Indian steel manufacturers expect the Indian government to trim its support for their exports following an adverse ruling by the World Trade Organization in a subsidy dispute brought by the United States."The [Indian] Ministry of Industry & Commerce was already looking at revamping trade and tax policies, which includes scrapping certain export incentive schemes that have now been termed as s...Read More

In 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 plot...Read More

Is the front-month gamma-weighted SOIR a tradable indicator?Our Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR) measures the amount of put open interest relative to call open interest, using expiration dates within the next three months. A high number for this ratio indicates a lot of puts compared to calls. Another indicator that we use at Schaeffer's is an expiration-specific gamma-weighted SOIR...Read More

Brazil's national mining agency, ANM, has concluded that Vale failed to report anomalies before a deadly disaster breach occurred at a tailings dam in its C??rrego do Feij??o mine in January.ANM published a technical report on Tuesday November 5 in which it said internal documents from Vale showed that the miner was aware of several defects in the tailings dam but did not inform the agency before...Read More

Demand for flat steel products in Turkey remained weak in October because of the decline in global prices, market participants told Fastmarkets on Tuesday, November 5.Nonetheless, they added that local producers have now filled their order books until late December.Local demand was already weak in Turkey in September, and political uncertainty in October led to a further fall in&nbs...Read More

The three-month lead price on the London Metal Exchange was lower at the close of trading on Wednesday November 6, settling at its lowest level since early October, while tin's outright price was the only positive move over the day's trading.Lead's futures price on the LME closed at $2,115 per tonne in the afternoon, its lowest closing price since October 1, while turnover was moderate at just und...Read More

David Becker6 hours ago (Nov 06, 2019 7:02 PM GMT)Depositphotos_263207348_s-2019 (1)Gold prices rebounded ahead of support levels, as final PMI’s from the EU came in better than expected. Gold was hammered on Tuesday as US data continues to show that the last Fed cut could be the last for a while. US yields moved lower, which helped ease the upward pressure on the US dollar which paved the...Read More

The price of steel wire rod in Europe was largely unchanged this week although increases were expected in light of the price rises seen in the Turkish scrap market since the beginning of October, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 6.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel wire rod (mesh-quality), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?430-450 ($477-500) per tonne on Novembe...Read More

Christopher Lewis7 hours ago (Nov 06, 2019 6:13 PM GMT)Gold markets have rallied slightly during the trading session on Wednesday, as we continue to see a lot of volatility around the world. At this point, the central banks look likely to keep their monetary policy rather loose, and that should help gold. Beyond that, we also have a lot of concerns geopolitically, so that of course could put a bit...Read More

Dave KranzlerThe major stock indices - the Dow, SPX and Nasdaq - have wafted up to all-time highs on a cloud of Central Bank printed money. Interestingly, most of the stocks in all three indices are below to well below their all-time highs. Breadth of the move is shockingly thin. Very few stocks are responsible for pushing the indices higher. The Dow's move last Friday, for instance, was...Read More

- Craig Hemke Last week, we wrote about the pending price correction in COMEX gold and silver due to the extreme level of futures contracts issued by the market-making Banks. With price getting smashed thus far this week, it's time to explain again the dynamics of this tried-and-tested price manipulation technique.First of all, understand that the alchemy of " gold price exposure" was created...Read More

Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. Gold continues to consolidate with sideways price action after reaching the $1500-$1550 resistance zone.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge. Investor patience is required when the price arrives at a major support or resistance zone like $1500-$1550.3. The good news is that for the current gold market reaction,...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold in somewhat of the sideways pattern, but the swingline has turned down now -- does the market have legs to it to the downside?Read More

Following a month-long consultation period and several months of pre-consultation research, Fastmarkets will launch a fortnightly price assessment for non-exchange-deliverable equivalent-grade (EQ) copper cathode premiums/discounts starting from Tuesday November 19.The cif Europe and cif China price assessments will support Fastmarkets' current benchmarks in Grade A exchange-deliverable markets.De...Read More

The price of steel rebar in the Southern Europe domestic market narrowed upward this week on higher scrap costs since the beginning of October, with further increases expected in the coming weeks, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 6.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Southern Europe, was ?,?455-465 ($505-516) per tonne on Wednes...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday November 6 that are worth another look.Brazil's national mining agency, ANM, has concluded that Vale failed to report anomalies before a deadly disaster breach occurred at a tailings dam in its C??rrego do Feij??o mine in January.A falling US Midwest aluminium premium, stronger currencies in Asia and sustained higher freight r...Read More

Gold continues to maintain an elevated level because of the fear of trade.Technically, gold is slightly positive for the short term.The set up for gold is similar to 2016.Futures traders are set up like they were in 2016.Gold has been holding up because of a weaker dollar and continued fears about a non-existent recession. In this piece, we update the gold market. Gold has been unable to stay abov...Read More

Most major aluminium producers agree that tackling the carbon intensity of the smelting process is one of the biggest challenges facing their industry. What they cannot agree on is how to deal with the situation, as a lively panel hosted by Fastmarkets during LME Week at the end of October showed. Aluminium smelting is an energy-intensive business and the market is starting to differentiate b...Read More

James Hyerczyk12 hours ago (Nov 06, 2019 1:12 PM GMT)Gold futures are edging higher on Wednesday in a mild attempt to recover from yesterday’s steep sell-off that was fueled by a combination of stronger-than-expected U.S. economic data and the realization by some weaker longs that central banks weren’t going to be aggressively cutting rates as previously expected. A temporary pause i...Read More

The three-month lead price on the London Metal Exchange was lower at the close of trading on Wednesday November 6, settling at its lowest level since early October, while tin's outright price was the only positive move over the day's trading.Lead's futures price on the LME closed at $2,115 per tonne in the afternoon, its lowest closing price since October 1, while turnover was moderate at just und...Read More