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Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee") has announced completion of functional integration to more than 250 of the world's largest retail destinations, growing revenue-generating retail endpoints above plan.John Abrams, President and CEO of Venzee said, "while achieving integration with so many large retailers is an important milestone for the Venzee...Read More

Vancouver, BC - A2Z Technologies Canada Corp. ("A2Z" or the "Company") (TSXV: AZ) a pioneer in military robotics and innovation in the automotive industry has announced that they have signed a contract and received its first purchase order for $175,000CDN to provide sophisticated software for integration between applications and Point of Sale (POS) for NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a leading enterp...Read More

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A summary of base metals premiums from across the globe for the week to Tuesday January 14.Click on...Read More

Given the right impetus, copper has the best long-term prospects among the base metals complex, which was exhibited by the red metal's price rally in December.Copper prices began to rise on the London Metal Exchange in the run-up to year-end 2019, responding to the first signs of a thaw in the protracted trade war between the United States and China.The copper LME official three-month contrac...Read More

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue the pricing of zinc ingot premiums on a cif India basis.Currently, Fastmarkets prices the following premiums:Zinc SHG min 99.995% ingot premium, cif dp India, $/tonne Zinc SHG min 99.995% ingot premium, cif dup India, $/tonneThe expansion of production capacity by Hindustan Zinc means there is currently no spot market for imported zinc in Ind...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Tuesday January 14 that are worth another look.ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the major long steel producer in Ukraine, has called on the country's government to review its decision to impose an import tariff on rebar and wire rod steel imports from Belarus, referring to evidence of dumping.Nizi International has closed its base metals tradi...Read More

London Metal Exchange copper bulls are turning to the options market to make cautious bets that copper's price will continue its rapid rise into March 2020, Fastmarkets learned.Open interest in March options has spiked and a total of 9,635 lots of call options - equivalent to over 240,000 tonnes of copper - are currently live with strike prices between $6,400 per tonne and $6,600 per tonne.Call op...Read More

The S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones Industrial indexes all pulled back from records as the conditions underscored lingering concern about future progress in negotiations, Bloomberg reported.However Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX200 was in record territory in morning trade and edging towards the 7,000 mark.Australian gold producers were three of the biggest risers at the time of writ...Read More

South African miners reported a fresh wave of buying interest for chrome ore, prompting higher prices. UG2 chrome ore prices rise in China.Chinese alloy prices underpinned by chrome ore strength.Charge chrome prices hold in China.European high carbon ferro-chrome prices under pressure, while low carbon ticks up.US spot market inactive, prices stable. UG2 chrome ore prices surged on Friday January...Read More

Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ended Friday January 10.China The Chinese ferro-silicon spot price remained unchanged for a fourth consecutive week, while demand surged for restocking with the Chinese New Year approaching. Export prices picked up amid the strengthening of Chinese yuan, increased domestic trading activity and limited export avai...Read More

Silicon and bulk alloys producer Ferroglobe has appointed Marco Levi as its chief executive officer, replacing Pedro Larrea, who leaves the company to seek new professional challenges, according to a company statement on Monday January 13. The new chief executive will be in charge of designing a new strategy that will lead the ferro-alloys maker, which has recently moved its headquarters to Madrid...Read More

Turkish steel producers continued to hold back from the deep-sea scrap markets on the second day of the working week because of the soft rebar market and firm scrap prices, sources said on Tuesday January 14.The country's steel producers went through last week with only one deep-sea cargo bought, when a steel mill in the Marmara region booked a European cargo at an average price of $300 per tonne...Read More

Starting in July this year, and for the first time, millions of tonnes of copper and aluminium scrap will be shipped into China not as waste but as merchandise, after the country announced its timetable for the renaming of high-purity non-ferrous scrap as recyclable materials.On Monday January 13, China's State Administration for Market Regulation said that the new specifications for secondary cop...Read More

There will be no significant reduction in China's new energy vehicles (NEV) subsidies in 2020, Miao Wei, minister of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), revealed in a conference on Saturday January 11.The general principle for the policy this year is to stabilize market expectations, guarantee healthy and sustainable development, and build confidence in the NEV industry...Read More

An effort by domestic steelmakers to increase flat-rolled steel prices since late October 2019 has revived the hot-rolled index from multi-year lows, but it is unlikely to help mills to regain the high margins they achieved in 2018, market participants and industry experts told Fastmarkets.Flat-rolled steel mills in the United States have announced five price increases on sheet products in the las...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe remained largely unchanged on Tuesday January 14, but sentiment remains positive, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index domestic, ex-works Northern Europe, was at ?,?442.70 ($492.63) per tonne on Monday January 14, down by 23 cents from ?,?442.93 per tonne on January 13.The index...Read More