"$XOG - Extraction Oil & Gas' (XOG) CEO Matt Owens on Q4 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript. https://t.co/SlxNhV9rVN #trading #business #stocks"Read full newsRead More

"$NEWT $NEWTI $NEWTL - Newtek Business Services Corp. 2019 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation. https://t.co/dxtSbHDMI8 #trading #investing #stocks"Read full newsRead More

Ontario premier Doug Ford and Greg Rickford, minister of Northern Development and Mines and Indigenous Affairs were at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention (PDAC) this week to announce a new agreement with two First Nations in the Ring of Fire to plan and develop a north-south road into the remote region.The Northern Road Link, an all-season road that would connect the M...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday March 5 that are worth another look.Ukrainian steelmaker Metinvest will increase its hot-rolled coil output once it finishes testing a new rolling line at its Ilyich Iron & Steel Works at Mariupol, chief executive officer Yuriy Ryzhenkov told Fastmarkets this week.China Zhongwang holdings - the largest aluminium extrusion company...Read More

The three-month price of zinc on the London Metal Exchange was higher at the close of trading on Thursday March 5, breaching nearby resistance at the $2,000 per tonne level, while tin recorded its first close above $17,000 per tonne since January 24.Zinc's outright price on the LME closed at $2,011 per tonne on Thursday afternoon, while just over 9,000 lots were traded over the day. This was a mod...Read More

Soci?(C)t?(C) le Nickel will halt operations at its Thio nickel mine in New Caledonia to protect the site and its employees while fresh industrial action continues to jeopardise already-embattled operations, the company said on Thursday March 5."Following a series of blockades over the past month and a half, I can confirm that all activities at Thio mine will be suspended to protect both our emplo...Read More

Keith WeinerPosted Mar 5, 2020The big news this week was the drop in the prices of the metals (though we believe that it is the dollar which is going up), $57 and $1.81 respectively.Of course, when the price drops the injured goldbugs come out. We have written the authoritative debunking of the gold and silver price suppression conspiracyhere.We provide both the scientific theory and the data. So...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday March 5 that are worth another look.Ukrainian steelmaker Metinvest will increase its hot-rolled coil output once it finishes testing a new rolling line at its Ilyich Iron & Steel Works at Mariupol, chief executive officer Yuriy Ryzhenkov told Fastmarkets this week.China Zhongwang holdings - the largest aluminium extrusion company...Read More

Market participants expect to see a decline in the monthly tender price offered by major Chinese stainless mills for March delivery of domestic high-carbon ferro-chrome when the tenders are officially announced in the coming days. Fastmarkets examines the reasons behind this expectation and discusses how smelters might respond to the lower tenders.It is important to note that the tender prices ann...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday March 5 that are worth another look.Ukrainian steelmaker Metinvest will increase its hot-rolled coil output once it finishes testing a new rolling line at its Ilyich Iron & Steel Works at Mariupol, chief executive officer Yuriy Ryzhenkov told Fastmarkets this week.China Zhongwang holdings - the largest aluminium extrusion company...Read More

Turkish steel mills remained out of deep-sea markets on Thursday March 5, with no new bookings following a standoff between mills and suppliers, sources told Fastmarkets. Turkish steel mills continued to hold off on booking cargoes and sources told Fastmarkets they did not expect to hear any new deals this week. The current stalemate was because US suppliers were unwilling to drop their export pri...Read More

Broad-based government action to lower interest rates and make money available to the markets have helped underpin the financial system and confidence, and that has led to some risk-on in some sectors this morning, Thursday March 5. Following on from the United States Federal Reserve's emergency 50-basis-point rate cut on Tuesday, Wednesday saw the US House of Representatives approve an emergency...Read More

Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per tonne on an ex-works China basis. Delivered prices are netted back. Fastmarkets prices Click here for Fastmarkets price assessment for lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, spot price range exw China, yuan/tonne. Fastmarkets lith...Read More

Weakness in cobalt metal prices along with growing concerns of disruptions to downstream battery operations in South Korea amid an outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) are weighing heavily on the Chinese cobalt sulfate market.Fastmarkets' price assessment for cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China was 53,000-55,000 yuan ($7,615-7,903) per tonne on Wednesday March 4, a drop of 2,000 yuan per...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday March 5 that are worth another look.Ukrainian steelmaker Metinvest will increase its hot-rolled coil output once it finishes testing a new rolling line at its Ilyich Iron & Steel Works at Mariupol, chief executive officer Yuriy Ryzhenkov told Fastmarkets this week.China Zhongwang holdings - the largest aluminium extrusion company...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe have been stable, supported by a lack of competitive import offers and good order books at domestic steelmakers, market sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday March 5.Market sources believed that prices would remain stable at least during the coming week, although there were risks in the market related to effects of the outbreak of 2019-nCoV cor...Read More

A summary of the financial performance of Brazilian steel and iron-ore producer Companhia Sider??rgica Nacional (CSN) in the fourth-quarter and full-year 2019, as reported on Wednesday March 4.In brief CSN's slab output was significantly lower throughout 2019 while its blast furnace (BF) No3 was idled for revamp work over more than three months until late October. Steel sales volumes were down in...Read More

Spot prices for steel reinforcing bar in the United States have softened on reports of lower transaction prices while market sentiment has shifted into more neutral territory, Fastmarkets has learned. Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), fob mill US at $30.50-31.50 per hundredweight ($610-630 per short ton) on Wednesday March 4, down by 1.6% from $31-32 per cwt in the...Read More

Turkish rebar prices have decreased slightly over the past week, while demand for material was slow due to uncertainty about the stability of the market, sources said on Thursday March 5.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, exw Turkey, was 3,150-3,180 Turkish lira ($516-521) per tonne on Thursday, down from 3,180-3,230 lira per tonne last week.The domes...Read More

The Turkish long steel export markets have been almost silent over the past week with limited demand in the major outlets, sources said on Thursday March 5.The steel mills in Turkey offered rebar for export at $435-445 per tonne fob on an actual weight basis, while bids for material were heard around $430 per tonne.There were no significant export sales heard.The Turkish market was slow because ma...Read More