A transaction in the seaborne coking coal market on Tuesday January 22 took participants by surprise, having been concluded at a higher price than expected, in contrast with prevailing sentiment.A February-laycan cargo of premium mid-vol hard coking coal was sold at around $195-196 per tonne cfr China to an end user in southern China, according to various sources. This is around $4 per tonne highe...Read More

Summary of BHP's production results for the three months ended December 31, 2018.(year-on-year change)Copper416,000 tonnes, -3%Iron ore58 million tonnes, -6%Iron ore...Read More

China's ferrous futures largely declined during morning trading on Tuesday January 22, apart from the coking coal contract, which ended slightly higher than its opening price. Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange May rebar: 3,661 yuan ($539) per tonne, down 24 yuan per tonneMay hot-rolled coil: 3,573 yuan per tonne, down 13 yuan per tonneDalian Commodity Exchange May...Read More

The Fanya Exchange will auction 34.64 tonnes of indium stocks it holds in its warehouse at the end of the month, market sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday January 22. Of the auctioned volume, 7.6 tonnes are stored in a Kunming warehouse of Changyue Feiping, a Chinese storage and logistics company, while the remaining 27.04 tonnes are in a local warehouse of Yunnan Postal Savings Bank. The stocks...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed during morning trading on Tuesday January 22, with aluminium futures leading gains on more than 37,000 tonnes freshly canceled while broad strength in the US dollar index fueled downward pressure. Aluminium lead the complex with the most volumes traded over the morning at 4,616 lots as of 9:50am London time, while more than 50,000 tonnes o...Read More

Chinese steelmakers raised their offers on Tuesday January 22 in the absence of any selling pressure before the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,700-3,720 yuan ($544-547) per tonne, up 40 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,660-3,680 yuan per tonne, up 30 yuan per tonneMany steelmakers in China raised their offers since they have secured enough orders for...Read More

Once again the upside initiatives in three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange have run into overhead resistance, with the complex down by an average of 0.4% this morning, Tuesday January 22.Other commodity prices have also shown weakness, which we put down to the focus of slower global growth after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowered its global growth outlook to 3.5% i...Read More

Aggressive bidding and lower offer prices weighed on manganese ore prices in China, where inventories also fell sharply in the week ended Friday January 18. Manganese ore prices in China continue to fall  Manganese ore stocks in China slump  Ferro-manganese prices in Europe, China drop  Silico-manganese price fob India falls  Alloy prices stable in United States The manganese...Read More

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Last week we discussed the difference between a rally and bull market. Gold stocks have been in a rally. That rally is now over as gold stocks peaked at their 400-day moving averages days ago and sliced through their 200-day moving averages Friday.Take a look at the charts of any gold stock index (GDX, GDXJ, HUI) and it's clear they are in a downtrend. Go back two to three years. You'll see lo...Read More

While an improving global economic outlook coupled with a firmer U.S. dollar and higher interest rates points to poor prospects for gold during 2019, there are signs that Equinox Gold Corp. (TSXV:EQX) will rally over the year. The miner has lost 19% over the last year compared to gold, only shedding 4% and creating an opportunity for investors to gain levered exposure to the yellow metal by inves...Read More

While gold gained 14% over the last month intermediate gold miner Gran Colombia Gold Corp. (TSX:GCM) gained over 18% as the performance of its one-time troubled operations in Colombia improved. There has been growing conjecture that now is the time for investors to add Gran Colombia to their portfolios because of a positive outlook for gold combined with the significant enhancements being made to...Read More

With a mix of earnings slowdowns, rising share prices, and negative outlooks, the "hold signal" list for stocks on the TSX index contains enough reasons to stay on the fence. However, at a casual glance, there may seem to be a lot of great stocks on that list that ought to be snapped up right away: take that low P/E or attractive dividend, that high growth or low debt, for instance.But all is not...Read More

Tense negotiations in the lead up to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) led to volatility for metals stocks. The United States slapped steel and aluminum tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports on June 1, 2018. Both countries have lobbied for these tariffs to be removed after signing the USMCA, but they remain in effect.The squeeze on the market was initially very positive for steel...Read More

What do fruit and vegetable drinks, gold, and utilities have in common? On the face of it, not very much; however, all three industries offer Canadian investors some passive income in largely defensive industries. Representing these industries are the following three TSX index luminaries; their stats are discussed here for the prospective buyer.Fortis (TSX:FTS)(NYSE:FTS)Fortis had a one-year past...Read More

Last week we discussed the difference between a rally and bull market. Gold stocks have been in a rally. That rally is now over as gold stocks peaked at their 400-day moving averages days ago and sliced through their 200-day moving averages Friday.Take a look at the charts of any gold stock index (GDX, GDXJ, HUI) and it's clear they are in a downtrend. Go back two to three years. You'll see lo...Read More

A recent review of gold mining stocks by The MoneyLetter turned up three analyst reports with recommendations ranging from 'speculative buy' to 'buy' to 'outperformer'.The MoneyLetter recently surveyed security analyst reports and found three gold mining stocks to buy.PI Financial on Troilus GoldGold and copper mining stock Troilus Gold Corp. (TSX-TLG) is "piecing together positive exploration res...Read More

Eddie Sugar had come a long way from running orders directly for Brent Potts at Potts West Trumbull in Bond Street in the 1980s to his seat in a senior executive position at Jefferies & Co, one ofRead More

The Goldsource Mines Eagle Mountain Gold Mine in Guyana, South America. Photo courtesy Goldsource Mines Inc.Shares of Goldsource Mines Inc. [GXX-TSXV, GXSFF-OTCBB, G5M-FSE] rallied sharply on Wednesday after the company reported a new high-grade discovery at its Eagle Mountain Gold Project in Guyana.The discovery was made during ongoing exploration in an area known as the Salbora target.Highlight...Read More

Drilling operations at the Barkerville Gold Mines Cariboo gold project near Wells, British Columbia. Source: Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. [BGM-TSXV; BGMZF-OTC; IWUB-FSE] on Wednesday reported impressive results from drilling at its Cariboo Gold project in central British Columbia.Wednesday's news release contains the final drilling results from the 2018 Cow Mountain explo...Read More