This year will be etched in the record books for multiple reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a massive spike in unemployment rates, a slump in global GDP, and falling interest rates, among other things. The markets responded in kind and slumped over 35% in just over a month earlier this year.However, the V-shaped recovery in the last few months has led experts to believe that the stock mark...Read More

The stock market is moving in stark contrast to the economy. Billionaire investor George Soros calls it the liquidity bubble formed by the free money coming from the fiscal stimulus package. This liquidity bubble is driving the stock valuations to new highs. Hence, billionaire investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett are not participating in this stock market bubble.The state of the economy...Read More

Earlier this summer, I’d discussed why Canadians should get in on stocks that were connected to the electric vehicle market. McKinsey, the top management consulting firm, recently discussed the slump for electric vehicle sales in the first quarter of 2020. Sales dropped 25% in Q1 2020, coming after a slower sales year in 2019. Still, this market is well positioned for attractive growth in th...Read More

The race for a COVID vaccine has been on for months. And honestly, it'd be disconcerting if we weren't so desperate.Vaccines typically take years to produce and study, but we've got pharmaceutical companies competing to whip one up like a Labor Day daiquiri. Cracks are already beginning to show. On Tuesday, clinical trials for the University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine have been put on hold by...Read More

Sep 17, 2020 Guest(s): Peter Hug Global Trading Director, Kitco Metals Gold and silver prices have been trading rangebound, but the price patterns suggest that the metals are currently consolidating and are ready to see the next move, said Peter Hug, global trading director of Kitco Metals. "The fact that people are not selling into a market that isn't as frenetic as it was a month or six weeks...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday September 17 that are worth another look.China's domestic stainless steel prices experienced a larger rate of decrease over the week ended Wednesday September 16 on dropping demand, although nickel prices remained strong....Read More

The three-month price of nickel on the London Metal Exchange was slightly higher at the close of trading on Thursday September 17, gathering momentum above the $15,000-per-tonne threshold despite continued selling pressure over the day.Meanwhile, a steady uptick in LME copper futures came at the cost of tighter forward spreads.Nickel's outright price on the LME closed at $15,084 per tonne on Thurs...Read More

A summary of Australian-Chinese miner MMG's production results for the first half year ended June 30, 2020, as well as its full-year production guidance. In brief  MMG's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) was $383.6 million in the first half this year, a drop of 41% from the corresponding period in 2019 due to lower commodity prices and sales volumes resul...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesSep 17, 2020I don’t think most investors understand the extent that the well-led resource companies have cashed up in anticipation of far higher prices for gold and a renewed interest in mining by the general public. The actions of the Federal Reserve and all central banks pouring bales of $100 bills onto a bonfire pretty much guarantee the end of fiat currencies, higher...Read More

The European high- and low-carbon ferro-chrome markets strengthened on Tuesday September 15 due to a slow recovery in demand.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for ferro-chrome high carbon 6-8.5% C, basis 60-70% Cr, max 1.5% Si, delivered Europe, was $0.85-0.97 per lb Cr on Tuesday, tightening from $0.83-0.98 per lb a week earlier."The capacity of users' production lines has been slowly coming b...Read More

Tungsten concentrate and ammonium paratungstate (APT) prices in China were stable on Wednesday September 16 after increased availability of both products in the market prevented prices from extending last week's gains.At the same time, the slowly recovering APT export market has turned quiet once more, with China-based sources reporting fewer inquiries from overseas buyers.Fastmarkets' weekly pric...Read More

Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to report additional intersections of strong radioactivity and initial chemical assays from the on-going summer drilling program at the Hurricane zone. The Hurricane zone is a recent discovery of high-grade uranium mineralization on the Company's 100% owned Larocque East property (the "Property") in the Eastern Athabasca...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday September 17 that are worth another look.China's domestic stainless steel prices experienced a larger rate of decrease over the week ended Wednesday September 16 on dropping demand, although nickel prices remained strong....Read More

The AIM-listed company was forced to shut down its plant on Monday after around 3,000 cubic metres of tailings material leaked into a local river.Read More

China's State Reserve Bureau (SRB) is likely to use a floating price to settle its latest round of cobalt metal stockpiling, according to a market source close to the matter. The SRB sent invitations to a handful of cobalt metal producers in China for a tender on Wednesday September 9; the tender was completed during the morning of Thursday September 17, according to a market source.No concre...Read More

The Turkish steel mills have extended their absence from the deep-sea scrap markets amid weak finished long steel demand in their local market, sources said on Thursday September 17.The country's steelmakers booked seven deep-sea scrap cargoes, totalling around 230,000 tonnes, in the first half of last week before retreating from the market on September 10.The most recent transactions...Read More

The weakness in metals and equities this morning, Thursday September 17, indicates markets were taking the US Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) projections and comments that they will likely keep interest rates on hold through at least 2023 as suggesting there will continue to be tough times ahead in the real economy.Does this highlight the start of a reality check where markets start to focu...Read More

China's State Reserve Bureau (SRB) is likely to use a floating price to settle its latest round of cobalt metal stockpiling, according to a market source close to the matter. The SRB sent invitations to a handful of cobalt metal producers in China for a tender on Wednesday September 9; the tender was completed during the morning of Thursday September 17, according to a market source.No concre...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Mining company Teck Resources Ltd. says it is making another step on its vow to be carbon emission neutral by 2050 by signing a long-term renewable power purchase agreement for its Carmen de Andacollo copper mine in Chile.Under the agreement, the mine will source 72 megawatts (550 gigawatt-hours per year) from AES Gener's renewable portfolio of wind, solar and hydroel...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday September 17 that are worth another look.China's domestic stainless steel prices experienced a larger rate of decrease over the week ended Wednesday September 16 on dropping demand, although nickel prices remained strong....Read More