The London Metal Exchange three-month copper price held on to the previous day's gains during morning trading on Friday May 29, while a second consecutive day of fresh cancellations of metal offered support to LME copper futures. The LME three-month copper price was recently trading at $1,541 per tonne, up $9 per tonne on the previous day's close.Gains were broadly capped across the majority of th...Read More
Broader markets were generally weaker this morning, Friday May 29, while they wait for what United States President Donald Trump's response will be to China's plans to impose national security laws in Hong Kong. The base metals were mixed, however. On the Shanghai Futures Exchange only the lead contract was showing price falls, while most of the base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange were...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.Read More
An overview of the Chinese minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.Read More
Boliden has stopped processing operations at its Kevitsa mine in Finland after a fire broke out overnight and caused "extensive" damage to a crushing plant there, it said on May 29."Production at the concentrating plant is halted until further notice [but] mining production is unaffected," the company said.Kevitsa produced 27,498 tonnes of copper in concentrates, 13,948of nickel in concentrat...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the session ending Friday May 29.China UG2 chrome ore prices rose for a fourth consecutive week - deals at higher prices were reported, reflecting attempts to restock among ferro-chrome producers with low on-hand inventories. Domestic spot ferro-chrome prices stabilized - sentiment further strengthened after Taiyuan Iro...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the session ending Friday May 29.China Domestic prices continued to rise, propelled higher by supply tightness. Market sentiment also improved after many steel mills set their June tender prices for ferro-silicon at 5,900-6,000 yuan ($824-838) per tonne for cargoes...Read More
Chinese copper smelters are still searching for spot raw materials to feed their furnaces while the supply of scrap and domestic blister copper remains crimped. The spot refining charge (RC) for 98-99% blister copper on a cif China basis dropped further to $115-125 per tonne at the end of May, according to Fastmarkets' assessment - the lowest since the monthly price was launched in February 2018.&...Read More
Prices for bulk ferrous scrap cargoes imported into Vietnam have continued to rise over the week ended Friday May 29 but some market sources were unsure whether the upward momentum would persist.Vietnamese scrap prices have performed strongly over the past seven days amid a combination of high demand from the South-east Asian country and Japanese sellers pushing prices upward.The high prices paid...Read More
Ferrous scrap buyers in South Korea have been forced to pay higher prices for Japanese material over the week ended Friday May 29 due to sell-side pressure, market sources have told Fastmarkets.Japanese scrap prices have moved up strongly through the week, with supplies of H2 heavy scrap coming under strain from exporters filling a backlog of existing orders from lower collection volumes.Strong de...Read More
Prices for heavy melting scrap (HMS) imports in Taiwan rose over the week to Friday May 29 due to an ongoing supply deficit, sources said. Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for containerized cargoes of steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20), US material import, cfr main port Taiwan was $233-234 per tonne on Friday, up by $5 per tonne from a day earlier and $2-3 per tonne higher than $230-232 per tonne cfr...Read More
Overcapacity in the aluminium industry is highly unlikely to be erased in the foreseeable future, according to the former head of Europe's largest aluminium producer, Norsk Hydro.Svein Richard Brandtz??g, who was Norsk Hydro chief executive for a decade from 2009, said the market will eventually revert to a more balanced supply-demand picture but that this will take time to emerge. "History shows...Read More
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Big moves in gold and silver.Jerome Powell admits that things are so bad, it's worth the risk of killing us with the cure.Personal income surges by 10.5% as consumer spending declines by 13.6%.Mark Cuban thinks money printers are the economic fountain of youth.Goldman Sachs couldn't care less about Bitcoin.Trump shifts blame from the Federal Reserve to China.Check out The Bubble film: https://theb...Read More
The year 2020 will be one to remember. The COVID-19 pandemic led to the fastest crash in market history. In early March, the TSX Index lost approximately 35% of its value in only a few short weeks, effectively putting an end to the record bull run which began in 2009.The drop was so drastic that several blue chip companies were trading at levels not seen since the 2008 Financial Crisis. A decade&r...Read More
Today's Energy and Capital is a special one. Its author is Bill Lowe. You probably have never heard of him because he retired from public life years ago to focus on the things he really enjoys: 1) outdoor activities, like hunting and hiking in his home state of Montana; and 2) managing his personal portfolio. But Bill is one of the co-founders of Angel Publishing. As a business owner and professi...Read More
In conversation with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable, Jayant Bhandari of Capitalism and Morality offers his take on what the post-COVID-19 world will look like. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Jayant Bhandari, the founder of Capitalism & Morality, and a highly sought-out advisor to institutional investors. Jayant, there are a lot of mixed, contentious emotions regarding C...Read More
Last week, the FOMC released the minutes from its last meeting. What implications do they carry for the gold market? FOMC Finally Acknowledges the Situation As SeriousLast week, the FOMC has published minutes of its meeting from April 28-29. They show that the Fed reassessed the coronavirus economic implications since the previous meeting at which the central banks did not yet grasp the full gravi...Read More
Gold has a solid floor in place and will take off, but silver will outperform...David Brady interviewed on Palisade RadioTom welcomes returning guest and CEO David Brady back to the show. David is a Sprott Money Contributor and a big fan of all things silver.David has recently coined the term "Hyper-Stag-Flation" to describe what we have today. It represents a stagnating economy coupled with risin...Read More