ETFC has added 7% in 2020Just one week off the buyout that led to its best day since 2009, E-Trade Financial Corp (NASDAQ:ETFC) is trading modestly higher, up 0.6% at $48.81, despite receiving a downgrade to "market perform" from "outperform" at Raymond James. Yesterday ETFC marked its third-straight loss on the charts, but remains well above its recently supportive 120-day moving average. Year-t...Read More
WEN shared earnings that were in-line with estimatesShares of Wendy's Co (NASDAQ:WEN) are down 2.3% this morning, last seen at $22.42. The fast-food chain forecast a weaker-than-expected full-year outlook, but revealed fourth-quarter earnings that were in-line with estimates. Meanwhile, Wendy's also reported bigger-than-expected capital costs on for the year, as they roll out a new breakfast menu...Read More
Here is what's new today on INK Ultra Money. Canadian Insider Club Ultra members have access to both premium and free content. If you are asked to sign in, select Canadian insider as your subscription website.1. Activist Short-Selling: Uncovering Fraud and the Future - Real VisionCarson Block, CIO of Muddy Waters Capital - an activist short-selling fund, joins Real Vision again to discuss activis...Read More
Lowe's posted Q4 earnings that beat analysts' expectations, but same-store sales and revenue that missed the mark Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW) took its turn in the earnings confessional this morning, and the results are a mixed bag. The home improvement retailer posted fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 94 cents per share, which beat analysts' estimates, but announced $16 billion in revenue...Read More
U.S. stock indexes will try to gain again todayDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are pointing to a positive open for stocks this morning after the historic two-day coronavirus-inspired sell-off. However, traders will likely remain on edge throughout the session, given how quickly equities gave up early morning gains on Tuesday. What's more, President Donald Trump has said he will be holdi...Read More
Copper's performance is often seen as an indicator for stocksStocks continue to pull back with uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus. A pullback may not be a big surprise to those who subscribe to the Dr. Copper theory. Copper is a popular metal in a variety of areas of the economy. Investopedia says "... from homes and factories to electronics and power generation and transmission - demand for...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 25 that are worth another look.European steel producers, represented by regional steel association Eurofer, hope to achieve a further toughening of the region's existing safeguard measures on steel product imports, market sources told Fastmarkets on February 25.The US Midwest aluminium premium reversed a more than nine-mon...Read More
The three-month zinc price on the London Metal Exchange was lower at the close of trading on Tuesday February 25, with the price edging down by 0.3% in a broadly positive trading afternoon, while lead futures topped the base-metals complex.Zinc's outright price on the LME closed at $2,030 per tonne in the afternoon, failing to close in positive territory despite strong turnover throughout the day....Read More
The three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange outperformed its peers across morning trading on Tuesday February 25, with all base metals trading in positive territory, while complex-wide selling pressure that emerged on Monday afternoon continued to ease.Nickel's outright price on the LME was recently seen at $12,640 per tonne on Tuesday morning, up from Monday's closing price on $12,4...Read More
Jack ChanPosted Feb 25, 2020Gold sector as represented by $HUI is on a long-term BUY signal.Long-term signals can last for months and are more suitable for investors.Short-term is on BUY signal. Short-term signals can last for days and weeks and are more suitable for traders.Speculation on gold is at a new high, but what more important is, a new speculative bottom is now established. That will hel...Read More
Manganese ore producer Consolidated Minerals (Consmin) has had to delay shipments to China from Port Hedland in Western Australia as a result of disruption caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) outbreak."Due to the coronavirus, we have struggled to get vessels to take all our February tonnage, so our February [cargoes] will be sailing in March," a spokesman told Fastmarkets on Monday Fe...Read More
Hong Kong's Hang Seng was yesterday's exception, up 0.27%.Futures are pointing to another day of losses."Market participants are becoming resigned to the fact that the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus may extend longer than previously anticipated," IG analyst Kyle Rodda explained in a column piece.China's top economic planner told reporters yesterday the country was making considerable...Read More
Join Fastmarkets' web seminar on what could be in store for the minor metals markets now most stocks formerly held by the Fanya Metal Exchange in China have been sold off in auctions.The whereabouts of minor metal stocks held by the now defunct Fanya Metals Exchange has been a weight on the outlook of minor metals prices and contract negotiations since the exchange collapsed in 2015.Fastmarkets wi...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 25 that are worth another look.European steel producers, represented by regional steel association Eurofer, hope to achieve a further toughening of the region's existing safeguard measures on steel product imports, market sources told Fastmarkets on February 25.The US Midwest aluminium premium reversed a more than nine-mon...Read More
Turkish steel producers maintained their silence in the deep-sea scrap import market, leaving prices unchanged, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday February 25.Steel producers in the country booked eight deep-sea cargoes at rising prices last week, totaling some 250,000 tonnes.With last week's bookings, Turkish imports of scrap so far this month have included 21 deep-sea cargoes adding up to&...Read More
A Pakistani mill that recently made a rare purchase of a bulk cargo of ferrous scrap from the United States West Coast will now likely buy such shipments with greater frequency, according to sources Fastmarkets spoke to.The trade - involving 30,000 tonnes of shredded scrap priced at $306 per tonne cfr Port Qasim - only came to light on Monday February 24, against the background of global economic...Read More
Consolidation across a broad section of markets is underway this morning, Tuesday February 25, while Monday's sell-offs pause as markets adjust to lower prices, but little has changed for the better.Given the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is starting to spread across more countries and indeed major manufacturing countries at that, including Japan, South Korea and Italy, and the full impact of the...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 25 that are worth another look.European steel producers, represented by regional steel association Eurofer, hope to achieve a further toughening of the region's existing safeguard measures on steel product imports, market sources told Fastmarkets on February 25.The US Midwest aluminium premium reversed a more than nine-mon...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern and Southern Europe were fairly stable day on day on Tuesday February 25, sources told Fastmakets.Although a lack of 'workable' import offers and good order books from European mills have been supporting bullish sentiment in the market, market participants have become more concerned with the negative effects that the coronavirus outbreak in Italy mig...Read More
Flat steel import prices in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia fell this week, with buyers waiting to see prices hit bottom before placing orders, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday February 25.Some market participants expected prices to fall because of weak demand, while others said demand could soon improve because stocks are low.UAEChinese hot-rolled coil was on...Read More