Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday May 16 that are worth another look.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were predominantly higher at the close of trading on Thursday May 16, with trade uncertainties broadly priced in while a stronger dollar tempered commodity buying during afternoon trading.Metals trader Glencore has reshuffled its c...Read More
Six key takeaways from the Cobalt Institute's annual conference in Hong Kong on May 15-16, 2019.Cobalt prices likely to oscillate either side of $15 per lbSupplies of cobalt metal remained limited but the upside for prices would be capped as long as the hydroxide market was in a surplus.Prices were expected to fall over the summer due to weaker seasonal demand, before rebounding as they did at the...Read More
Metals trader Glencore has reshuffled its cobalt team, with David Brocas leading the company's cobalt trading since Franck Schulders has gone on sabbatical.The changes took effect in the past few weeks, Glencore told...Read More
British ferro-alloys producer FE Mottram, the biggest producer of ferro-titanium in Europe, intends to restart production in the third quarter of 2019 after a fire damaged its plant in April, according to an industry source.FE Mottram, which is owned by Belgium-based ferro-alloys and metals trader Metraco, stopped production at its plant in Sheffield, northern England, after a furnace exploded on...Read More
The European molybdenum market has continued the downtrend seen late last week and edged down in the first half of the week that began on Monday May 13, although oxide prices remained unchanged.Fastmarkets assessed the price of European ferro-molybdenum, min 65%, in-warehouse Rotterdam, at $28.50-28.85 per kg on May 15, down from the assessment on May 10 of $28.80-29.10 per kg.Few deals for large...Read More
Demand for stainless steel in China's domestic market was steady over the past week, but trade tensions between the country and the United States are starting to show signs of weighing on prices.The Fastmarkets MB domestic price assessment for benchmark 304 stainless cold-rolled coil in the major market of Wuxi was 14,000-14,400 yuan ($2,036-2,094) per tonne including value-added tax for the week...Read More
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The junior resource sector is a people business. In my view, making money consistently in a sector which is fraught with risk and failure, without a doubt, is inextricably linked to the quality of the people who are running the companies with which I am investing.This statement, and statements like it, are very likely the most common answers you will hear from many pundits throughout the industry....Read More
The junior resource sector is a people business. In my view, making money consistently in a sector which is fraught with risk and failure, without a doubt, is inextricably linked to the quality of the people who are running the companies with which I am investing.This statement, and statements like it, are very likely the most common answers you will hear from many pundits throughout the industry....Read More
That's the only way to describe this stock market. It won't end well for the hedge funds whose algos are chasing price momentum nor for the retail daytraders playing the game of "greater fool." Apparently CSCO and WMT's "beat" triggered a multi-hundred point spike in the Dow on Thursday. Funny thing about that. CSCO's one-cent "beat" has been routine since the late 1990's.Walmart also "beat." But...Read More
BlueRock will be using the funds to implement a new mining plan at its Kareevlei mine in South Africa's Kimberley region to increase production and, it hoeps, become cash flow positive.The placing of 937 million ordinary shares at 0.1p per share raised £937,000 before expenses. It included included the issue of one warrant for every one placing share at an exercise price of 0.2p, valid for t...Read More
Imagine ordering a helicopter ride with the ease of paging an Uber. It sounds like something out of The Jetsons. But this German startup has plans to roll out the first flying taxis within just six years.Munich-based Lilium showed off its five-seater all-electric flying taxi prototype this week to what it hopes will be a highly interested future market.The full-scale prototype is powered by 36 all...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 226,361101,82578,759159,444296,627464,564477,211 Change from Prior Reporting Period 40,560-8,5655,69917,36658,19063,62555,324 Traders 18565775157267175 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 53,43140,784517,995 4,33112,63267,956 non reportable positions...Read More
The major gold miners' stocks are drifting sideways with gold, their early-year momentum sapped by the recent stock-market euphoria. But they are more important than ever for prudently diversifying portfolios, a rare sector that surges when stock markets weaken. Their just-reported Q1'19 results reveal how gold miners are faring as a sector, and their current fundamentals are way better th...Read More
By: Richard (Rick) Mills, Ahead of the herd "It's the tail that wags the dog" is defined by Urban Dictionary as a way of persuading a large group of people. The phrase is usually employed in a situation wherein a cause that expects to elicit a certain effect, is in fact reversed. The 1997 film 'Wag the Dog' is about a powerful political strategist who tries to get a fictional president on boar...Read More
By: Peter Schiff, Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific CapitalGeneral George Custer met his doom charging into a battle he thought he could win, against an opponent he did not understand. Based on his views about the fast-emerging trade war with China, it looks to me that Donald Trump, another blonde with a very high opinion of himself, is charging into an economic version of the Little Bigh...Read More
By: Jordan Roy-ByrneAlthough most of the precious metals sector has trended lower in recent months, Gold has held up well. It and the other, weaker components of precious metals got a boost on Monday when China retaliated with tariffs of its own. There has been little follow through since.This begs the question, will a trade war lead to a new bull market in precious metals?The short answer is y...Read More
Bitcoin is on the move again, a venomous snake in the grass. You might expect to find a reasonable explanation for cryptocurrency's sudden, spectacular rise from the dead. Instead, you get only dim-witted speculation that institutional players are starting to warm to it again. Fidelity, for one, reportedly will be buying and selling bitcoin for institutional customers starting in a few weeks. Wh...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold can't get over the 18-week moving average. Concerning..Read More