Dear RayIncome and Wealth InequalityIs Capitalism the Problem?Boston, New York, and ???"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some...Read More

European steelmakers have called for the European Commission (EC) to review its decision to liberalize its import safeguard measures by increasing quota volumes by 5% each year, Fastmarkets has learned.The current safeguard mechanism will increase the level of tariff-free quotas for each product category by 5% after each year. The first liberalization will take place on July 1, 2019 - the end of t...Read More

South Korean steel majors Posco and Hyundai Steel have both been asked by provincial governments to idle their blast furnaces over pollution levels, market sources told Fastmarkets MB on Tuesday June 4."However, there is no confirmation as to whether both steelmakers will stop their blast furnaces and they...Read More

South32's decision to review the future of its manganese alloy assets comes as little surprise to fellow manganese alloy producers because they are likely to be considering similar options. The review, which could result in the divestment of the assets, reflects a wider predicament affecting alloy producers struggling with historically high ore prices and a subdued market for their own product. So...Read More

The London Metal Exchange has decided on a dispute over when the load-in, load-out (LILO) rule should have been activated, ruling in favor of warehouse company Istim. People familiar with the situation said that the warehousing firm had been found to have acted vigorously and without delay in its dealings with Glencore at its warehouses in Port Klang, Malaysia, following large cancellations of alu...Read More

The temporary truce on tariffs between China and the United States could be over, injecting a new round of uncertainty into the global financial markets and suspending hopes that a resolution to the countries' trade impasse was likely.US President Donald Trump has threatened to raise the tariff on $200 billion-worth of Chinese imports to 25% from 10% by Friday May 10. He also said that the US may...Read More

China's month-on-month new electric vehicles (NEV) sales rebounded in August after month-on-month declines in June and July. The drop in sales between May and June was the first drop since September 2016, but Fastmarkets MB had expected Chinese NEV sales to dip temporarily after the June subsidy changes came into effect because consumers and NEV manufacturers would have to adjust to the new subsid...Read More

Iron ore prices fell sharply in the second half of November after climbing through October, with prices for higher-grade material pioneering the decline.Fastmarkets MB daily benchmark for 65% Fe fines dropped by 22% by Monday November 26 after peaking on October 29. The 62% Fe iron ore index declined by 16% over the period, as some Chinese steelmakers started to seek larger volumes of cheaper ores...Read More

The steel scrap sector in the United States still depends on exports to Turkey, a member of the Fastmarkets research team said during the ferrous session at the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) conference in London.This dependence persists despite the changes in the international markets created by the US' imposition of its Section 232 tariffs on imports of steel products, metals analyst Le...Read More

Seaborne pig iron has become relatively competitive versus ferrous scrap over the past year in most regions, and China is no exception. As the first chart below illustrates, the gap between the MBR's proxy for imported pig iron price in China and the Metal Bulletin's Chinese domestic heavy melt scrap price assessment had shrunk by late 2017. The premium averaged $17 per tonne this year to date, co...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday June 7 that are worth another look.The outlook for continuing Chinese demand for copper scrap from the United States, especially No2 copper (birch/cliff), is cautiously optimistic among market participants. In base metals, the ongoing trade war between the US and China is dampening investor interest in the primary copper ind...Read More

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Gold surged sharply over the past week or so, nearing a major bull-market breakout! Nearly everyone was surprised by this violent awakening, which erupted suddenly as gold languished around year-to-date lows. If this dramatic rally has staying power, gold has good odds of achieving decisive new bull-market highs. That would change everything psychologically, ushering gold and its miners' sto...Read More

Gold surged sharply over the past week or so, nearing a major bull-market breakout! Nearly everyone was surprised by this violent awakening, which erupted suddenly as gold languished around year-to-date lows. If this dramatic rally has staying power, gold has good odds of achieving decisive new bull-market highs. That would change everything psychologically, ushering gold and its miners' sto...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesJun 10, 2019I wrote a new book for resource investors in January of this year called Basic Investing in Resource Stocks. In it I predicted that 2019 would be the year the everything bubble would be popped and our lives changed in a big way for a long time.Should my prediction of doom be accurate, I will go down in the history books as being brilliant. On the other hand, since...Read More

The company raised US$6.5 million in a placement at $1 per share this month for continuing development at Keno Hill, plus general corporate and working capital purposes. It had raised C$3.Read More

I knew it would be a big winner, but not THIS big.Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND), the maker of what is arguably the best-tasting plant-based burger on the market, has had a killer run since going public last month.I actually wrote about this one, right before the IPO. Here's a small snippet of that write-up ...I'll be honest. I've never been a huge fan of veggie burgers.I'll eat them, but with the und...Read More

On Friday I wrote to you explaining the reasons I believe the rise of socialism in America is inevitable.To summarize: Human development is not linear. Progress occurs as ideals swing from one extreme to another. And the pendulum of American ideals has begun swinging away from crony capitalism and toward a form of socialism.Today I want to follow that up by talking with you about exactly the type...Read More

StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was silver, up 3.06 percent, partly on the stronger gold price and on the news that the world's third largest refinery was forced to halt production due to a failed blast furnace. The yellow metal was on fire this week and is heading for its best week in a year. The weekly Bloomberg survey showed that most gold traders and analysts are bullish going...Read More