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

Pessimism continued to dominate the CIS export market for steel billet in the first week of August amid the weakening of the finished long steel markets both in the CIS and in customers' domestic territories.Another reason for the dullness of sentiment was the recent sharp drop in global iron ore prices, following the lack of demand from China, which is the largest global iron ore importer. This p...Read More

Once upon a time people looked up to the Fed and believed that they had the power to determine the future. There are still those true believers, who think the Fed can do no wrong. But history has taught us otherwise. While the rest of the world has been opening the monetary spigot at full blast, the Fed was tightening. Now that's all changed. And watch gold and silver continue to thrust forward. $...Read More

Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More

"We are in a new bull market in gold, and the price is headed to at least $2,500 per ounce. . . . The stock market is going to continue to go down over the next 2 1/2 years."Part 1 (part 2 below)Part 2Charles Nenner founded, and is president of, the Charles Nenner Research Center. Mr. Nenner has provided his independent market research to the following entities all over the world: hedge funds,...Read More

Michael Pento is a specialist in Austrian economics and is the President of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Prior to starting Pento Portfolio Strategies he served as a senior economist and VP of the managed products division of another well known financial firm. Michael has also created ETFs and UITs that were sold throughout Wall Street. Earlier in his career, he worked on the floor of the NYSE. He i...Read More

The US-China Conflict - 4:38Investing in China - 11:30Public and Private Markets in China - 20:32Portfolio Characteristics of Chinese Markets - 24:47Looking Ahead - 27:53Over the last 40 years, China's rapid economic expansion has altered the world's geopolitical and economic landscape. Bridgewater's Founder, Co-CIO and co-Chairman Ray Dalio joins Bridgewater's Senior Portfolio Strategist Jim Hask...Read More

When Bill Murphy, legendary crusader for the truth on gold, and co-founder of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA.org,) declares that gold is behaving differently than he has ever witnessed in his decades of studying the precious metals markets and manipulations, those wanting to be aware and prepared would do well to sit up and take notice.Bill Murphy is a former American professional foot...Read More