noted speaker, bestselling author, and the founder and senior editor at Dent Research, where he dedicates himself to identifying and studying demographic, technological, and geopolitical trends. He has a free daily newsletter at www.harrydent.com called "Survive and Prosper." Mr. Dent accurately predicted Japan's collapse in 1989, the d...Read More
How cash-burn machines power the real economy, and what happens to that economy when investors refuse to have more of their cash burned.Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked i...Read More
"Equity and corporate bonds in the U.S. have so far shrugged off the worrying signs for the global economy coming from lower oil prices. But we suspect that Continue...Read More
"Despite the fact that bank balance sheets are quite strong, I think you'll see more moments like this going forward." Continue...Read More
I am more and more convinced the Debt Markets are about to blow up. It will start with a small wobble. Perhaps a small hint that anticipated global recession isn't/won't be so bad, or Continue...Read More
Turkish domestic scrap prices increased up over the past week in response to rising imported scrap values, sources said on Monday October 21.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap, auto bundle scrap, domestic, delivered Turkey, was TRY1,380-1,505 ($239-261) per tonne on Monday, up from the TRY1,300-1,430 per tonne of last week.The upturn in the assessment came following rising b...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices continued to retreat on Monday October 21 to just above $85 per tonne cfr China amid pessimism about prices and margins.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $85.40 per tonne, down by $0.96 per tonne.62% Fe Pilbara Blend fines, cfr Qingdao: $85.05 per tonne, down by $0.35 per tonne.62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $84.24 per tonne, down by $0.69 per...Read More
Sprott made the purchase through a private agreement. Metallic Minerals Corp. (MMG:TSX.V; MMNGF:OTCMKTS) announced in a news release that Eric Sprott, through his corporation 2176423 Ontario Ltd., purchased 12,500,000 units of the Canadian precious metals explorer for $1.95 million. The price per unit was $0.156.Each unit has one common share and one-half of a one common share purchase warrant of...Read More