Domestic steel beam prices in the United States slipped in April on weaker demand and price reductions by mills, while import prices edged slightly higher in the face of collapsing demand due to foreign mills resisting price cuts. Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for steel beams 8 x 8-inch, fob mill US fell to $35.25 per hundredweight ($705 per short ton) on Thursday April 30, down by $1.25 (...Read More
A summary of the financial results for Turkey's largest steelmaking group, Erdemir, for January-March 2020.In briefEarnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda)1,068,037,000 Turkish lira ($153.07 million*), down by 38.36% from 1,732,790,000 lira in January-March 2019.Q1 2020 production, salesCrude steel production2.232 million...Read More
The Russian Steel Association has called for equal access to the country's railway infrastructure so that its members can export goods to eastern destinations, according to a local news report published earlier this week.Russian Steel unites the country's largest mining and steel companies.It filed an appeal to Russia's first deputy prime minister, Andrei Belousov, asking him to ensure that there...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.The first quarter continued the 2019 trend for China to actively import relatively cheap metallics and semi-finished steel, but can this be sustained? The answer to this question will come down to the price-competitiveness of the products, we believe. One additional incentive to continue to import metallics this year compare...Read More
The Turkish deep-sea scrap import market was almost silent again on Thursday April 30, with mills expecting even lower prices, sources told Fastmarkets.Overall demand for deep-sea scrap remains poor because of lower steel output and weak demand for finished steel, due to the measures put in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak.At least six steelmakers have halted produc...Read More
Prices in the seaborne iron ore market continued to gain ground on Thursday April 30, in line with higher futures curves for steel rebar, but trading activity in the seaborne and Chinese portside markets slowed down before China's Labor Day holiday on May 1.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $84.04 per tonne, up by $1.54 per tonne.62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $86.70 p...Read More
Turkish import prices for steel billet have gone down over the past week on falling imported scrap values and weak demand, sources said on Thursday April 30.After about 10 days of silence in the deep-sea scrap import markets, one Turkish steel mill booked a Baltic Sea cargo on April 27 at $242 per tonne cfr for 26,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) and $252 per tonne cfr for 4,000 tonnes of bonus scrap...Read More
Prices in Southeast Asia's steel billet market sank in the week to Thursday April 30 amid market participants' concerns over a growing number of cargoes being offered in the spot market despite sluggish buying interest, Fastmarkets heard.The regulations imposed to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus continued to weigh on steel demand and prices over the assessment week, sources told Fastmarkets....Read More
China's domestic rebar prices increased slightly on Thursday April 30 on rising futures following the release of the latest steel purchasing managers' index (PMI).Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,410-3,440 yuan ($481-486) per tonne, up by 10 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing) - weekly assessment: 3,390-3,440 yuan per tonne, down by 30 yuan per tonne from last FridayChina's steel PMI for Ap...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Stainless steel prices have fared relatively well over the past couple of months in the face of the threat from the Covid-19 pandemic.In grade-304 material, the most common grade of stainless steel, prices were down by about 5-7% since the turn of the year - not bad, when compared with the falls in prices of other assets so f...Read More
Concerns over the possibility of lower Indonesian stainless steel supply emerged over the past week after local media reported that four people at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park - where a major producer is located - had tested positive for the Covid-19 virus. PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel, which is located in the industrial park, did not issue any new offers this week, sources sai...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. After realizing that working on Wall Street was not like the movies, he moved on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Lieute...Read More
Following yesterday's pimping of Gilead Science's antiviral drug remdesivir on scant and suspect results, it's hard not to start asking the question: Are we being played? We've argued in several past videos that there is ample enough evidence that hydroxychloroquine shows enough promise in reducing/treating covid-19 that further research is merited. Instead, the drug is being demonized in the medi...Read More
Topics:Final trading day in April will go into the record books.Markets ignoring more bad economic data.Jerome Powell flashes the green light to buy gold.US considers suing China and defaulting on debt.Money supply surges by a third of a trillion dollars in a week.Major housing real estate disaster before us.Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity...Read More
***This interview originally aired live on Hedgeye.com on April 15, 2020***Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad...Read More
David Stockman appears on "Spicer & Company" (NewsmaxTV, April 29, 2020)David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and he is the...Read More
"I understand the market has been up a lot since the March low. But what I see in the market is a retracement rally that looks very similar to the first type of rallies that you get in protracted bear markets." Jim Bianco is President and Macro Strategist at Bianco Research, L.L.C. Since 1990 Jim's commentaries have offered a unique perspective on the global economy and financial markets. Unencumb...Read More
Richard is in Thailand where the virus never took hold despite the fact that thousands of Chinese visited prior to the outbreak. Assuming the virus doesn't return, we'll be viewing this as one of the great economic experiments in history. In the US, credit growth has been the great driver of economic expansion. When credit growth slowed or ended, we saw recessions take hold. During 2008-09 credit...Read More
TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:Economic grind continues, market reaction.Analyzing the unthinkable in the oil markets.The manipulation will break towards the upside for metals.Mining stock analysis.Dave Kranzler spent many years working in various Wall Street jobs. After business school, he primarily traded junk bonds for a large bank. Dave graduated from Oberlin College with majors in Economics and Eng...Read More
As we witness the epic collision between deflationary plunges in stock markets and oil vs. unbridled currency dilution by central banks, many long-time earners and savers are filled with dread or confusion about where these forces will leave our our income, our nest-eggs, and our futures.Rick Rule, CEO of Sprott Asset Management, returns to Liberty and Finance / Reluctant Preppers to answer viewer...Read More