With competition in the global steel markets still fierce, Fastmarkets provides an update on the new, progressing and closed trade cases from around the world in October 2019.The case list below includes only updates. For other continuing cases,...Read More

A summary of the financial results of German metals distributor Kl??ckner & Co for the third quarter of 2019.Kl??ckner & Co attributed a significant year-on-year decrease in operating income to low steel prices and weak demand,Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) ?,?26 million, down from ?,?59 million in...Read More

Turkish steel mills returned to the deep-sea markets on Monday November 4, booking several cargoes from different origins and pushing prices up further, sources told Fastmarkets.The three newly booked cargoes end a week-long quiet period since the previous booking, all with a very similar composition and pricing. Two of the cargoes were of US origin. The first, booked by a steel mill in...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAIn our most recent editorial we concluded by observing a few positives in the gold and silver stocks. W concluded with: "Their performance over the weeks ahead could give us an early hint as to how much longer the correction will last."Fast forward another week and a few positives has morphed into a handful of positives. First let's look at GDX. In the chart below we p...Read More

StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 2.61 percent, followed closely by palladium, up 2.39 percent. Both platinum and palladium experienced strong demand as hedge funds pushed their net-long positions to five and three-week highs, respectively. Gold traders and analysts were mostly bullish in the weekly Bloomberg survey due to renewed concerns over a trade deal between...Read More

RambusI've been holding off on writing this Weekend Report for the US stock markets until I got just a little more confirmation that the next impulse move higher is underway. Last weeks price action is strongly suggesting that the nearly 2 year consolidation phase is drawing to a close. Lets say I'm seeing some green shoots sprouting up in many different areas of the markets.Most investors rely...Read More

What are we to make of Wall Street's exuberance on Friday over news concerning a U.S. economic expansion that refuses to die? Employers are hiring, consumers are spending and business is humming despite a dramatic economic slowdown in Asia, Europe, South America and elsewhere. Perhaps America really is an economic island, one blessed with unstinting support from a central bank that has finally s...Read More

Turkish domestic auto bundle scrap prices have increased again over the past week, in line with rises in imported scrap values, sources said on Monday November 4.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap, auto bundle scrap, domestic, delivered Turkey, was TRY1,400-1,555 ($243-269) per tonne on Monday, narrowing upward from TRY1,385-1,555 per tonne last week.Four steel mills have raised...Read More

AS Mauskar and N Bhavsar of Bank Muscat led the base metals leaderboard again in the Apex third-quarter 2019 contest, with an accuracy rating of 96.9%, while UBS' Glyn Lawcock was top of the precious metals table with a rating of 97.6%. For steel raw materials, Fastmarkets was at the top of the leaderboard at 90.6% accuracy. Click on the image below to download the full report. Second on the base...Read More

Ukraine's sole flat steel producer Metinvest significantly increased slab sales in the third quarter of 2019, helped by the commissioning of a new continuous casting machine at its Illych Iron & Steel Works earlier this year. Slab sales to third parties soared by 50,87% year on year, to 519,000 tonnes, compared with 344,000 tonnes in July-September 2018, the company said on November 1.The Illych w...Read More

Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.c...Yra Harris is a trader with over 32 years of experience in all areas of commodity trading, with broad expertise in cash currency markets. He has a proven track record of successful trading through combination of technical work and fundamental analysis of global trends; historically based analysis on global hot money flows....Read More

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The economic backdrop for Canada, already grim, is now looking even poorer under the new minority Liberal government, led by a re-elected Justin Trudeau, says Kevin O'Leary, chairman of O'Shares ETFs and star of the hit show Shark Tank."What is the definition of leadership if it isn't to unite a country? Here's a guy that's so poor in executional skills, in strategic skills, in any kind of vision...Read More

"President Trump made the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement because of the unfair economic burden imposed on American workers, businesses, and taxpayers by U.S. pledges made Continue...Read More

Attorney General William Barr recently sent a memo to law enforcement officials announcing a new federal initiative that would use techniques and tools developed in the war on terror, such as mass surveillance, to identify potential mass shooters. Those so identified would be targets of early interventions, which would include the disregarding of Second Amendment rights, as well as the imposing of...Read More

"You have record levels of liquidity flowing into the U.S. stock market. There's simply no way stocks can not go up under such amounts of serious support."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 S...Read More

Whose bets are getting bailed out by the Fed's repos & Treasury bill purchases?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 in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manag...Read More

By the way, Chicago is not "headed" for insolvency, it's already there, but it is just not recognized yet.Continue...Read More

If it seems like it was just over a month ago that the repo market suddenly suffered its biggest cardiac arrest since the financial crisis, when overnight repo rates exploded fromContinue...Read More

The hedge fund manager agreed to a lengthy interview with CNBC. It was wide-ranging and pushed the billionaire to tears.Continue...Read More