By Keith WeinerShort-term interest rates have been relentlessly rising since the second half of 2015. For example, 3-month LIBOR was 0.28% in July of that year. It is now 1.7%. This is just a result of the Fed centrally planning our economy, managing our interest rate for us.Long-term rates have not moved. The 10-year Treasury yield in July 2015 was 2.5%. It is now ... 2.5%.The direct result of...Read More

The Turkish Steel Producers' Association (T???oeD) is worried that the country's imports of rebar and hot-rolled coil (HRC) will increase because of cuts to import duties, it said on Monday January 8.The 10% import duty on rebar was removed completely on January 1 and the duty on HRC was reduced to 3.5%...Read More

Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD in Statistics, and his career has stretched over 25 years. He aspires to thrive in the financial editor world, unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Jim operates a free website called Golden Jackass.Read More

By Graham Summers The market is now officially in the largest bubble relative to the economy in history. Warren Buffett once famously stated that his favorite means of valuing stock was the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio. This was the very metric he used when he decided to avoid investing during the Tech Bubble. Bill King of The King Report notes that based on this metric, stocks ar...Read More

Time is more important than price. That's what we - investors - are often made to believe regarding the future price movement. And rightfully so. The price could reach a bottom several dollars ahead of the predicted price target or it could break through it, leaving investors wondering, if there was a breakdown and thus they should expect to see another big downswing shortly. With time, things are...Read More

In a recent newsletter John Mauldin wrote: "It is monetary policy madness to raise rates and undertake quantitative tightening at the same time." However, this is exactly what the Fed plans to do in 2018. Has the Fed gone mad?If mad is defined as diverging in an irrational way from normal practice then the answer to the above question is no. The Fed is following the same rule book it has always...Read More

Gold edged down on Monday, retreating further from last week's 3-1/2 month high as the dollar clawed back some ground against the buoyant euro and as traders bet on further increases to U.S. interest rates after Friday's payrolls data.Dollar weakness, which continued into early January after its biggest annual drop since 2003, had helped to lift assets priced in the U.S. currency, with gold last w...Read More

In this interview, David Morgan goes into how incredibly undervalued silver is, the silver/gold ratio, the manipulation of gold and silver markets by big banks and governments, why it concerns the establishment and the inevitable fall of the fiat centrally planned system.He also explains why people should consider silver for their portfolio. We cannot forget that silver and gold have been history'...Read More

Import prices for rebar in Singapore have increased following end-users' return to the spot market after the year-end holiday season.Metal Bulletin's price assessment for Southeast Asian rebar imports - which mainly looks at cargoes sold into Singapore on a theoretical weight basis - was $570-580 per tonne cfr for the week to Monday January 8, up $10-15 per tonne from the previous week. Bids had i...Read More

By JP Koninghttps://www.bullionstar.com/People who live in developed nations have grown used to inflation of around 2% a year over the last few decades. Why do prices generally rise by that amount? What drives the purchasing power of money in these countries? Why can't prices stay constant year-over-year rather than increasing?To help answer some of these questions, let's go far back in time. We...Read More

"Inflation is going to be the theme of 2018. How do we know this is going to be the case? Let's look at what happened to the dollar last year. The dollar got melted down last year, and this trajectory has been going on for decades. It's just getting progressively worse, and it's going to continue this year."Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm o...Read More

Source: Michael J. Ballanger for Streetwise Reports 01/05/2018 Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger likes what he sees for gold in 2018's first week of trading. -->While the moniker for this missive is "Gold and Gold Miners," I just sit back in absolute AWE as the global equity investors (otherwise known as "Stock jockeys") have decided that "cash is TRASH!" and despite a massive "miss"...Read More

Turkish steel mills returned to the deep-sea scrap markets willing to pay higher prices on Monday January 8.Metal Bulletin's daily index for Northern European HMS 1&2 (80:20) closed the day at $368.20 per tonne cfr, up by $6.58 per tonne.The daily index for US-origin scrap closed at $378.85 per tonne cfr. Up by $9.34 per tonne, putting the premium for US material...Read More

* World stocks enjoy best start to year since 2010* European stocks hit highest since 2015* Dollar strengthens against euro after recent weakness* Commodity prices pause after recent rally By Tommy WilkesLONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - World stock markets hovered close to all-time highs on Monday as the best start to a year in eight years showed little sign of running out of steam, with the combination...Read More

"Employees who expressed views deviating from the majority view at Google on political subjects raised in the workplace and relevant to Google's employmentContinue...Read More

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(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters)By Jamie McGeeverLONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Hedge funds have kicked off 2018 with their biggest bet ever on the euro rising, a clear vote of confidence in the single currency but, with positioning so stretched, one which could backfire in the near term.Data from the Chicago Futures Trading Commission show that hedge fund...Read More

Continue...Egon von Greyerz is founder and Managing Partner of Matterhorn Asset Management AG & GoldSwitzerland. Since the 1990s Egon von Greyerz has been actively involved with financial investment activities including mergers and acquisitions and asset allocation consultancy for private family funds. This led to the creation of Matterhorn Asset Management, an asset management company based on we...Read More

Turkish domestic scrap prices increased in line with rising imported scrap values on Monday January 8.The majority of Turkish steel producers raised their auto bundle (DKP grade) scrap purchasing prices over the past week.Alloy long steel mill Asil ??elik raised its buy price to TRY1,370 ($366) per tonne delivered, while long and flat steel producer ??olakoglu increased its price to TRY1,340...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - China's central bank said it will skip open market operations for the 12th straight trading day on Tuesday as liquidity levels in the banking system were "appropriate".On a net basis, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) will drain 130 billion yuan ($20.01 billion) from the money market for the day, equal to the amount of reverse repos due to mature on Tuesday.Th...Read More