Turkish steel producers continued to pause their deep-sea cargo purchases because of a public holiday in the country reducing trading activity, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday October 29.Today is a public holiday in Turkey for the Republic Day of Turkey, which has reduced trading activity to zero. No purchases have been heard booked so far this week, with Monday also a half...Read More
A new Singapore Steel Forum will kick off for the first time next year as part of Singapore Iron Ore Week (SIOW) 2020.Fastmarkets will drive the forum together with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Enterprise Singapore as part of an expanded SIOW, which will be held on May 18-21 2020 at Sands Expo & Convention Centre. The Singapore Steel Forum will be held on May 20 and will include global steelma...Read More
The copper market is largely shrugging off the positive price effects of supply constraints and is focusing its attention on the negative consequences on growth of the trade wars, the chief executive officer of Freeport-McMoRan has said.As long as this remains the case, copper prices appear unlikely to strengthen significantly, although a return to a more stable and positive relationship between C...Read More
The London Metal Exchange announced this week that industry members will form a committee to represent the views and interests of lithium stakeholders while the exchange plans the launch of a lithium futures contract.The committee is made up of representatives of major lithium producers and consumers: Jaguar Land Rover, Albemarle Corp, Lithium Corp, Pilbara Minerals, Transamine Trading, BASF, Tian...Read More
TORONTO - Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, issued the following statement today about the Mining Working Group and Meet the Miners Day at Queen's Park:"Today marks the annual Meet the Miners Day at Queen's Park. For 41 years, representatives from the mining industry and the government have come together to acknowledge the vital role of the mining and mineral indus...Read More
October 29, 2019 - Today marks a significant step in the unprecedented First Nations-led Wataynikaneyap (Watay) Power Transmission Project to connect remote First Nation communities to Ontario's power grid.With a projected completion date by the end of 2023, the Watay Power Project will be the largest Indigenous-led infrastructure project in Canada, and most far-reaching First Nations grid connect...Read More
I was a dead man. We were going 130 miles per hour. My date was passed out, head lolling above a cloud-like mauve dress as we launched south on Interstate 87 in the backseat of a Buick Grand National. Empty wine coolers rolled on the floor.It was prom night, and we had left Saratoga in a jovial mood, but things had taken a dark turn as Scot in his dad's Fiero kept edging us faster from the next la...Read More
Export prices for hot-rolled and cold-rolled coil from the Commonwealth of Independent States continued to fall during the week ended Monday October 28, although market sources told Fastmarkets they doubted the market could decline much further. Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel HRC export, fob Black Sea, CIS was $360-375 per tonne on October 21, down from $375-385 per tonne a week ear...Read More
High-Purity Quartz Ltd (HPQ), who is exhibiting and presenting at IMARC 2019, is aiming to be a new entrant into the global high-purity quartz-sand market, with near term plans to join a very limited group of High-Purity quartz-sand producers to supply manufacturers of ultra-High-Purity applications, such as optics, Solar PV wafers and Semiconductor wafers. HPQ Ltd will export its products under a...Read More
A new Singapore Steel Forum will kick off for the first time next year as part of Singapore Iron Ore Week (SIOW) 2020.Fastmarkets will drive the forum together with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Enterprise Singapore as part of an expanded SIOW, which will be held on May 18-21 2020 at Sands Expo & Convention Centre. The Singapore Steel Forum will be held on May 20 and will include global steelma...Read More
Chinese steelmakers kept their export offers for hot-rolled coil unchanged on Tuesday October 29 amid a stable domestic market.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,500-3,520 yuan ($495-498) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Tangshan): 3,500 yuan per tonne, unchangedSteady demand kept domestic prices unchanged during the day.A Shanghai-based trader thinks demand will be sustained for several days...Read More
Import prices for steel billet in the United Arab Emirates increased over the past week, while domestic and import rebar values decreased, market sources said on Tuesday October 29.Domestic prices for rebar for the month were announced by the country's producers on October 21. Both Emirates Steel and Conares Steel kept their prices unchanged.Billet importsOne billet booking was made from Oman at a...Read More
A new Singapore Steel Forum will kick off for the first time next year as part of Singapore Iron Ore Week (SIOW) 2020.Fastmarkets will drive the forum together with the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Enterprise Singapore as part of an expanded SIOW, which will be held on May 18-21 2020 at Sands Expo & Convention Centre. The Singapore Steel Forum will be held on May 20 and will include global steelma...Read More
Clint Siegner Americans hated it when the Federal Reserve handed trillions of dollars to crooked Wall Street banks following the 2008 Financial Crisis. Politicians were confronted about the merits of central banking and bailouts.For the first time in history, college students were chanting "End the Fed" at campaign rallies as Ron Paul took the central bank to task during his presidential campaig...Read More
By: Robert LambourneThe Bank for International Settlements has just published its statement of account for September and it indicates that the bank continues to trade gold swaps. The BIS uses gold swaps and other gold derivatives to gain access to gold held by commercial banks. But recent swaps remain at much-reduced levels compared to the second half of 2018.There is not enough information in t...Read More
Stewart Thomson 1. The GOAU ETF continues to showcase the most impressive technical action in the entire precious metals ETF sector.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge. A bull wedge breakout with a pickup in volume is in play.3. Gold has been reacting negatively ahead of recent FOMC meetings, and that's the case this week.4. The pullb...Read More
By: Ira Epstein Gold is not trending, gold in a stall area. Momentum has flattened out, Gold hit the upper Bollinger band hit and failed, as expected:Read More
To repeat: AAPL is the only stock we need follow closely to know whether a major top looms for the bull market. The logic is simple: Because Apple is the most valuable company in the world, its shares top institutional investors' must-own list. Furthermore, as long as those who make their living throwing Other People's Money at a dozen or so stocks continue to throw the lion's share of it at AAP...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices retreated on Tuesday October 29 due to softening demand from the construction sector. Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,610-3,640 yuan ($511-516) per tonne, down 10 yuan per tonne Northern China (Beijing): 3,580-3,620 yuan per tonne, narrowed downward by 10 yuan per tonneConstruction activity in northeastern China is falling gradually along with the onset of colder weather,...Read More