Wall Street starts the last day of the week higher. Core-CPI comes in slightly above market expectations. DXY looks to close the week at multi-month lows. After rising to its highest level in nearly four months at $1333, the XAU/USD pair started consolidating its daily gains as the ongoing rally of the major equity indexes in the U.S. weighed on the demand for traditional safe-havens. As of writ...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are generally higher this morning, Friday January 12, with prices fairly uniformly up between 0.5% and 0.6% - apart from tin prices that are down 0.1% at $20,159 per tonne. Three-month copper prices are up by 0.5% at $7,167 per tonne and zinc prices have been as high as $3,405 per tonne, which is a fresh multi-year high.Volume has been average, with...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (SMM)? 1/4 ? SHFE zinc stood out from the performance of other nonferrous metals with a 0.8% rise today, while nickel was down close to 2% and lead down 1%. Copper and aluminium both edged down 0.5%.The ferrous complex remained weak with iron ore down over 2% and rebar down 1.6%. Coking coal and hot-rolled coil were down some 1.4% and coke closed 0.7% lower.Copper: SHFE copper was...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (SMM)? 1/4 ? SHFE zinc stood out from the performance of other nonferrous metals with a 0.8% rise today, while nickel was down close to 2% and lead down 1%. Copper and aluminium both edged down 0.5%.The ferrous complex remained weak with iron ore down over 2% and rebar down 1.6%. Coking coal and hot-rolled coil were down some 1.4% and coke closed 0.7% lower.Copper: SHFE copper was...Read More

Gold rallies in spite of rising interest rates, perplexing the pundits.A healthy increase in inflation is also boosting gold demand in the U.S.Meanwhile, improving prospects in Europe have abetted overseas gold demand.Gold prices edged higher on Thursday, reaching their highest level since September and buoyed by a weaker dollar and rising oil prices. The yellow metal is on track for its fifth str...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (SMM)? 1/4 ? SHFE zinc stood out from the performance of other nonferrous metals with a 0.8% rise today, while nickel was down close to 2% and lead down 1%. Copper and aluminium both edged down 0.5%.The ferrous complex remained weak with iron ore down over 2% and rebar down 1.6%. Coking coal and hot-rolled coil were down some 1.4% and coke closed 0.7% lower.Copper: SHFE copper was...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold prices are moderately higher in early U.S. trading Friday, but off the overnight gains that notched a four-month high. U.S. consumer price inflation that was a bit higher than expected helped to pull the gold market off its overnight highs. However, gold and silver prices are being supported by a slumping U.S. dollar index and a surging Euro currency. February Comex gold was la...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (SMM)? 1/4 ?Copper inventory in Shanghai bonded area stood at 481,000 mt for the week ending Friday January 12, up from 480,200 mt last week. For editorial queries, please contact Daisy Tseng at daisy@smm.cn For more information on how to access our research reports, please email service.en@smm.cn  Read More

U.S. equity index futures were mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures were unchanged in pre-opening trade.Index futures moved lower following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus for December Consumer Prices was an increase of 0.1% versus a gain of 0.4% in November. Actual was an increase of 0.1%. Excluding food and energy, December Consumer Prices was an increase of 0.2% versus a g...Read More

The equity markets have been as crazy as I have seen since the Internet bubble of the 1990s with one major difference -- they never go down. The dot.com craze was wild in both directions; stocks always ended up higher but had major swings of 3% to 5%. Today's market has not seen a down move of 3% in two years, which is the longest such period in history. For the last month, the gold market has bee...Read More

Yamana released today its preliminary results for the year 2017, which were above forecast.Both gold and silver production are anticipated to surge in 2018-2019 as the Cerro Moro adds to cash flow (production of 80K Oz of gold in 2018).Yamana has entered into a copper advanced sales program pursuant to which the Company will receive $125.0 million on January 12, in exchange for 40.3 M Cu Lbs.I be...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (SMM)? 1/4 ?Copper: LME copper is expected to trade at $7,065-7,200/mt today with support at the 20-day moving average while the SHFE 1803 contract is to trade at 54,200-55,300 yuan/mt. In the spot market, the premiums are set to be firmer at flat to 50 yuan/mt today.Zinc: LME zinc is aiming for $3,400/mt against the backdrop of good fundamentals in the international market. We se...Read More

Operations at Sumitomo Corp’s Ambatovy nickel mine in Madagascar were suspended on January 4 before hurricane Ava hit, the company said on Thursday January 11.Some equipment has been damaged but the maintenance work has started. The company expected the repairing work to finish by the end of January while production would be halted during the time, Reuters reported.This would have some impac...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold broke above the $1,322 level as the dollar came under further pressure overnight. With growth in Europe accelerating, the markets are expecting the ECB to begin a more aggressive tightening cycle. Physical demand in Asia has also picked up ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year. The recent move in gold has been almost entirely correlated to dollar weakness, which continues to rema...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (SMM)? 1/4 ?China’s imported unwrought copper reached 4.69 million mt in 2017, down 5.2% from levels seen in 2016.The import volume in December stood at 450,000 mt, down 4.3% from a month ago and down 8.2% from December 2016. For editorial queries, please contact Daisy Tseng at daisy@smm.cn For more information on how to access our research reports, pleas...Read More

Gold has reached the full ATR projection boosted by the positive EUR flow and weaker USD. According to Admiral Correlation Matrix, we see a very positive correlation between EUR/USD and Gold on last 500 H1 bars. At this point we could see a retracement from the top 1333.40 and if the price breaks 1326.70 to the downside, next target might be 1320 zone. However, if the price breaks above 1334 then...Read More

SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (SMM)? 1/4 ?Copper: LME copper is expected to trade at $7,065-7,200/mt today with support at the 20-day moving average while the SHFE 1803 contract is to trade at 54,200-55,300 yuan/mt. In the spot market, the premiums are set to be firmer at flat to 50 yuan/mt today.Zinc: LME zinc is aiming for $3,400/mt against the backdrop of good fundamentals in the international market. We se...Read More

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SHANGHAI, Jan 12 (SMM)? 1/4 ?Copper: LME copper is expected to trade at $7,065-7,200/mt today with support at the 20-day moving average while the SHFE 1803 contract is to trade at 54,200-55,300 yuan/mt. In the spot market, the premiums are set to be firmer at flat to 50 yuan/mt today.Zinc: LME zinc is aiming for $3,400/mt against the backdrop of good fundamentals in the international market. We se...Read More

Higher oil prices both boon and curse for gold. Oil rally could boost inflation (good for gold), but Could also force central banks to quicken policy tightening (negative for gold). Brent oil hit $70 a barrel for the first time since December 2014. Will it have a positive impact on gold? As per textbook rules, oil price rally boosts inflation expectations, thus leading to higher demand for gold...Read More