The three-month price of zinc on the London Metal Exchange continued to slide at the close of trading on Wednesday August 14, slipping below the support level at $2,300 per tonne amid a 2.8% selloff, while tin futures held on to gains above the $17,000 per tonne threshold.Volumes traded over the day were moderately low, with copper's 13,234 lots topping the complex, while 11,200 lots of aluminium,...Read More

In the United States, the nickel 4x4 cut cathode premium weakened on the high end while nickel briquette premiums held their wide range, European market players eyed the forward curve and Chinese players maintained focus on the import window. US 4x4 nickel cut cathodes respond to falls from cheaper nickel forms European premiums steady but backwardation may signal a future sell-off Chinese premium...Read More

A series of press reports relating to the changes in Indonesia's nickel ore export ban policy amid volatile nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange has left market participants baffled, Fastmarkets understands.The latest news regarding Indonesian nickel exports claims that Indonesia's President Joko Widodo will make the final decision on whether the country will bring an export ban on mineral o...Read More

An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More

Vancouver, BC - FinCanna Capital Corp. (CSE:CALI) (OTCQB:FNNZF) (the "Company" or "FinCanna") a royalty company for the U.S. licensed cannabis industry, is pleased to announce that it's portfolio company ezGreen Compliance has received endorsement from Dr. Francisco A. Ward D.O., Co-Chairman of the Maryland State Medical Society, medical cannabis task force, for its Point of Sale (POS) solution...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee") has announced the appointment of John Sexton Abrams as President and CEO, effective immediately.Mr. Abrams' previous leadership successes range from creating Redbox, a non-stop revenue-producing asset for McDonald's Corporation (MCD:NASDAQ) that sold to Coinstar for US$200 million, and the separation of various...Read More

The president said concessions were not obtained to produce but to financially speculate.Read More

Montr?(C)al, QC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM | OTCQX: SYATF) (the "Company" or "Siyata") is pleased to announce it has completed network approval of the Company's flagship Uniden(R) UV350 in-vehicle phablet with an additional Tier 1 cellular carrier in Canada and anticipates commercial launch in Q3, adding to its growing list of nationwide cellular carrier partnerships in North America...Read More

Steel mills in Turkey have remained out of the deep-sea scrap markets so far this week with trading limited by the Eid al-Adha religious holiday in the country, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday August 14.The Turkish market and those in other Middle Eastern territories will be closed until August 15 for Eid al-Adha; no new deals for cargoes were expected to be heard before then.As a...Read More

Craig HemkeAs global interest plummets to historically negative levels and as the U.S. bond market reveals a deeply inverted yield curve it's time again to assess what all of this means for the precious metals investor.Just yesterday, a fellow on CNBC remarked that "no one had seen this coming". By "this", he meant a sharp rally in both gold and bonds. Oh really? We write these articles for Spro...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold still up on the week. This pullback may not have been a cap on the gold rally. Was this a one day event?Read More

Trump and his delay of additional trade tariff will not have any impact on gold and silver. Yesterday's fall was just an excuse to book some profit. Long term bullish factors such as de-dollarization, central bank buying and interest rate cut trend is here to stay. Even corrections up to $1370 (if any) will be a part of the bullish trend. Silver will rise. I do not foresee it falling below $158...Read More

Trading volumes on the London Metal Exchange declined by 6% in the first half of 2019, parent company Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEX) said in its own half-year results announcement.HKEX said the chargeable average daily volume of contracts traded on the LME was 619,000 lots in the first six months of the year, compared with 659,000 lots during the same period...Read More

Alita Resources, formerly known as Alliance Mineral Assets and listed on the Australian and Singaporean securities exchanges, has suspended the trading of its securities as of Wednesday August 14 on the lower lithium prices. The company will be discussing its debt situation with lenders while negotiating with its spodumene offtake partners in the following weeks, Fastmarkets has learned. Oversuppl...Read More

A previous version of this column included an incorrect unit of measure for copper. This story has been corrected. AFP/Getty Images Gold futures ended lower on Tuesday, falling sharply from their highest intraday levels in more than six years, after the U.S. announced that it would delay tariffs on some Chinese goods and scheduled further talks in an effort to resolve the trade dispute between th...Read More

The Wednesday Market Minute Global stocks turn lower, fading last night's rally on Wall Street, after a trio of weak economic data readings from China and the potential for recession in Germany.China's industrial output slumps 4.8% in July, for the weakest reading in 17 years, while Germany's economy contracts 0.1% over the second quarter amid a collapse in exports linked to the U.S.-China trade...Read More

Export prices for Chinese cold-rolled coil and hot-dipped galvanized coil dropped over the past week, largely due to limited buying interest arising from heightened trade tensions between China and the United States, market sources told Fastmarkets.The Chinese currency passed the 7-yuan per $1 threshold earlier this month after US president Donald Trump announced plans to impose 10% duties on...Read More

China's hot-rolled coil sellers raised prices on Wednesday August 14 amid gains in the country's financial markets after the United States took $156 billion worth of Chinese goods out of a list of items that is to start incurring a new 10% import tariff next month.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,720-3,730 yuan ($527-528) per tonne, up 20 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,720-3,730 yuan...Read More

Chinese output of hot metal, crude steel and finished steel all fell on a month-on-month basis in July amid weakening demand and steelmaking restrictions in the country's production hub in northern China. Demand in China's domestic market weakened last month amid bad weather - heavy rain in some regions and sweltering heat in most of the country - which was a major contributing factor for July's l...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday August 14 that are worth another look.A series of press reports relating to the changes in Indonesia's nickel ore export ban policy amid volatile nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange has left market participants baffled, Fastmarkets understands.China announced a third round of copper scrap import quotas on August 14, all...Read More