Import prices for stainless steel in East Asia have declined over the week ended on May 22 because of limited buying interest amid the heightened trade tensions between China and the United States.China declared that it would impose duties on $60 billion worth of US goods from June 1 in retaliation to US president Donald Trump's announcement that the US would raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of...Read More
European Metal Recycling (EMR) has sold parts of specialty scrap recycler Metal & Waste Recycling (M&W) to UK-based Recycling Lives following a competition inquiry. As part of the transaction, the two London-based sites of M&W will be retained by EMR. The sale will complete on Thursday May 30, EMR said. The disposal comes following an intervention by...Read More
The following Fastmarkets UK non-ferrous scrap and foundry ingot prices changed on Wednesday May 22:Aluminium scrapBaled old rolled: ?720-740 per tonne from ?730-750Commercial cast: ?750-780 per tonne from ?750-800Group 7 turnings: ?430-450 per tonne...Read More
Germany's Aurubis has agreed to acquire copper-tin recycler Metallo Group in a ?,?380 million ($424 million) share purchase deal, it said on Wednesday May 22.Fastmarkets reported in February that TowerBrook Capital Partners, Metallo's private equity owner, was close to agreeing a sale of the company, which operates plants in Belgium and...Read More
A decline in output from the automotive market in Europe has negatively affected demand in the vanadium and ferro-chrome markets, with prices for both materials falling to multi-month lows.From January to April 2019, demand for new cars in the European Union decreased by 2.6% year on year to 5.3 million units registered in total, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA...Read More
Young, new investors, you have time on your side.This is a very important factor to consider when choosing the right stocks for your RRSP, as the patience that this affords you is needed when considering investing in an undervalued stock in a cyclical industry.Here I would like to present to you a base metals stock that has underperformed, but that is now really trading at depressed valuations, Hu...Read More
While most of the attention is on mega-miners like Barrick Gold and Newmont Goldcorp, there are dozens of other options to choose from, some with especially promising futures.Plus, by investing in gold stocks, you diversify your portfolio into non-correlated assets. That means if the market drops, your gold stocks could rise.If you’re looking to diversify your portfolio and want to find the...Read More
The famous investor Peter Lynch once said, "Insiders might sell their shares for any number of reasons, but they buy them for only one: they think the price will rise." This is certainly a theory that seems to hold water, and with this maxim in mind, let us turn our attention to a few higher quality stocks on the TSX index that have recently seen a fair amount of insider buying.Rogers Communicatio...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesMay 23, 2019I firstwrote about Viva Gold exactly a year ago. The price of gold was about $1300 and the price of a share of Viva was about $.32. Now gold is $1280 and Viva is now at $.31. The company has an interesting story and while the price of the shares and gold hasn’t done much lately, the company has.Go back and reread what I wrote a year ago. Basically the Tonopah...Read More
Major primary silver producer Pan American Silver's (TSX: PAAS) stake in the junior has increased from about 12% to 16.85% on a non-diluted basis.Read More
$1.5 trillion.Collectively, this is what more than 44 million student loan borrowers owe.But don't worry, because there's a plan to eliminate this debt.The plan is simple and is picking up a lot of support on social media.In fact, Senator Elizabeth Warren is making it a keystone of her campaign platform.The solution for all those folks with student debt?Just don't pay it.Yeah, that's pretty much t...Read More
In an earlier post, I gave you a sneak preview of my interview with Chris Powell, secretary/treasurer at Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA). For 20 years now, Chris and others at GATA have made it their mission to expose collusion by international financial institutions to control the price and supply of gold.Below are highlights from my interview with Chris. I have to say that during much...Read More
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By Avi GilburtPease note: This article was originally posted on FATRADER.com on Thursday May 22 before the breakout in bonds.I have written many times about how the Fed follows the market and does not lead it. And, we are about to see yet another example of history's lessons.For those that followed our work over the years, you would know that we called for a top to the bond market on June...Read More
[Jim Grant is an old-school observer of this economic age and one of its most brilliant commentators. Following is the speech he gave in accepting the 2019 Bradley Prize, which recognizes those who have helped further the principles and institutions of American exceptionalism. RA]Ladies and gentlemen, it's a blemish on the age that so many of us know the name of the Federal Reserve chairman. In...Read More
In the most current "Global financial Stability Report" the IMF (International Monetary Fund) examined the vulnerabilities In a Maturing Credit Cycle" which is really a discussion on the end stage of the currency fiat money financial system. Like every aggressive disease, if you don't make the life style changes that have a chance to reverse the disease, the most likely outcome is the death of the...Read More
Jason talks about the Euro Dollar, Jeff Snider's Euro Dollar University on Macro Voices, currency swaps, QE and China. Basically all of the new liquidity pumps installed since 2008 because "it's all about liquidity."Jason Burack is an investor, entrepreneur, financial historian, Austrian School economist, and contrarian. Jason co-founded the startup financial education company Wall St for Main St,...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
The worst fears of Julian Assange's legal team have just been realized. Just as Wikileaks' editor in chief anticipated, theContinue...Read More
1:12 Unicorns: Where's the beef?11:06 This Compass points away from the profits15:38 European credit, a bird's-eye view23:02 Covenant erosion on either side of the Atlantic29:33 Information asymmetry and liquidity in the secondary marketJames "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is th...Read More