While the markets have moved higher this week, there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding investors. The V-shaped recovery since March has surprised Bay Street experts who think the market is not in sync with the economy, as Canada’s unemployment rates continue to remain high amid sluggish consumer demand.Warren Buffett-owned Berkshire Hathaway recently published its 13F filings, and it was q...Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a terrible toll. In many countries, cases continue to rise. Everyone, including the stock market, is hoping for a quick vaccine — our best chance at a return to normalcy.But the future is still uncertain. A vaccine may not arrive for years. If one is discovered this week, it could take many months to secure approvals, scale manufacturing capabilities, and dist...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 11 that are worth another look.Rio Tinto chief executive officer Jean-Sebastien Jacques and iron ore head Chris Salisbury are to step down following criticism over the miner's destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.The...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 11 that are worth another look.Rio Tinto chief executive officer Jean-Sebastien Jacques and iron ore head Chris Salisbury are to step down following criticism over the miner's destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.The...Read More

The company said on Friday its board had approved a payment of 2.4075 reias per share, being 1.4102 per share in the form of dividends and 0.9973 per share in the form of interest on capital.The interim dividend was ahead of expectations and implied an 8% yield on an annualised basis, BMO analyst Edward Sterck reportedly told Bloomberg.Vale had flagged a resumption of dividends mid-year."I think i...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 11 that are worth another look.Rio Tinto chief executive officer Jean-Sebastien Jacques and iron ore head Chris Salisbury are to step down following criticism over the miner's destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.The...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 11 that are worth another look.Rio Tinto chief executive officer Jean-Sebastien Jacques and iron ore head Chris Salisbury are to step down following criticism over the miner's destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.The...Read More

We have to keep our eyes on the biggereconomic cycle. It helps in maintaining a proper perspective, and putting moreemphasis on the bigger prize rather than the day to day movements.The historical relationship between silverand the stock market provides great insight as to where we are currently inthis cycle. Traditionally, the best part of silver rallies come after asignificant Dow peak.From prev...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 11 that are worth another look.Rio Tinto chief executive officer Jean-Sebastien Jacques and iron ore head Chris Salisbury are to step down following criticism over the miner's destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.The...Read More

The U.S. stock market plunged last week. Will gold follow suit?Last week, the U.S. stock market has seen strong selling activity. The S&P 500 Index has declined about 7 percent from its peak, while the Nasdaq Composite Index plunged more than 10 percent (entering a correction territory), below 11,000, as the chart below shows. It was the tech sector’s worst drop since the end of March, i...Read More

Inmid-march, just as the coronavirus was gaining momentum, the price of goldbegan to rise.  After trading sidewaysfrom 2015 to 2019, gold rose from a low of $1,471 in mid-March to $2,069 onAugust 6th, a spectacular 40% rise in five months.Duringthat same period, silver rose from $11.94 to $29.14 on August 6th,an even more spectacular 114% increase. Threedays later, on August 9th, as gold and...Read More

Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable talks with Andy Schectman of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments about macroeconomic policy and its effect on precious metals prices.Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Andy Schectman, the president of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments. Let's begin today's discussion with gold, which has recently surpassed its all-time high since...Read More

Russia's Severstal is running a modernization program at its Cherepovets steelmaking facility, which - though it may lead to short-term production cuts - will help it raise its annual steel output by 1 million tonnes by 2023.Several sources have reported that the major mill had scheduled a two-week maintenance for its 2-million-tonnes-per-year hot-rolling mill in October. They estimated that this...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 11 that are worth another look.Rio Tinto chief executive officer Jean-Sebastien Jacques and iron ore head Chris Salisbury are to step down following criticism over the miner's destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.The...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday September 11 that are worth another look.Rio Tinto chief executive officer Jean-Sebastien Jacques and iron ore head Chris Salisbury are to step down following criticism over the miner's destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.The...Read More

Plans for a London Metal Exchange spot trading platform have sparked intense debate within the aluminium industry. But opponents and supporters don't necessarily fall into the camps that one might expect. For starters, a decision by the LME not to change its futures contract, establish a new green aluminium contract or set thresholds to define what constitutes low-carbon metal is proving key in st...Read More

Sometimes it is better to let a situation speak for itself. Alcoa, Rio Tinto Aluminium, Novelis, Constellium, Arconic, Kaiser Aluminum, Tri-Arrows Aluminum, American Metal Chemical Corp, Hydro Extrusion North America, JW Aluminum, Real Alloy, Reynolds Consumer Products, Scepter, Silberline Manufacturing Co, Smelter Service Corp and Wagstaff. The US Aluminum Association, which represents more than...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of base metals analysts are ready to view.Aluminium: SHFE tailwind for LME pricesAs we are entering the traditional strong demand season, we expect Chinese aluminium demand to show further recovery, and we expect demand from existing end-user sectors, new infrastructure projects and the export sector to show some increases. As a result, we believe that S...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of base metals analysts are ready to view, including an upgrade to our aluminium price forecasts.Aluminium: Price forecasts raisedWe correctly expected the macro reflationary theme to raise the prices for all base metals but, with it being the base metal with by far the weakest fundamentals, we had expected the price of aluminium to underperform relative...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.These include an increase in our copper mine disruption estimates, upgrades to our production outlook for Indonesian nickel pig iron (NPI), a smaller refined zinc surplus, and an upgrade to our zinc price forecasts.Aluminium: Big disconnect between price and fundamentalsAluminium has extended its uptrend on the London Metal...Read More