Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ending Friday November 1.China Imported UG2 chrome ore prices dropped by 4% because of lower offers from suppliers. Conditions had been stagnant in recent weeks. Turkish lumpy chrome ore prices softened in response to weak demand. In light of the lower chrome ore offers at the start of the week, Tsingshan Group.....Read More

The company expects its CHESS Depositary Interests to be suspended on December 2 before being delisted on December 4. Hong Kong will remain its home bourse.Read More

The manufacturer and supplier, which produces pumps and water handling and waste management systems for mines and quarries, among a host of other industry segments, posted revenues of $5.2 billion last year."Solid demand and disciplined execution in our largest markets drove margin expansion and delivery on our earnings commitments," said company CEO and president Patrick Decker."Steady revenue gr...Read More

The alumina price on a fob Australia basis rose to $285 per tonne in the week ending Friday November 1, its highest since early October, thanks to continued import demand from China. Fastmarkets calculated the benchmark daily alumina index, fob Australia at $285.18 per tonne on Friday, down only slightly from $285.42 per tonne on the previous day. Before Thursday, it had not traded above $285 per...Read More

Work on the 120,000 tonnes per year project stopped in August after the government suspended the licence to evaluate objections from residents and regional authorities. Locals oppose the project as they fear it will negatively impact crops and water supplies in the region."This ruling not only gives viability to the execution of a project that will have a positive impact for the development of Isl...Read More

Traxys has signed a multi-year deal to sell cobalt metal and hydroxide produced by Norilsk Nickel. Under the terms of the deal, Traxys will commercialize all Norilsk material not sold in the Russian market, Fastmarkets understands. The deal...Read More

Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 335,42358,90865,405176,997478,213577,825602,526 Change from Prior Reporting Period 12,506-4,877-1,7845,66811,52716,3904,866 Traders 20575755651284182 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 65,61740,916643,442 1,52413,04817,914 non report...Read More

The gold miners' stocks have surged in 2019, blasting higher after gold's first bull-market breakout seen in several years. That powerful summer rally left them really overbought, necessitating a correction to rebalance exuberant sentiment. That grinding consolidation lower has set them up nicely for their winter rally, this sector's seasonally-strongest time of the year. These seasonal...Read More

- Dave Kranzler"By sticking to the new orthodoxy of monetary policy and pretending that we have made the banking system safe, we are sleepwalking towards that crisis." - Mervyn King, former head of the Bank of England in a lecture at the IMF's recent annual meetingThe market levitates higher on phony economic data from the Government, Trump tweets, Fed money printing and hedge fund algorithms c...Read More

- Avi GilburtOriginally published on Sat Oct 26 for our ElliottWaveTrader members: While we have the minimum waves now in place to consider that the pullback/correction we have been tracking for the last two months has completed, and the market has clearly held the support we have outlined which we expected to hold during this pullback, questions still remain as to whether we can still see an...Read More

Gold has shrugged off the latest blather from the Fed and looks bound for at least 1536. Some Rick's Picks subscriber caught the move, and I'll show you how. T-Bonds have also caught fire and deserve a look.https://www.rickackerman.com/Read More

By: Ira EpsteinMarkets spooked by impeachment, US-China Trade deal news. Gold is up over $15 for the week as of the close Thursday, on the daily chart, gold stuck in sideways short-term, resistance around swingline - DEC: $1520.90Read More

Government subsidies are a necessary part of early electric vehicle adoption but EVs will have mainstream usage without the need for incentives in the long term, panelists said at the LME Metal Seminar this week. EV adoption has come at a slower pace than previously expected, coinciding with cuts in government subsidies in China. In March this year, Beijing announced a 50-60% reduction in subsidie...Read More

Adam HamiltonArchivesNov 01, 2019 The gold miners' stocks have surged in 2019, blasting higher after gold's first bull-market breakout seen in several years. That powerful summer rally left them really overbought, necessitating a correction to rebalance exuberant sentiment. That grinding consolidation lower has set them up nicely for their winter rally, this sector's seasonally-strongest time of t...Read More

Major holidays in Turkey resulted in thin spot liquidity in the global scrap markets in the week ended Friday November 1, with US exporters seeing limited sales to the major import market.But prices in Asia have surged following those in the rest of the world, with Vietnamese buyers accepting higher prices. Taiwanese demand eased slightly after the flurry of purchasing activity last week. Turkey m...Read More

Austenitic alloy steel scrap prices in the UK domestic market narrowed downward this week amid continued weak demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 1.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for stainless steel scrap 18/8 solids, domestic, delivered merchants UK, was ?750-780 ($970-1,009) per tonne on November 1, down by ?20 per tonne on the high end.Similarly, Fastmarkets' price...Read More

The price of ferrous scrap imported into India has risen for the fourth consecutive week, mirroring a similar trend in nearby Pakistan, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 1Fastmarkets' calculation for the steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India, was $276.57 per tonne on Friday, up from $268.23 per tonne a week earlier.Deals for shredded material into India t...Read More

A summary of the production results of Russian multi-metal miner Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) for the third quarter and first nine months of 2019.In briefNornickel's copper and nickel production both rose by 6% in January-September 2019 from a year earlier owing mainly to productivity improvements.The increase in copper output in the first nine months of the year was primarily the result of the ramp...Read More

Ontario's government is supporting industrial?EUR?steel beam manufacturing in Sault Ste. Marie with an investment in SIS?EUR?Manufacturing Corp., creating 12 new jobs.Today, Ross Romano, MPP for Sault Ste. Marie, announced an investment of $528,394 on behalf of Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines. With this funding, SIS?EUR?Manufacturing Corp. will expand its producti...Read More

Cobalt trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Cobalt trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb on an in-warehouse (in-whs) basis. Delivered prices are netted back. Fastmarkets prices Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for standard-grade cobalt, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbClick here for...Read More