Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. At McDonald's restaurant, customers can "supersize" their food orders. Can gold supersize its awesome 2019 price action?2. Well, please click here now: https://gracelandjuniors.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019jul23gold1.png 3. The technical action on this gold chart is spectacular!4. Gold has form...Read More
The bull market has been chugging along for more than ten years, so there's little point in pretending we know precisely where or when it will end. However, neither should we ignore the fact that the Dow, having traded as high as 27,399, is mere millimeters from a key 'Hidden Pivot' resistance at 27,463. As a practical matter, because this is a logical place for a top of at least middling impor...Read More
Three things/events/economic data which can affect gold and silver till next week.1. European Central bank meeting tomorrow.2. US GDP numbers on Friday. 3. US-China trade talks. I do not think FOMC meet will have any impact on metals, energies or the US dollar Index. Interest rate cut has been factored in by the market. Gold and silver short-term investors need to c...Read More
Turkey produced 16.994 million tonnes of crude steel in January-June 2019, down 10.14% on the 18.912 million tonnes produced in the first six months of 2018.According to the Turkish Steel Producers Association (T???oeD), the fall in output was largely due to the negative sentiment that has been dominating Turkey's domestic steel market since August 2018 when the country's lira lost significan...Read More
German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp approved investment funds to build a 230,000 tonne per year chromium coating line for packaging steel at its Rasselstein site in Andernach, western Germany, it said late in the week ending on July 19.The new coating line will be a replacement for the current line, following a change in European Union (EU) regulations, with production capacity remaining approximately...Read More
China is imposing anti-dumping duties on imports of stainless steel billet, slab, hot-rolled plate and coil produced in the European Union, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia, the country's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday July 22.The duties will apply for five years beginning on July 23 after a final ruling in an anti-dumping investigation found that the imports caused substantial dama...Read More
Base metals prices traded on the London Metal Exchange continued to capitalize on marginal gains made in the morning session on Wednesday July 24, with the pervading macro optimism and a weaker US dollar overshadowing modest turnover.Nickel rebounded 2.6% to close at $14,545 per tonne, retracing some the significant gains made last week when the three-month contract hit a $15,115-per-tonne high on...Read More
Gold price hits a record 2019 high in multiple currencies.Harte Gold is a new junior gold 'producer' in Ontario, Canada, from their 100%-owned Sugar Zone Property.The Sugar Zone Property has a total indicated and inferred resource of 1.67 million ounces of gold at ~6-8g/t, with large exploration upside.Current consensus analyst price target is C$0.75, representing 212% upside.This article...Read More
The dramatic shift in the dynamics of the lithium market over the past four years has changed business practices and increased demand for price transparency. The dramatic shift in the dynamics of the lithium market over the past four years has changed business practices and increased demand for price transparency. Fueled by anticipated growth in the global battery market and the consequent price s...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' Wednesday July 24 pricing session in Europe:Key drivers The ferro-titanium market has stabilized after a run of losses and while there was one sale around $4.50 per kg and below the current range, it was in isolation, with most sources expecting a stabilizing in the market. The ferro-titanium market is establishing a price floor, with producer supply cited to be in...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday July 24 that are worth another look.While Vedanta cheered over South Africa's recent court ruling against the Zambian government's liquidation of its majority-owned Konkola Copper Mines, Zambian officials rebuked the decision and denied the enforceability of the foreign ruling that determines the future of the country's l...Read More
The dream of building a new world-class copper-gold mine in Pakistan in an area bordering Afghanistan and Iran has been dashed, for now at least. The saga of Tethyan Copper Co's (TCC) efforts to develop the Reko Diq mine found resolution last week with an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) ruling in favor of TCC following a dispute that has rumbled on for years.TCC,...Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSSIf you're looking for a reason why people invest in the metals, then here's not just one reason, but several...Silver Doctors' Half Dollar and SD Bullion's James Anderson were the hosts for today's live-stream, and wow, was it a good stream!Some of the topics discussed in today's live-stream include:T...Read More
The silver market is on the upswing, but consolidation could be in the offing. Here's why...by Clive Maund of Streetwise ReportsThe silver market is on the upswing but consolidation could be in the offing, according technical analyst Clive Maund.Some weeks back we had correctly surmised that gold's gathering strength would rub off on silver and cause it to start catching up, so we bought a range o...Read More
The announcement of this change is expected to cause a sharp acceleration in the rise of precious metals at the end of 2020...by Cyrille Jubert via CyrilleJubert.comAs I announced it at the end of June, after again a touch-down on its very long-term support, silver started its third leg up.Each rising leg is marked by the crossing upward of a Fibonacci's fan, which is an oblique resistance coming...Read More
"At the current price levels, the cost of participation in an upcoming rally can be a rare bargain."by Frank Suess via Global GoldIt looks like the patience of silver investors might finally be rewarded, as the metal's price appears to be gathering momentum in recent weeks. The silver price plummeted to $13/oz in early 2016, a long way down from its peak at $50/oz in 2011. It has since been stuck...Read More
Silver popped nicely, rallying nearly 7.5 % from low to high over the past two weeks, beating gold's 4.8% gain.The gold/silver ratio has dropped a little more than 6 full points in the past week, falling from a high just north of 93 ounces of silver to purchase one ounce of gold, to just under 87.In last week's blog we identified $16.20 per ounce as a key level for silver. That level was t...Read More
The dramatic shift in the dynamics of the lithium market over the past four years has changed business practices and increased demand for price transparency. The dramatic shift in the dynamics of the lithium market over the past four years has changed business practices and increased demand for price transparency. Fueled by anticipated growth in the global battery market and the consequent price s...Read More
China's hot-rolled coil sellers cut their prices on Wednesday July 24 amid weak demand, although some participants believe a rebound could take place in days due to ongoing production curbs in the northern region.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,830-3,850 yuan ($557-559) per tonne, down 50 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,830-3,840 yuan per tonne, down 20 yuan per tonneSpot prices fell...Read More