Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday May 10 that are worth another look.Primary aluminium foundry alloy premiums in Europe were steady on Friday May 10 in a quiet market, while bearish sentiment from the automobile industry continued to cap premiums. The premium for silicon 7 aluminium wheel alloys over London Metal Exchange cash prices delivered to the Ruhr region...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
Low-grade manganese ore prices have held relatively steady since rebounding from this year's lows in January, when market participants toned down fears of oversupply in the alloy market. Normally volatile low-grade manganese ore prices have held relatively steady since rebounding from this year's lows in January, after which market participants toned down fears of oversupply in the alloy market. F...Read More
When the London Metal Exchange amended its policies related to its physical delivery network a few years ago, it overlooked one key thing. The issue centers on LME's linked load-in/load-out (LILO) rule, which operates by linking the amount of metal a warehouse loads in to the amount it is obligated to load out for warehouses that have queues of over 50 days.The rule changes were part of package of...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday May 10 that are worth another look.Primary aluminium foundry alloy premiums in Europe were steady on Friday May 10 in a quiet market, while bearish sentiment from the automobile industry continued to cap premiums. The premium for silicon 7 aluminium wheel alloys over London Metal Exchange cash prices delivered to the Ruhr region...Read More
Brian Paes-Braga is a Vancouver financier and entrepreneur, known for his notable work in founding and developing the lithium resource company, Lithium X. The company raised roughly $50 million and just two years after going public was sold to NextView New Energy Lion Hong Kong Limited for $265 million in March 2018.Today, Brian Paes-Braga serves as Principal, Head of Merchant Banking at SAF Group...Read More
Sandstorm Gold (TSX:SSL)(NYSE:SAND) isn’t your everyday mining company. In fact, it doesn’t own any mines at all.Instead, Sandstorm lends money to mining companies in exchange for future production. This model is called metals streaming.The metals streaming business gives Sandstorm direct upside to a mine’s success while protecting Sandstorm from major losses.For years, Sandstor...Read More
Brian Paes-Braga is a Vancouver financier and entrepreneur, known for his notable work in founding and developing the lithium resource company, Lithium X. The company raised roughly $50 million and just two years after going public was sold to NextView New Energy Lion Hong Kong Limited for $265 million in March 2018.Today, Brian Paes-Braga serves as Principal, Head of Merchant Banking at SAF Group...Read More
The junior recently reported samples taken by an arm's length company from potential bulk tonnage targets at the project yielded up to 1,278g/t silver-equivalent.Read More
I had to pay $0.05 for this plastic bag...Freakin' liberals, right?Well, I'm pretty sure this stupid plastic bag that the liberals forced me to buy has been the single best investment I've ever made in terms of percent gains.Let me tell you the story...A few weeks ago, I was down in Washington, D.C. While there I went to a grocery store to buy a snack and something to drink. Finishing up at the se...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was gold, up 0.54 percent. Gold traders ended the week neutral on the price of gold as many are awaiting more details on the trade talks between the U.S. and China, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. The BullionVault gold index measuring the balan...Read More
By: David HaggithSo much for the trade war being "good and easy to win." Let's be honest. Trump has been grinding away on it for almost a year now, and China has barely flinched in its negotiations. On Friday the tariff war became personal because it will now tap your own budget and every business budget in town.If you think Trump's boosting of the amperage means China will settle quickly, you m...Read More
My minimum upside target for the S&P 500 is still 3095, about 7.4% above these levels, and I am sticking with it. A corresponding rally in the Dow Industrials would leave them just shy of 28,000. Let me also mention that last week's nasty selloff would have tripped a 'mechanical' buy signal if the S&Ps had fallen just a little farther. The rally targets are purely technical and go directly aga...Read More
Traders will prefer to be long gold than short gold. I was hoping that sense will prevail in Trump and that a trade deal would be done with China on the weekend. Trump tweets suggest that he has refused to budge and will not budge for the rest of the his term which ends in January 2021. It is very difficult to predict the real long term impact of the US-China trade on China and rest of the wor...Read More
Kent Collier and Sarah Gefter of credit research firm www.reorg.com call in to discuss the latest happenings in distressed debt.3:51 2007, then and now7:16 Taking inventory of the cycle12:51 The J. Crew "trapdoor." Innovation or gimmick?18:02 Deteriorating accounting standards20:38 Issues that might ring the bellJames "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Inter...Read More
If the economy looks so great then why would anyone be worried about it. As John and Andy point out there's lots to worry about and that's why gold prices are breaking $1300 yet again. No doubt, President Trump will pull another rabbit out of a hat with China Trade, but then what? Debt keeps going up and so do entitlements and the demise of social security is just around the corner. And it's not m...Read More
Greg Weldon of Weldon Financial joins Chris Gleason for a sensational interview on how he views the precious metals now and which one he favors over the others. Plus, Greg has some warnings about why a failure to finalize a trade deal with China very soon could be very problematic for the U.S. stock market. So, be sure to stick around for one of our very favorite guests, Greg Weldon, coming up aft...Read More
"We're living in a complete and total farce."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 Mark...Read More
The Swedish government said Monday they would reopen an investigation into a rape allegation against Julian AssangeContinue...Read More
It's a measure of modern financial markets' absurdity that bets on bets on bets have come to seem normal. Maybe acronyms like CLO and CDO make them sound scientific. OrContinue...Read More