People should not be expect the coronavirus crisis to blow over soon. "If we stop then all of our efforts will be wasted and we could potentially see a second peak. So over time, probably over the next six months, we will have a three-week review."Continue...Read More

"The economy? We have no economy. There is no economy...and yet stocks rally?!"Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ul...Read More

Mickey Fulp the Mercenary Geologist sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss the pernicious erosion of the Bill of Rights as both federal government and municipalities expand their footprint through their social and economic responses to the Wuhan Flu. We will discuss the euphemism's to Marital Law such as social distancing, self-isolation,shelter in place, and the impacts...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne joins me to recap this month for gold, silver, and gold stocks. Looking at the monthly charts we have huge candlesticks which correlate to a failed breakout and a failed breakdown. Here's where we stand now.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold Premium, a publication...Read More

The Hydroxy treatment appears to be working so far! In an exclusive interview, Dr. Vladmir Zelenko shares with us a preliminary study outlining that out of his 699 patients treated, he has had ZERO deaths, ZERO intubations, and four hospitalizations. In today's episode of Common Sense, Dr. Zelenko breaks it down and gives a lucid explanation of the rationale behind his treatment. If you have been...Read More

According to St. Louis Fed projections, the coronavirus pandemic could result in 47 million jobs lost and send the unemployment rate past 32%!Continue...Read More

Medical experts in Europe and beyond are unable to keep up with the number of coronavirus patients needing respirators so they have come up with an interesting solution to the problem.Continue...Read More

Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to com...Read More

Nominal interest rates are at zero (with real rates probably negative), deficit spending continues to explode and the Federal Reserve's Continue...Read More

Ferro-vanadium prices continued to move down last week in Europe and China on weakening consumer demand due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on business operations. Measures imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus outside of China continues to pressure China's export price for ferro-vanadium, which ticked down for the second consecutive week on Thursday March 26. Fastmarkets assessed&...Read More

Swedish steelmaker SSAB plans temporary worker layoffs at its operations in Finland, and consequently a reduction in output, in response to the downturn in the flat steel market resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the company said on Monday March 30.SSAB has initiated negotiations with its employees on the proposed layoffs at its Finnish assets, the company said. The decision followed a drastic...Read More

Several Turkish carmakers - Honda, Karsan, MAN, Anadolu Isuzu, Temsa, T? 1/4 rk Trakt??r, Hyndai Assan and Otokar - announced production stoppages this week because of concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).Oyak Renault, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mercedes-Benz T? 1/4 rk and Ford Otosan all announced production stops earlier this month because of virus concerns.Honda Turke...Read More

European Metal Recycling (EMR) has shut down part of its operations in the UK due to the Covid-19 virus outbreak, the company said on its website on Friday March 27.The closures took effect from Friday evening, the company said, but no dateline was given for the move. Many scrap suppliers in the UK are cutting production, with almost all scrap processing shuttered in Scotland and much of it in Eng...Read More

Major Japanese steelmaker JFE Steel is facing the prospect of recording zero profit for the year ending March 2020 for the first time in its history due to global economic tensions and rising raw materials prices, it warned on Friday March 27.This has led the company to plan to shut one blast furnace in its East Japan Works and restructure its remaining operations in Japan, it said.In brief JFE St...Read More

The China Association of Metalscrap Utilization (Camu) is urging the Chinese government to reopen the country to ferrous scrap imports to meet rising demand and reduce steelmaking costs.The association last week made two suggestions aimed at keeping low-grade scrap at bay in the event that the government heeds its call.The first proposal is for China to adopt international standards of classificat...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 30 that are worth another look.Gerdau has halted price increase attempts in Brazil amid market weakness because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by local investment bank Ita?? BBA from Sunday March 29.The Covid-19 pandemic has opened up financing opportunities for metals and mining-focused investment firms. It's...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe were fairly stable last week due to falls in demand and production cuts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, ex-works Northern Europe, was ?,?473.00 ($526.65) per tonne on Friday March 27. This was up by ?,?3 per tonne week on week from ?,?470 per tonne on March 20.The increase did not indic...Read More

Export prices for steel rebar and wire rod from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) fell sharply in the week to Monday March 30 amid the lack of demand in almost all markets due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the recent dramatic drop in scrap costs."Buying interest is limited. There are almost no bids," one market source said."There are not many buyers today," another source said. "...Read More

European domestic prices for hot-rolled coil have been fairly stable over the past week due to slow market activity, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday March 30.The sentiment prevailing in the market has been downward, despite that price stability.But Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was ?,?473.13 ($526.79) per tonne on Monday, up from Friday's index a...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 30 that are worth another look.Gerdau has halted price increase attempts in Brazil amid market weakness because of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by local investment bank Ita?? BBA from Sunday March 29.The Covid-19 pandemic has opened up financing opportunities for metals and mining-focused investment firms. It's...Read More