Aug 07, 2019 Guest(s): E.B. Tucker Director, Metalla Royalty & Streaming E.B. Tucker, director of Metalla Royalty & Streaming, is sticking to his $1,500 an ounce gold call. "Gold is a commodity, so you see these cycles that run in the commodity business. They go to highs, they go to lows, and everybody gets scared of the lows, and they get euphoric at the highs. We're definitely at a low, an...Read More

Domestic market activity for hot-rolled coil (HRC) in the EU has remained slow over the past week, with no change in prices, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday August 7.Demand was expected to be almost nil in August due to the seasonal slowdown.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel HRC, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was stable at...Read More

A slight increase in trading activity in northern China led to prices for hot-rolled coil edging up on Wednesday August 7, while those in the eastern region were supported by a trading spurt in the latter half of the day.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,690-3,700 yuan ($524-525) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Tangshan): 3,740 yuan per tonne, up 10 yuan per tonneA Shanghai-based trader said...Read More

Export prices for Chinese plate dipped in the past week on thin end-user demand and a depreciating yuan.Fastmarkets' price assessment for September/October shipments of steel heavy plate export, fob China main port was $505-510 per tonne fob for the week ended Tuesday August 6, down $10 per tonne from a week earlier.Market sources said demand was very thin in the wake of an escalating of tensions...Read More

The Wednesday Market Minute Global stocks weaken as China fixes yuan just inside the $7 mark and Germany posts the steepest year-on-year slump in industrial production since 2009.Asia stocks slide for the eighth consecutive session, while gold hits a fresh six-year peak and Treasury bonds rally, as investors reprice risk in the face of weakening economic growth.U.S. 10-year Treasury yields fall...Read More

In our latest edition of Canadian Insider Insights, we suggest that if crude oil can hang in there despite the trade war heating up, Canadian stocks would likely benefit from inflationary forces, driven by a rush of global central bank easing. Our broadcast of the week focuses on the latest trade war tariff twist while the insider of the week is from our top ranked stock in this month's INK Edge...Read More

Domestic prices for hollow steel sections in both Northern and Southern Europe were flat this week with market activity paused for the summer, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday August 7.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel sections (medium), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?615-630 ($689-706) per tonne on Wednesday, flat week on week.Market participants reported very low levels o...Read More

The price of rebar produced and delivered in Northern Europe has remained stable over the past seven days because of limited summertime demand, sources said on Wednesday August 7.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?500-520 ($560-583) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged since July 10.The market was very slow because of ho...Read More

The prices for domestic mesh-quality wire rod in both Northern Europe and Southern Europe were unchanged over the past week due to the summer slowdown, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday August 7.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel wire rod (mesh-quality), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?495-500 ($555-560) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged week on week.Many market partici...Read More

Two former employees of Gerald Group have filed a lawsuit in the United States alleging wrongdoing and misconduct by the commodity trading company's senior management - accusations that Gerald denies.Guoliang Zhao and Fabio Calia allege in the lawsuit that a share-dilution scheme was created that allowed senior management to misappropriate almost $300 million in shareholder value from Metals Tradi...Read More

Cargill has closed its base metals risk management business with the departure of staff across the United States, including Minneapolis-based Federico Stiegwardt, global head of the unit. Other departures include Cesar Canali and Justin King in New York, Cart Bechtel in Chicago, and associated support teams, people familiar with the matter told Fastmarkets. David Arteaga had already indicated to C...Read More

Seaborne iron ore prices continued to fall on Wednesday August 7 amid very limited buying interest among steel mills.Fastmarkets' index for iron ore 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $93.31 per tonne, down $4.24 per tonne.Fastmarkets' index for iron ore 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines, cfr Qingdao: $91.81 per tonne, down $4.24 per tonne.Fastmarkets' index for iron ore 62% Fe low alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $9...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Over a weekend in April six years ago, without any corresponding news, the gold price was smashed out of the blue for nearly $200. For months before the smash analysts often said that China had put a floor under the gold price, buying whatever it could to hedge its U.S. dollar exposure without pushing gold's price up too much.That analysis made sense, since, with its...Read More

Stefan GleasonThe world is in the midst of one of the strangest asset bubbles of all time. Instead of being fueled by the hope of bigger and bigger gains, it is being driven by a resignation to incurring lower and lower... and ultimately negative, yields on capital.This summer, the global inventory of bonds yielding less than zero reached a record $13 trillion.Negative yielding instruments are c...Read More

Say what you will about last week, it certainly wasn't dull. The Federal Reserve, seemingly capitulating to President Donald Trump and Wall Street, became just the latest central bank to cut interest rates. Meanwhile, the president escalated the trade war even further, announcing that additional tariffs would be imposed on goods coming into the U.S. from China after another round of trade talks...Read More

David HaggithOn June 12, I wrote,The market is moving into waiting mode as the Fed's next FOMC meeting where they have the opportunity to live up to the rate-cutting hopes they've raised come next week. As it does, it is forming that topping pattern that keeps repeating at this level."Frothy Bubbles Make Me Whine" Now you can easily see in the chart below that certainly fits what happened with...Read More

Click to enlarge chartA Pittance for GeniusThe late John Scarne, one of the world great experts on gambling, once wrote a treatise explaining why you can't win at three-card monte. That's the game where a grifter lays three playing cards on a makeshift table, instructing you to follow the queen. He turns them face-down, flipping the queen over now and then to make it easier for you to keep tra...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold's 18-DMA now above $1,440+ Read More

Colorado Springs, CO, Aug. 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") today announced the timing of its second quarter earnings conference call scheduled for Wednesday, August 7, 2019. Gold Resource Corporation is a gold and silver producer, developer and explorer with operations in Oaxaca, Mexico and Nevada, USA. The Co...Read More

The price paid for steel billet exported from Iran weakened in the first week of August following the drop in the global iron ore market.Iranian producers were offering billet scheduled for October shipment at $400-405 per tonne fob Iranian ports, sources told Fastmarkets, but this price was rejected by customers in the major sales outlets in Asia and the Middle East."The slump in iron ore prices...Read More