Turkish rebar prices have decreased slightly over the past week, while demand for material was slow due to uncertainty about the stability of the market, sources said on Thursday March 5.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, exw Turkey, was 3,150-3,180 Turkish lira ($516-521) per tonne on Thursday, down from 3,180-3,230 lira per tonne last week.The domes...Read More

The Turkish long steel export markets have been almost silent over the past week with limited demand in the major outlets, sources said on Thursday March 5.The steel mills in Turkey offered rebar for export at $435-445 per tonne fob on an actual weight basis, while bids for material were heard around $430 per tonne.There were no significant export sales heard.The Turkish market was slow because ma...Read More

Turkish steel mills remained out of deep-sea markets on Thursday March 5, with no new bookings following a standoff between mills and suppliers, sources told Fastmarkets. Turkish steel mills continued to hold off on booking cargoes and sources told Fastmarkets they did not expect to hear any new deals this week. The current stalemate was because US suppliers were unwilling to drop their export pri...Read More

A summary of the financial performance of Brazilian steel and iron-ore producer Companhia Sider??rgica Nacional (CSN) in the fourth-quarter and full-year 2019, as reported on Wednesday March 4.In brief CSN's slab output was significantly lower throughout 2019 while its blast furnace (BF) No3 was idled for revamp work over more than three months until late October. Steel sales volumes were down in...Read More

Craig Hemke, TF MetalsThough we just wrote about this last week, Tuesday's "emergency" fed funds rate cut demands that we write this update. Why? Because the bond market action in the hours since foreshadows even more cuts later this month, and this will have direct implications for gold, silver, and the U.S. dollar.So let's begin with last week's link. If you missed it, that's OK. Here's your c...Read More

Dave Kranzler, Investement Research Dynamic's Mining Stock JournalA few of my subscribers asked me recently about the lethargic action in the miners lately given that the price of gold has started moving higher again. But it helps to step back and look at a longer time-frame. For the last 52 seeks, the HUI has significantly outperformed GLD. I also ran the comps for 6 months, 3 months and 1 mont...Read More

Seaborne iron ore prices rose on Thursday March 5 amid fresh concerns about Brazilian shipment volumes in the current quarter, with the traded price for the benchmark Brazilian low-alumina brand moving up during the day.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $92.57 per...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold is fighting a battle. Momentum is slightly up, but needs to get above $1,654.30 swing line..Read More

Near zero bond yields globally will ensure that sharp corrections in gold will be used to invest for the short term as long as term. Guarded optimism in silver at the moment. One needs to remain on the sidelines till Monday. Clear picture of the spread of corona virus in USA and India will be known by end of next week. USA and India are two big consumers of goods and services. A big global slowd...Read More

Turkish steel billet import prices have decreased over the past week while demand has been low, sources said on Thursday March 5.The Turkish market was slow because market participants wanted to see the outcome of a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 5.This meeting comes after at least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed on Fe...Read More

Prices in the CIS steel billet market softened in the first week of March because of the lack of trading activity.A number of market participants said that some CIS producers were ready to sell billet at $395 per tonne fob Black Sea, although indications of official offers were reported at $400 per tonne fob Black Sea during the week, compared with $400-410 per tonne fob a week earlier.One source...Read More

Is gold a commodity, an investment, or money?The answer is...Gold is a chameleon. It changes in response to the environment. At times, gold behaves like a commodity. Continue...Read More

Prices for imported steel billet in Egypt decreased in the week ended Thursday March 5 with demand still weak, sources told Fastmarkets.Some Egyptian producers had increased their rebar prices on February 26, one day before Fastmarkets' price assessment.And they were still offering rebar on Thursday...Read More

Points that Investors& Executives of Small Mining Companies (Juniors) should consider.1-Small cap gold and base metal stocks differ in several ways from large cap metals and are best approached on a potential value basis. That would be what a company expects to have "in the ground" and/or what the company eventually expects to prove. Successful invest...Read More

The maiden Inferred resource estimate is discussed in this report. Gold Terra Resource Corp. (YGT:TSX.V) [which until February 2020 was known as TerraX Minerals] announced last November an overall maiden Inferred resource of 735,000 gold ounces (oz Au). Incremental Positive: The company announced an overall maiden Inferred resource of 735,000 oz Au at an average grade of 1.79 gpt Au. The global r...Read More

Great Panther Mining has earned an Outperform rating from Noble Capital Markets, while three other firms rate it a Buy. Great Panther Mining Ltd. (GPR:TSX; GPL:NYSE.American) has been a beehive of activity this year. On January 6, the company announced that it entered into a US$11.25 million gold dor? prepayment agreement with Samsung C&T U.K. Ltd.Samsung is advancing the funds for the delivery a...Read More

All three indexes tanked by of 3% or moreStocks took a massive hit Thursday, unable to capitalize on yesterday's furious Super Tuesday rally. Wall Street continues to be gripped by coronavirus fears, as countries around the world extend quarantine and travel restrictions. The Dow lost over 969 points by the close, erasing nearly all of yesterday'sgains. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite took massiv...Read More

Z is outperforming the broadmarketReal estate app Zillow Group (NASDAQ:Z) was testing all-time high territory last week, and has just pulled back to around the $50-$52 level. Now 19% higher year-to-date, the tech name is outperforming the broader market. With this foundation in place, now looks like an opportune time for bulls to circle in. Digging deeper, the majority of analysts still have tepi...Read More

LONDON, 29 February 2020 - Gold price data from BullionVault is quoted today in the Money section of The Times, Britain's best-selling 'quality' paper, as it looks at the virus-led turmoil in financial markets.Amid this week's panic, the price of physical gold in US Dollars "rose to a 7-year high of $1686 an ounce," says The Times, naming online bullion dealer BullionVault as the source of that fi...Read More

LONDON, 29 February 2020 - BullionVault features today in a report on 2020's surging gold price from the Financial Times' award-winning personal finance team at FT Money."The sudden panic at the weekend over coronavirus spreading worldwide has hit the stock market," the full-page article quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault, "and money managers are clearly buying gold to hedge a...Read More