Brazil's apparent steel consumption increased by 6.90% year on year in November, to 1.70 million tonnes, mostly due to an improved performance in the flat steel sector, according to the national steel association A??o Brasil.Apparent consumption of flat steel products grew by 11.70% in the same comparison, to 1.10 million tonnes, while long steel use declined by 0.80% year-on-year, to 606,000 tonn...Read More
Fastmarkets MB hosted the 22nd Middle East Iron & Steel conference in Dubai last week. Here are five things we learned...1 High-grade iron ore derivative will be an important tool for Middle East DRI industry A world-first 65% iron ore derivative launched by the Singapore Exchange in early December was hailed as an important hedging tool for the Middle East direct-reduced ironmaking (DRI) industry...Read More
It's been nine months since the United States announced Section 232 tariffs, and over six months since a 10% tax was applied to imports of aluminium from Canada, Mexico and the European Union. There's been a huge debate over how successful the tariffs - imposed on the grounds of national security and also applied at a 25% rate to steel - have been. Much depends on who you talk to, and what their s...Read More
Years ago, the idea that machines would replace humans on the trading floor seemed far-fetched and the suggestion that algorithms might replace humans entirely ridiculous.But both have happened in some shape or form, making the advent of blockchain - now being vaunted as the next game-changer in technology - a lot more realistic than naysayers might initially think.Dozens of trials and projec...Read More
A look at what Tommy Sotomayor has said and done that most people are unaware of.Support my work via donation:https://www.paypal.me/conspiracydudeRead More
Stock markets are forever cyclical, an endless series of alternating bulls and bears. And after one of the greatest bulls in U.S. history, odds are a young bear is now gathering steam. It is being fueled by record Fed tightening, bubble valuations, trade wars, and mounting political turmoil. Bears are dangerous events driving catastrophic losses for buy-and-hold investors. Different strate...Read More
Gold rallied strongly in recent weeks, buoyed by growing fears that an emerging global economic downturn and that a market correction was due. The yellow metal is now hovering at around US$1,280 an ounce, and there are signs that it could move higher during 2019.Silver also spiked, rising to over US$15 per ounce, which will be a boon for silver miners weighed down by the poor outlook for the white...Read More
The pullback in the TSX Index has put many of Canada's top stocks in the red for the year.However, a number of other companies that have been in the doghouse for some time have actually generated strong returns, and investors are wondering if more gains could be on the way.Let's take a look at Cameco (TSX:CCO)(NYSE:CCJ) to see if it deserves to be on your 2019 buy list.Rebound underwayCameco is Ca...Read More
Continental Gold's (TSX:CNL) stock went into free fall after the murder of three of its geologists in an armed attack on its facilities at its Berlin property in northwestern Colombia. Even a significant rally in gold over recent weeks, which sees the yellow metal trading at around US$1,280 an ounce, has been incapable of breathing life into the miner's depressed stock; it's down by around 40% for...Read More
Stock markets are forever cyclical, an endless series of alternating bulls and bears. And after one of the greatest bulls in U.S. history, odds are a young bear is now gathering steam. It is being fueled by record Fed tightening, bubble valuations, trade wars, and mounting political turmoil. Bears are dangerous events driving catastrophic losses for buy-and-hold investors. Different strate...Read More
It's time to end the absurd "war on terror." What exactly is the U.S. Government fighting? Hillary Clinton asserted that pulling out of Syria would "put our national security as grave risk." Huh? I see the U.S. military terrorizing the citizens of the countries occupied by U.S. forces all over the world. I have yet to see a Syrian military jet fly beyond the Middle East airspace looking to drop...Read More
The Orefinders McGarry Mine, northeast Ontario. Source: Orefinders Resources Inc.Orefinders Resources Inc. [ORX-TSXV; ORFDF-OTC] said Monday December 31 that it is preparing for a market turn as it continues with a strategy that offers levered exposure to the price of gold, while preparing the company for future mining industry consolidation.While Orefinders is a gold-focused company, its sharehol...Read More
Rio Tinto signs power supply deal for Mongolian copper mineTurquoise Hill Resources Ltd. [TRQ-TSX], a 51%-owned affiliate of Rio Tinto Plc [RIO-NYSE] Group, said Monday December 31 that it has signed a power source framework agreement (PSFA) that covers the supply of power to the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper mine extension in Mongolia.The mine is located in the Gobi Desert, close to the border with Chi...Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Nevsun Resources Ltd. says Chinese company Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd. has been successful in its $1.86-billion friendly takeover offer for the company.The companies say about 89.37 per cent of the total issued and outstanding Nevsun shares on a fully diluted basis were tendered to the offer of $6 per share in cash by the Dec. 28 deadline.The offer has now been extend...Read More
Please Note: US markets are closed tomorrow for New Year's Day. CloseGain/LossGold $1282.20+$2.20Silver$15.47+$0.10XAU70.66+1.41%HUI160.58+1.54%GDM588.56+1.55%JSE Gold1375.75+7.84USD96.14-0.24Euro114.59+0.12Yen91.23+0.39Oil$45.41+$0.0810-Year2.683%-0.036T-Bond146.125+0.59375Dow23327.46+1.15%Nasdaq6635.28+0.77%S&P2506.85+0.85% The Metals: Gold gained $4.10 to $1284.10 in London before it d...Read More
By David HaggithThe world is descending into intellectual chaos. Read El Erian in the following linked article, and then come and back tell me we have not moved into madness:El-Erian: 1000-Point Swings In The Dow Are The "New Reality"There is clearly a tooth missing in one of the gears in El-Erian's brain. How do you make this statement ...[A recession] is certainly not becoming a reality. You n...Read More
My Two CentsBy Andy Sutton / Graham Mehl This article was originally written by Andy Sutton on 7/24/2009; roughly 4 months after the markets bottomed from the 2008 blowout. Anything 'new' will be bolded. The 'Two Cents' series at the time was going through something of a post mortem of the meltdown and trying to give people a 'reset' so to speak regarding what was true and what wasn't. People f...Read More
By Clint SiegnerIt's amazing what passes as a market these days.Stocks rallied during the Christmas week, and the mainstream financial press would like you to believe bargain hunters swooped in after the weeks of heavy selling to grab some deals. The truth is there are very few actual people still evaluating the merits of publicly traded companies.The markets are driven by programmed trading and...Read More
By Frank HolmesStrengthsThe best performing metal this week was silver, up 5.15 percent, finally getting some respect as it approaches its 200-day moving average. Hitting six-month highs this week, money managers are the most bullish they've been on gold in months. Gold has been a beneficiary of the volatility experienced in global equities this week. Bloomberg reports that gold priced in the Br...Read More
The past couple of years have been brutal for precious metals mining stocks. Gold and silver went down a little while the miners went down a lot - four times as much to be exact. That's painful but not surprising. The miners, being in effect options on the underlying metals, tend to be a lot more volatile. But volatility works both ways, and starting in November gold began to rise while the mine...Read More