The price of ferrous scrap imported into India was broadly stable in a lackluster market this week, due to ongoing global fears over the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and the linked rise in container freight rates, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday February 28.Fastmarkets calculated the steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India, at $305.66 per tonne on Friday, up...Read More

The inter-merchant spot market for light iron scrap in the UK was flat in the week ended Friday February 28, extending a period of price stability this month against a recovery in European export prices and with major British shredders seeking steady supplies, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant,...Read More

Trading activity in the Commonwealth of Independent States export billet market was limited in the week to Friday February 28, as most market participants took a wait-and-see position to assess the situation in the global market.Lack of demand for finished long steel products in the customers' markets, stabilization of import scrap prices in the bellwether Turkish market, and dampened sentiment in...Read More

For Part 1 of this series, CLICK HEREHow serious could coronavirus get? Will it decimate world economies, or is this just a short term blip? Is it the virus to blame for the recent market action, or the fact that the world economies have been balanced on a razor's edge for a decade? Find the answers to all of the above in today's update with Mike Maloney and Chris Martenson of PeakProsperity.comMi...Read More

Eric Sprott discusses the devastating impact the coronavirus is having on the global markets, including for now the precious metals and the mining shares.Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric es...Read More

Just a few months after putting the Fed on hold, Chairman Powell is once again under pressure from the markets to take action. Jim Grant, founder and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, joins "Squawk Box" to discuss.James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most...Read More

- Dow down 404% with a record 1200 point drop.- Coronavirus damage to the market cannot be undone- Major discounts in the gold mining stocks- Coronavirus task force is more like a plunge protection team for the stock market- Fed's bullets may no longer work against superman bubble- I have a PR problem in PRPeter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity,...Read More

Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. Read More

Brazilian slab export prices increased during the week to Friday February 28, with recent deals concluded at higher levels and a seasonal pick-up in the market.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel slab export, fob main port Brazil rose to $460-475 per tonne on Friday from $450-460 per tonne a week earlier.A series of deals to the United States concluded at $470-475 per tonne fob, ac...Read More

In yet more absurdity and confirmation that Edward Snowden was never an "enemy of the state" - as top intelligence officials and some congressional leaders have charged for years - it's been revealed that the Continue...Read More

Greg Weldon breaks down the market fallout still ahead of us as a result of the coronavirus, why gold and silver won't be immune to the selloff that will continue to take place in all markets. Even though it could present a fantastic opportunity for precious metals investors. Gregory Weldon is CEO of Weldon Financial and Editor of the influential newsletters "Weldon's Money Monitor," the "Commodit...Read More

If you want to know why things are screwed up, take a good look at your family (not mine). The corona virus could be a pandemic, but Gerald thinks not. So far the mortality rate has been relatively low. Just like the weatherman likes to panic the public at the first sign of a hurricane, so to with our public health officials. Why believe one word that comes out of any government. They're lying. So...Read More

Is the January Effect dead? Is it now the February Effect? After Tesla nearly hit $1000 per share, it's now fallen almost 20 percent. Global trade contracted in 2019. Perhaps the world economy was already declining and this is just the final chapter of the stock market's long extended bull market. Passive investing is the dominant form of investing, whatever happened to stock pickers? And the debt...Read More

"I wish, again, to express my closeness to those who are ill with coronavirus and to health care workers who are caring for them." Continue...Read More

The market is now demanding almost 4 rate-cuts this year - a stunning example of the desperation for monetary policy mavens to save the world through easy money... and maintain the 'buy the dip' strategy that a generation of money managers has become conditioned to.Continue...Read More

A great many systems that are assumed to be robust are actually fragile. Exhibit #1 is the global financial system, of course, but Exhibit #2 may well be the healthcare system globally and in the U.S.Continue...Read More

Gold is being slammed lower despite a massive stock market sell-off.Continue...Read More

In short, the baby is being thrown out with the bath water. Continue...Read More

Prices in Southeast Asia's steel billet market continued to face multiple headwinds in the week to Friday February 28, despite the sustained uptrend in the bellwether Turkish ferrous scrap import market. Many buyers had replenished their inventories previously or expect the rise in scrap prices to be unsustainable, leading to sluggish demand, a trader in the Philippines said.Ferrous scrap prices i...Read More

A surge in Chinese high-carbon ferro-chrome production last year led to a jump in buying interest for chrome ore, resulting in a significant build-up of ore inventories in the country that is dampening market sentiment. At the same time, the increased output among Chinese ferro-chrome smelters is exceeding demand from the downstream stainless steel sector and is putting pressure on China's market...Read More