The inter-merchant spot price for light iron scrap in the UK has stabilized over the past week after falling by more than 37% between March 13 and March 27, as the market pauses ahead of monthly delivery settlements to consumers for April.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK, was unchanged at ?45-55 ($56-68) per tonne on...Read More
Fastmarkets' copper concentrates treatment charges and refining charge (TC/RC) index moved up to $65.70 per tonne and 6.57 cents per lb this week, underpinned by a handful of deals reported in the high $60s per tonne. Traders are cautious about offering tonnages to the spot market in anticipation of supply uncertainties from South America. Notably, the counterparty spread between TC purchase level...Read More
As flagged by MNN when Bellevue raised A$26.5 million last week, BlackRock was a cornerstone investor to that placement.Read More
The price of ferrous scrap imported into India continued to dip this week following a substantial drop last week when the country implemented a 21-day nationwide lockdown, bringing trade to a halt, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday April 3.Fastmarkets calculated the steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India, at $243.49 per tonne on Friday, down from $247.00 per tonne one week p...Read More
Markets are mixed and on average weaker this morning, Friday April 3, after the rally on Thursday following a 20% rise in oil prices faded. United States President Donald Trump seemed to distract the market after the dreadful US unemployment claims data on Thursday, by talking of a potential oil deal that would see 10-15 million barrels per day cut, but traders are skeptical after Russia denied th...Read More
Demand for lithium chemicals will not recover before mid-2021 due to the added headwinds caused by the global spread of the Covid-19 epidemic to an already oversupplied market, SCB's battery raw materials broker said.During a virtual lithium market presentation hosted by investment bank Morgan Stanley on Friday April 3, SCB's Martim Facada said the lithium market will remain in a bearish price env...Read More
Today is Thursday, April 2, 2020, and this is your daily gold market update. Let's look at the latest price of gold, value of the dollar, gold/silver ratio, Commitment of Traders data, and exchange-traded fund (ETF) prices to get a sense of how the yellow metal is faring today.Gold PriceThe price of one troy ounce of gold in U.S. dollars today is $1,626.25. It's up 0.77% from yesterday and up 26.0...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
Today is Thursday, April 2, 2020, and this is your daily energy stocks roundup. Today we're looking at the valuations of NACCO Industries (NYSE: NC), Parsley Energy (NYSE: PE), and Ovintiv (NYSE: OVV).NACCO Industries (NYSE: NC)NACCO Industries (NYSE: NC) is a $183.83 million company today with a one-year return of -32.72%. Let's look at its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, its enterprise-value-to-f...Read More
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Waning demand for lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) batteries - as a result of slowing consumption of consumer electronic products amid the Covid-19 pandemic - has weighed on upstream cobalt tetroxide prices since early March, sources said.Fastmarkets' assessment for cobalt tetroxide 72.6% Co min, delivered China dropped to 170,000-180,000 yuan ($23,970-25,380) per tonne on Friday April 3, down 2% from 1...Read More
Fears of a global recession stemming from the coronavirus panic, coupled with a dip in commodity prices, sparked an overwhelming flight to gold and safe-haven assets.Investors looking to buy physical gold right now will find themselves in a market of unusually low inventories and extraordinarily high prices.Today, we'll briefly look at the gold bullion market, and I'll show you the most affordable...Read More
ArcelorMittal's Brazilian unit has clarified information about the shutdown of its No3 blast furnace in Tubar??o facility, in the country's southeastern Esp?-rito Santo state; the equipment will remain halted for an indeterminate period, the company told Fastmarkets on Friday April 3.The blast furnace has capacity to produce 2.8 million tonnes of crude steel per year. The Tubar??o unit supplies sl...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe have been stable day on day but were expected to decrease due to poor demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday April 3.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was unchanged at ?,?470.00 ($512.11) per tonne on Friday.Friday's index was calculated based on offers and "achievable" prices heard at ?,?460-47...Read More
Chris MarcheseChief Mining Analyst, GoldSeek & SilverSeek Week Ended April-3, 2020 $GORO, $EXK, $PAAS, $NEM, $TXG.TO, $GPL, $AG, $USAS, $EXN.TO, $AEM, $AGI, $AR.TO, $ALO, $BTG, $EQX, $BTG, $GCM.TO, $INV.TO, $KGC, $KL, $PG.TO, $PVG, $OSK.TO, $OR, $SAND, $TMR.TO, $WPM The Mexican federal government has mandated that all non-essential businesses, including mining, temporarily suspend oper...Read More
By Mike Gleason A surge in coronavirus cases, an expansion of economic lockdowns, and an explosion in unemployment claims hit markets this week. But this deluge of bad news didn't seem to catch investors by surprise. Instead of crashing to new lows, the stock market held within a trading range and rallied yesterday following the release of a horrific jobs report. It's been a huge week f...Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort287,52928,68032,344128,083412,042447,956473,066Change from Prior Reporting Period -30,399-882-11,535-7,628-35,492-49,562-47,909Traders18355635752269146 Small Speculators (C) GoldSeek.com LongShortOpen Interest 47,69622,586495,652 -2,120-3,773-51,682 non reportable positionsCha...Read More
By Dave KranzlerUnequivocally, gold does not trade on the Comex. The Comex trades paper gold derivatives. It is a futures and options exchange on which a small amount of 100 oz. gold bars change ownership each contract month. The transfer of title is facilitated by the creation of an electronic record called a "warrant." But even these "warrants" which assign title to specific bars are derivativ...Read More
Indian mills cut the export price of hot-rolled coil by $10 per tonne in the week ended Friday April 3, amid the complete lockdown of the domestic market while the country tries to control the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.The price for steel HRC, export, fob main port India, was assessed by Fastmarkets at $380-385 per tonne on Friday, a fall of $10 per tonne compared with...Read More
By Jp CortezTwo weeks ago, during a March 17 address to the nation in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, President Donald Trump asked that Americans work from home, postpone unnecessary travel, and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people.And last week, on March 27, Trump signed a stimulus package of over $2 trillion dollars to provide relief to an economy on the precipice of collapse.T...Read More