A friend texted me on Monday afternoon, "I'm 174,000 person in line.""For what?!," I responded."To use Maryland's unemployment website," she sent along with this screenshot:At 174,370 in line, there were more than three baseball stadiums full of people waiting ahead of her. And this was just in Maryland. And just on Monday.The Department of Labor now says over 30 million Americans have filed joble...Read More
Thursday is your last day to get $200 off your first-year Canadian Insider Club Ultra membership by redeeming coupon 2020 at checkout. Please note the coupon only works for a Canadian Insider Club Ultra membership. If you encounter problems redeeming the coupon at checkout, contact us and we will replace it for you. This discount offer is a good one as it means your first Ultra year will only cos...Read More
With competition in the global steel markets remaining fierce, Fastmarkets provides an update on the new, progressing and closed trade cases from around the world in April 2020.The case list below includes only updates. For other continuing cases...Read More
The price of containerized ferrous scrap imports into India slumped further this week due to the continued lack of trading under the lockdown conditions in the country, as well as a drop in the global scrap markets, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday May 1.Fastmarkets calculated the steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India, at $259.38 per tonne on Friday, down from $269.13 per...Read More
The pig iron market in the United States strengthened in the week to Friday May 1, with several buyers restocking material, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US, was $295-300 per tonne on Friday, up by $5 from $290-295 per tonne last week.One purchase of Ukraine-origin pig iron was done...Read More
The Turkish deep-sea scrap import market ended the week with a lower-priced deal coming to light on Friday May 1, in line with market expectations for the direction of prices, sources told Fastmarkets.News of the cargo came to light late on Thursday, with a steel mill in the Iskenderun region buying a European cargo comprising 17,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $236 per tonne cfr, and 7...Read More
Demand for CIS-origin billet mainly came from the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) region this week, sources told Fastmarkets Friday May 1.By the end of the week, Fastmarkets had heard of three deals to the region, with the latest being a 50,000-tonne billet cargo sold to a customer in Saudi Arabia at around $360 per tonne cfr (or $335 per tonne fob Black Sea, excluding freight costs...Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort287,38224,65344,448114,902408,531446,732477,632Change from Prior Reporting Period 5,119-8,0393,519-1,90611,6506,7327,130Traders20354715959290159 Small Speculators (C) GoldSeek.com LongShortOpen Interest 54,08423,184500,816 9265287,658 non reportable positionsChange from the pr...Read More
The Coronavirus / covid-19 pandemic is the biggest hoax in the history of the world. Billions of people across the globe have been duped and allowed themselves to be subjected to tyranny because of a spook.As you will learn when you follow the links below, the figures for cases and deaths caused by Covid-19 are largely fraudulent and grossly inflated - the product of distortion, exaggeration and...Read More
By Mike Gleason Precious metals markets enter the month of May with some mixed signals near term. But the long-term picture continues to look constructive. All the metals appear to have put in major bottoms during the panic selling of mid to late March. Barring another wave of virus outbreaks and economic lockdowns, the gradual reopening of state, local, and national economies should star...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold market has backed off here. Not pretty on the chart action on gold..Read More
The monthly alloy surcharges for stainless steel in Europe have decreased for May because of lower alloy component costs, Fastmarkets heard on Friday May 1.Transaction prices for finished stainless steel remained unchanged, meanwhile, following decreases last week that were made in anticipation of the lower May surcharges.Fastmarkets' calculation of the stainless steel cold-rolled sheet, 2mm, grad...Read More
As we learn more about the coronavirus, and all of the numbers that are released by the government, there's more and more that just doesn't add up. Fortunately, Jim Willie, editor of The Hat Trick Letter, joined the show to discuss the discrepancies he's noticed, and what he thinks is really going on. So if you want to know what you're not being told about Coronavirus, click to watch the video now...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Shanghai, New York and Galway on Friday May 1.China China's domestic prices climbed on a more active spot market, with mills restocking ahead of the Labor Day holiday from May 1-5.Production costs for ferro-silicon will increase...Read More
While everyone sits at home with increasing frustration, there's a lot of new attempts of control being imposed on the world, which are frankly quite maddening. And what's worse are all the facts surfacing about what's already happened long before this pandemic was revealed. In this video I'm going to show those facts, along with the newest attempts at getting you to forfeit your rights, including...Read More
When the only journalist in the world who dares tell the truth rots in jail in England, being tortured on behalf of the US for doing his job, something is terribly wrong with our society.Continue...Read More
Be prepared! Sometimes in future, your children or grandchildren will ask you about the current economic slump. They will question: "how was it possible that such a minor pandemic in terms of mortality Continue...Read More
It's game-over for most of the U.S. oil industry. Prices have collapsed and storage is nearly full. The only option for many producers is to shut in their wells. That means no income. Continue...Read More
The company has placed items like burgers, bacon and sausage on "controlled allocation," according to Business Insider. Additionally, the company's distribution centers have been placed on "managed supply".Continue...Read More