Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

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Over the past six months, the market has essentially stalled. The S&P 500 is at 3,005 now, just about 2.5% higher than it was in April.In that time:We've had the Fed reverse course on interest rates.The trade war with China has escalated.We've careened from one foreign policy blunder to another.We got the Mueller Report, but we're seeing impeachment proceedings over a Ukraine scandal.The manufactu...Read More

Oct 30, 2019 Guest(s): Bruno Kaiser Head of Metals & Mining, Desjardins Passive funds have taken over the entire investment universe, not just the metals and mining industry, and this trend of ETFs and quantitative funds has been responsible for the slowdown of financing activity in the junior mining space, this according to Bruno Kaiser, head of Metals and Mining at Desjardins. "My theory is th...Read More

Oct 30, 2019 Guest(s): Nick Hodge Founder, The Outsider Club Junior gold miners have lagged the bullion for a few key reasons, primarily due to poor investor perception of the sector, this according to Nick Hodge, founder of The Outsider Club. "One, they don't believe the rally. I equate junior investors to beaten dogs, they saw the first ascent in 2016 and that immediately got taken away from t...Read More

The three-month price of lead on the London Metal Exchange was lower at the close of trading on Wednesday October 30, falling by more than 2% against tight forward spreads, while aluminium futures closed at their highest level since September 24.Lead's outright price closed at $2,208 per tonne on Wednesday afternoon, softening from an intraday high of $2,256.50 per tonne. A little more than 3,500...Read More

A summary of London Metal Exchange warrant premiums from across the globe for the week to Wednesday October 30.Please click...Read More

Three-month base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange mostly failed to make gains in the morning session on Wednesday October 30 amid low volumes traded across the complex, with a weaker dollar index, down by 0.04% at 97.65, failing to stimulate investors' appetites.The global macro picture continues to exert a hold over the metals market while United States-China trade tensions rumble on, a...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesOct 30, 2019A couple of months ago I had the privilege of participating on a webcast with U.S. Global Investors’ Frank Holmes. Frank and I go way back—I’ve been writing about his gold funds since I started 321gold several years ago—so you can probably guess that the topic of the webcast was opportunities in gold investing. I found the discussion timely...Read More

Keith WeinerPosted Oct 30, 2019We talk a lot about the falling interest rate, the too-low interest rate, the near-zero interest rate, the zero interest rate, and the negative interest rate. Hat Tip to Switzerland, where Credit Suisse is now going to pay depositors -0.85%. That is, if you lend your francs to this bank, they take some of them every year. Almost 1% of them.A bank deposit comes with a...Read More

Adriatic said the funds would allow it to complete a bankable feasibility study. The funds are being raised by issuing new shares priced at $1 each.Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday October 30 that are worth another look.The GFG Alliance will consolidate all of its steel businesses into one global group named Liberty Steel Group by the end of this year and align them with a strategy for carbon-neutral operations by 2030.Japanese copper producer Pan Pacific Copper (PPC) has offered its Chinese customers co...Read More

Chinese aluminium producer Xinfa Group has material and production lines prepared for restarting operations at its Jiaokou alumina refinery in Shanxi province, market sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday October 30.Xinfa's Jiaokou alumina refinery, which has a 2.8 million-tonne-per-year alumina capacity, was ordered to be closed due an investigation of its chemical leakag...Read More

Tsingshan Group has kept its ferro-chrome tender price for November delivery unchanged at a time when upstream chrome ore prices have been under pressure. The eastern China-headquartered stainless steel mill announced on Wednesday October 30 that its November high carbon ferro-chrome tender price will remain at 6,396 yuan ($906) per tonne, unchanged from October. The latest tender price from Tsing...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold's move yesterday did a lot of damage to the chart, no more uptrend short-term -- rebuilding pattern:Read More

China's imports of cobalt intermediates, including cobalt hydroxide, surged by 24.5% in July-September versus the prior quarter amid extensive procurement from Chinese consumers, who looked to take advantage of falling cobalt raw material prices during the period.China imported 85,571 tonnes of cobalt intermediates in the third quarter of this year, up from the 68,717 tonnes shipped in April-June...Read More

Ferrous scrap prices seem to have hit a bottom this year in North America, but the price spread between raw material costs - especially ferrous scrap for rebar - and the price of steel products is expected to remain at high levels, Gerdau chief executive officer Gustavo Werneck said on Wednesday October 30.According to the executive, at $502 per short ton, the United States' metal spread reached i...Read More

A booking of European scrap by a Turkish steel mill came to light and helped to push up prices on Wednesday October 30, sources told Fastmarkets, with many traders returning to work after a two-day public holiday in Turkey.A steel producer in the Iskenderun region bought a European cargo on Friday comprising 22,500 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $248 per tonne and 2,500 tonnes of bonus for $258 per...Read More

The GFG Alliance will consolidate all of its steel businesses into one global group named Liberty Steel Group by the end of this year and align them with a strategy for carbon-neutral operations by 2030.It claimed this will give the new group 18 million tonnes of rolled steel capacity annually, making it the eighth largest steel producer outside China, with annual sales of approximately $15 billio...Read More