The latest metal markets news and price moves to start the North American day on Thursday December 20.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were predominantly higher during morning trading, with a weaker dollar index sustaining buying momentum while the potential removal of US sanctions against UC Rusal pressured aluminium to a fresh 2018 low.Reaching an intraday low of $1,905.50 per ton...Read More
The three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part weaker this morning, Thursday December 20. The exception was aluminium that was up by 0.4% at $1,916 per tonne, while the rest were lower by an average of 0.5%.Copper was down the most with a 1.2% drop to $5,994 per tonne, this after rebounding 1.8% on Tuesday. Today's low at $5,946 per tonne once again breached...Read More
Revised standards for rebar in China have failed to lend continued support to vanadium prices in the country since their introduction in November, primarily due to enforcement of the standards not being as stringent as previously expected, market sources told Fastmarkets.The new rebar policy, effective November 1, 2018, requires Chinese steel mills to eliminate the original 335 megapascals (MPa)-t...Read More
Import prices for stainless steel in East Asia continued on a downward trend over the past week amid the year-end lull.Fastmarkets MB's import price assessment for 304 stainless 2mm trimmed cold-rolled coil in East Asia was $1,860-1,930 per tonne cif for the week ended Wednesday December 19, down $40 per tonne from a week earlier.Fastmarkets MB's import price assessment for 304 stainless trimmed h...Read More
Weak production growth, steady-to-rising demand, supply deficits and falling inventories pushed prices of palladium up 19% in 2018, after a 51% jump in 2017, Scotiabank economist Rory Johnston concludes in his Dec. 20 Commodity Price Index report.By contrast, cobalt prices were down 24% year-to-date in 2018. That's a sharp reversal from the 127% gain in 2017, which made the metal the best performi...Read More
The dovish Federal Reserve lit a fire under gold and its miners' stocks this week. As universally expected the FOMC hiked rates for the 9th time in this cycle. But it also lowered its 2019 rate-hike outlook bowing to the stock-market selloff. Traders dumped gold initially thinking that wasn't dovish enough. But market reactions to the FOMC formed over a couple days, and gold surged overnig...Read More
Gold stocks have had a rough run for several years, and while most investors have given up on the sector, others are starting to kick the tires on the industry's top names.Let's take a look at the current situation in the gold market to see if Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) (NYSE:ABX) deserves to be in your portfolio.Gold recoveryGold recently surged above US$1,260 per ounce, adding to a rebound that has...Read More
The dovish Federal Reserve lit a fire under gold and its miners' stocks this week. As universally expected the FOMC hiked rates for the 9th time in this cycle. But it also lowered its 2019 rate-hike outlook bowing to the stock-market selloff. Traders dumped gold initially thinking that wasn't dovish enough. But market reactions to the FOMC formed over a couple days, and gold surged overnig...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesDec 21, 2018Novo just announced results from testing at two different projects in the Pilbara. I’ll start this piece with the results from the Tomra sorting machine because it’s so simple to understand. It works.Novo took four samples from Purdy’s/Comet Well and ran them through the Tomra machine. In three of the tests, the material ranging in size from 6 mm...Read More
The company said it would buy for cancellation up to 25.51 million Class A shares. The public float comprised 255.13 million shares as at December 14, and 391.25 million total issued and outstanding on the same date.The programme will expire on December 23, 2019. All purchases at prevailing market prices will be made via the TSX, alternative Canadian trading systems and/or the NYSE.Alamo...Read More
The Sweet Repose adit at ePower's Panther Creek Project in Idaho. Left to right, Jay Gatten Vendor, Michael Collins, CEO, ePower Metals, and Brian Brewer, consulting geologist. Source: ePower Metals Inc.ePower Metals Inc. [EPWR-TSXV] says it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Exploracion Auramex S.A. de C.V. and its Magenta Cobalt Project in Sinaloa, Mexico.ePower Metals is buying the...Read More
Teck acquires 13.8% stake in Sun Metals.Teck Resources Ltd. [TECK.B-TSX; TECK-NYSE] has spent $3.5 million to acquire a 13.8% stake in Sun Metals Corp. [SUNM-TSXV], a junior that has been moving to fund exploration at the Stardust polymetallic project in British Columbia.Teck said it has acquired the interest by picking up 12.5 million common shares of Sun Metals at 28 cents per share. The shares...Read More
Nexa set to start construction at Brazilian zinc mineNexa Resources S.A. [NEXA-TSX, NYSE] says it plans to start construction at the Aripuana zinc project in Brazil, which ranks as one of the 10 largest undeveloped zinc projects in the world.The announcement comes after the Environmental Authority of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil granted the installation license for the project.The Aripuana Pro...Read More
Share this articlePRAGUE, Czech Republic - The death toll in a methane explosion at a black coal mine in northeastern Czech Republic has increased to 13, a mining company said Friday.OKD mining company spokesman Ivo Celechovsky said that 12 of the dead were Polish nationals while one was Czech, correcting information given earlier that said there were 11 Poles and two Czechs.A further 10 miners we...Read More
CloseGain/LossOn WeekGold $1255.50-$5.50+1.39%Silver$14.62-$0.15+0.27%XAU68.67-1.60%+1.60%HUI156.47-1.28%+2.50%GDM570.74-1.04%+1.84%JSE Gold1316.81-28.01+1.12%USD97.03+0.69-0.44%Euro113.63-0.94+0.51%Yen90.02-0.10+2.03%Oil$45.59-$0.29-10.96%10-Year2.783%-0.021-3.80%Bond144.8125+0.09375+0.96%Dow22445.37-1.81%-6.87%Nasdaq6332.99-2.99%-8.36%S&P2416.58-2.06%-7.05% The Metals: ...Read More
By Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA As we've been saying, the stock market will have great influence on Gold. It has been easy to see in recent months. The S&P 500 has cracked, losing both its 200-day and 400-day moving averages. Gold and gold stocks have benefitted and gained in recent months even with a stable to rising US Dollar. The past 65 years of history shows us that in almost any context (...Read More
By David MorganMany "experts" warn that the dollar will collapse and lead to global economic turmoil. In this scenario, investors would rush to other currencies to escape further losses. Global trade would seize up because the majority of international contracts demand a dollar payment. Other assets would skyrocket. The worst-hit would be currencies like the euro, yen, and the yuan. Gold prices...Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort182,168106,20853,411132,148224,823367,727384,442Change from Prior Reporting Period 12,568-2,893310-2,13713,17010,74110,587Traders17079694949247173 Small Speculators (C) GoldSeek.com LongShortOpen Interest 44,75828,043412,485 -506-35210,235 non reportable positionsChange from t...Read More
By David Brady, CFAI have to admit that the action in Gold of late has been exciting. After dumping post the FOMC meeting on Wednesday, Gold came roaring back yesterday and then some. It closed at its highest level since July. What is more interesting is: why? It is this that will determine whether we head higher or not. The following are what I believe may be the drivers of Gold's recent renais...Read More