At Fastmarkets’ Battery Material Conference held in Shanghai last week, there was much focus among participants on how China’s EV policies will support nickel-rich lithium-ion battery demand in medium to long term. Below are some important highlights from this discussion: The halving of China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) subsidies in late March (to 18,000 yuan ($2,680) for EVs with a...Read More
Dip-buying continues to keep LME tin prices fairly stable in the mid-to-high $20,000s. As this delays the still-likely sell-off associated with the beginning of the end of the Indonesian supply bottleneck, we turn our attention this week to the tinplate market, noting highlights from our Galvanized Steel and Tinplate Markets Tracker. Chinese market in transition In China, the tinplate market seems...Read More
Zinc rebounds on positive Chinese data... Zinc prices came under pressure for much of last week as trade jitters and macroeconomic uncertainties dominated risk sentiment. But price weakness was limited by technical support around $2,870 per tonne, before staging an end-of-week rebound to close with a modest $5.50-per-tonne gain on the week in response to positive data from China. ...as new loans a...Read More
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Trading across most of the metals is relatively quiet in early morning on Tuesday April 16 and the market seems to be waiting for fresh direction, which we think means the market is waiting for a US-China trade deal. Before that, today’s ZEW and US industrial production data may provide direction, as too will tomorrow’s Chinese GDP data. Base metals Trading across the London Me...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 11 points in pre-opening trade. Strength was prompted by a 2.39% gain by the Shanghai Composite Index to 3.253.60. Several North American equity indices are testing their all-time highs this morning. All-time highs are 2,940.91 for the S&P 500 Index, 8,133.30 for the NASDAQ Composite Index, 7,700.56 for the NASDAQ...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxMeanwhile its second-largest shareholder, Waterton Global Resource Management (12.09%), has said "adult supervision is urgently needed" as it continues its pressure for leadership change at the miner.Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxUnderground development began in 2016 and was expected to more than double production when fully ramped up in 2027, with first production originally slated for next year.In its first quarter production results released today, project manager Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO) said the commissioning of Shaft 2 was now expected to be completed in October.Eastern promise fo...Read More
For years, currency analysts have looked for signs of an international monetary "reset" that would diminish the dollar's role as the leading reserve currency and replace it with a substitute agreed upon at some Bretton Woods-style monetary conference.That push has been accelerated by Washington's use of the dollar as a weapon of financial warfare, including the application of sanctions. The U.S. u...Read More
In my 2014 book, The Death of Money, I wrote, "The United States is Japan on a larger scale." That was five years ago.Last week, prominent economist Mohamed A. El-Erian, formerly CEO of PIMCO and now with Allianz, wrote, "With the return of Europe's economic doldrums and signs of a coming growth slowdown in the United States, advanced economies could be at risk of falling into the same kind of lon...Read More
Your monthly Social Security benefit is determined by your age when you begin taking it and your lifetime earnings. Only annual income up to the maximum taxable earnings is counted, which includes money you put into a 401(k) plan. For 2019, that maximum is $132,900.The longer you wait to take the benefits and the more you earned, the bigger the monthly payout. The maximum monthly benefit in 2019 i...Read More
- Former Congressman and 52nd US Secretary of the Interior for the Trump Administration- A geologist from Montana with in-depth mining industry regulatory contacts and experienceELKO, Nevada, April 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Gold Corp. (NASDAQ: USAU), a gold exploration and development company, is pleased to announce that the Honorable Ryan K. Zinke has been appointed to the Board of Directors...Read More
On the surface, the task facing students at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 5 Student Robotics Competition was simple: Design a robot that could navigate obstacles, pick up small objects and then sort the objects into separate containers.Of course, it was anything but, since that robot also had to be fully autonomous."We had to write all the code and then all w...Read More
The Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines in collaboration with the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) recently brought together global experts to discuss analytical approaches to blending political science with the study of energy markets. The roundtable discussions took place April 9 and sought to develop new insights and identify future researc...Read More
Aztec Minerals (TSXV: AZT; US-OTC: AZZTF) recently flew a magnetic and radiometric survey over its Cervantes copper-gold project in Sonora, Mexico, that identified 11 porphyry targets. Follow-up work by the company will target four main targets: California, Estrella, California North and Purisima East.The company says the survey shows the project likely contains multiple porphyry cells along a nor...Read More
A US$565-million funding package brings Cupric Canyon Capital one step closer to turning its Khoemacau project into a major copper and silver mine in northwestern Botswana.The private company has been developing the project over the last six years, drilling 285,000 metres, completing permitting and land access agreements, securing required power and water, and acquiring a previously operated coppe...Read More
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast - Episode 460Recorded April 16, 2019VISIT PETER AT THE LAS VEGAS MONEY SHOWMay 13 - 15, 2019https://conferences.moneyshow.com/mon...Recorded April 16,Tax Day - Yesterday was April 15th - Tax Day, or as my father, Irwin Schiff used to say, "April Fool's Day". My father thought it was April Fool's Day because he believed that that was the day on which Americans basicall...Read More
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