ArcelorMittal Brasil could slightly delay the galvanizing capacity expansion at its Vega do Sul unit as it awaits final approval from the group's board of directors, regional chief executive officer Benjamin Baptista told Fastmarkets on Wednesday August 21.The company is waiting for summer vacations to be over in Europe to present all of the necessary documents to the board, he added. Production i...Read More

Brazilian slab prices remained unchanged during the week ended August 23, amid opposing price signs and few reported deals.Fastmarkets' weekly assessment of steel slab export, fob main port Brazil, remained at $425-435 per tonne fob on August 23, stable from the previous week.Most destinations of Brazilian slab were Canada, Europe and Mexico, sources said. Producers were aiming at prices at least...Read More

China understands the difference between the German mercantilist model of manufacturing and sells to everyone else and the United States which became the largest economy in Continue...Read More

Gold has drawn a lot of attention lately with its recent strong upward swing. But where it goes from here is what must subscribers are asking.Let's look at the driving factors.About 78% of all the gold mined is used for jewelry and industrial applications.The remaining 22% is used in financial applications. Gold, when priced in U.S. dollars, tends to move in the opposite direction to the greenback...Read More

Gold & silver spiked as the "markets" re-opened. Here's why...Gold & silver prices are on the move on Sunday night.Here's a look at the action when the markets opened a short while ago:That's a pretty sweet gap-up, especially silver's move, and that's surely a multi-year intra-day high in gold.Will the cartel get prices back in check?That is to be seen.What is going on?Well, it's trade war related...Read More

RAPAPORT... Stornoway Diamond Corporation has until December 20 to comply with Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) requirements or face a delisting of its common shares. "There can be no assurance that the corporation willsuccessfully regain compliance with the TSX listing requirements within thistime period," the miner explained. "In which case, the corporation's commonshares and convertible debentures...Read More

RAPAPORT... The organizers of the Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair have assured the trade that the September show will take place as planned, and denied claims that exhibitors are requesting it be postponed due to ongoing protests in the municipality. "We have not received demands for cancellation as stated ina joint letter recently sent to us by three trade associations," Celine Lau, director o...Read More

RAPAPORT... Graff has unveiled the polished pink diamond it cut from the13.33-carat rough it purchased from Gem Diamonds in March. The jeweler set the pear-shaped, 5.63-carat, fancy-vivid-purplish-pinkstone in a rose-gold ring. Two pear-shaped shoulder stones, also cut from thesame rough, flank the center diamond. Gem Diamonds recovered the rough - the largest pink it hasunearthed since 2011 - fr...Read More

RAPAPORT... Alrosa will offer more than 200 polished coloreddiamonds at the Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair in September. The True Colors auction will feature a pear-cut, 18.07-carat, intense-yellow diamond which is internally flawless, the Russia-based miner saidFriday. An emerald-cut, 6.78-carat, vivid-yellow diamond, and two pear-cut,vivid-purplish-pink stones are also expected to go under t...Read More

This Overwatch video highlights the match between the New York Excelsior vs Vancouver Titans from Stage 4 Week 4 Day 2 of the Overwatch League Season 2.Subscribe to us! https://goo.gl/OvCljlJoin our Discord community: https://discord.gg/tSymunhBecome a Member To support our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6dI...Check our second channel Akshon Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/c/akshongami...Read More

Brendan Fraser -- best known for playing 'Rick O'Connell' in "The Mummy" trilogy (1999, 2001 and 2008) and many other leading roles in comedy and fantasy films -- reflects on his career, discusses his new DC Universe television series "Doom Patrol" (2019-), shares behind-the-scenes stories and answers fan questions at his 2019 Fan Expo Canada Q&A panel in Toronto.Brendan James Fraser (born Decembe...Read More

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I explain how ransomware attacks have increased across the United States by a large margin since 2017 when NSA created hacking tools were released to hackers.Read More

Brien Lundin is the editor of the Gold Newsletter and CEO of the New Orleans Investment Conference (Nov 1-4, 2019). In this episode Brien shares regarding why gold is freedom and how gold might be re-instituted as legal currency in America. He addresses whether he foresees the USA entering a recession. Brien also talks about how to play the mania phase of the current gold stock bull market. And he...Read More

Interest rates don't even have to be negative to make a mess in the era of "Secular Stagnation."Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade...Read More

Gold has picked up where it left off on Friday. The safe-haven metal has spiked $20 higher above $1,550 in early Asian trading. It is now near the top-end of the short-term trend channel and the RSI is overbought, but the fundamental drivers of the price advance appear to be accelerating.Silver is also rallying strongly, up 30 cents to $17.70. This represents a gain of 1.7% vs. gold at 1.3%. The s...Read More

RAPAPORT... The organizers of the Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair have assured the trade that the September show will take place as planned, and denied claims that exhibitors are requesting it be postponed due to ongoing protests in the municipality. "We have not received demands for cancellation as stated ina joint letter recently sent to us by three trade associations," Celine Lau, director o...Read More

Alrosa, a world leading diamond miner, will hold its annual True Colors auction of fancy color diamonds for the second time in upcoming September. Alrosa held its first auction for fancy color diamonds in 2018 as part of its strategy to become a recognized, authoritative source for fancy color diamonds. Prospective buyers can view the diamonds during the Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair, from t...Read More

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RAPAPORT... Stornoway Diamond Corporation has until December 20 to comply with Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) requirements or face a delisting of its common shares. "There can be no assurance that the corporation willsuccessfully regain compliance with the TSX listing requirements within thistime period," the miner explained. "In which case, the corporation's commonshares and convertible debentures...Read More