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

An overview of the aerospace materials markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Michael...Read More

Global prices on the key scrap markets have rebounded in the working week to Friday February 12 after Turkey returned to the market to book cargoes at higher prices.Turkey returns to market at higher pricesUS market ends two-week dry spellTaiwanese importers look for material on market reboundIndian prices boosted by Turkey's return to market.TurkeyTurkish mills did not return to the deep-sea mark...Read More

The price of shredded steel scrap imported into India and Pakistan moved up in the week to Friday February 12 with sentiment turning positive, sources have told Fastmarkets.IndiaFastmarkets calculated its steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India, at $415.11 per tonne on Friday, up from $408.73 per tonne one week earlier.Several deals were heard for shredded material at the star...Read More

The price range for UK-origin light iron scrap fell for the fourth week in a row in the period to Friday February 12, with British scrap export prices having been persistently low in the past few weeks.But a market bottom may have been reached because European export prices to the key destination of Turkey recovered late in the week, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday.The consistent fall in the UK...Read More

With Greater China on holiday, base metals trading on the London Metal Exchange has been quiet this morning, Friday February 12, with prices little changed and trading volumes light - but so far prices are holding up in high ground.The outlook for metals demand is strong, but could it be derailed by the global semiconductor shortage?Base metalsThree-month base metals prices on the L...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - SIGMA Lithium Resources Corporation (TSXV: SGMA) (OTC-QB: SGMLF) announced that it has closed its previously announced upsized non-brokered private placement of common shares and has issued 9,545,455 common shares at a price of C$4.40 per share (which is 10% above the initial indicated price) for gross proceeds of C$42.0 million.The Offering book was oversubscribed an...Read More

Brazilian flat steel producer Usiminas estimates that, after recent price increases and including taxes, domestically produced flat steel is sold at a premium of around 10% compared with imported material - a level the company sees as the "ideal" difference between prices of imported and domestically made material."[Our price] in the domestic market is currently within Usiminas' target," commercia...Read More

Kenorland Minerals Ltd (TSX.V KLD) currently holds three projects, where work is being completed under an earn-in agreement from third parties. The Frotet and Chicobi Projects, which are both located in Quebec, Canada, are optioned to Sumitomo Metal Mining Canada Ltd. The Chebistuan Project, also located in Quebec, is optioned to Newmont Mining. The Company also owns 100% of the advanced Tanacross...Read More

Every once in a while, all the pieces fall into place and a new investment sector is born.If you think about Henry Ford and the Model T, you think about precision instruments, the combustion engine, the carburetor, interchangeable parts, the Bessemer process for producing steel, etc...If you consider the iPhone, you think about high-speed mobile; long-lasting batteries; small, fast, and powerful c...Read More

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have fallen by nearly $20 per short ton ($1 per hundredweight) one day after reaching an all-time high, while buyers weighed the risks of purchasing material at these levels.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $58.67 per cwt ($1,173.40 per ton) on Friday February 12, down by 1.61% from $59.63 per cwt on Thursday...Read More

Import prices for flat-rolled steel products edged upward in South America during the week to Friday February 12 with deals settled at prices a little higher than previously, in the absence of Chinese exporters from the market.Offers from China were scarce ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, February 11-17. But some traders were still trying to sell a remainder of April-shipment cargoes from the...Read More

Brazilian rebar prices rose in February after producers questioned whether an increase was sustainable amid a downturn in international markets.Fastmarkets assessed the price of steel reinforcing bar (rebar) domestic monthly, delivered Brazil at 4,720-4,860 Reais ($877-903) per tonne on Friday February 12, up from 4,495-4,575 Reais per tonne on January 8.In late January, steel mills were pushing f...Read More

The prospects for the global long steel market in 2021 remain rather optimistic despite some fluctuations, the International Rebar Producers & Exporters Association (Irepas) said on Wednesday February 10. "2021 looks very likely to be a year of rebound, a year of multilateral boosts to the global resurrection, with less political uncertainty. It is highly likely that demand will be good this year,...Read More

Domestic steel rebar prices in Poland have been broadly stable over the past week, supported by good order books at mills but with price increases expected in March on a rebound in seasonal end-user demand, source told Fastmarkets on Friday February 12.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, exw Poland, was 2,900-2,930 zloty ($781-789) per tonne on Friday,...Read More

The export market for pig iron from the Commonwealth of Independent States was soft during the week to Thursday February 11, but sentiment improved in the middle of the week on stronger scrap. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for high-manganese pig iron, export, fob main port Black Sea, CIS was $495-510 per tonne on Thursday, widening upward from $495-500 per tonne a week before."Buyers are ra...Read More

The import pig iron import market in the United States was firm during the week to Friday February 12 on new bookings of Russian and Brazilian material. Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US was $510 per tonne on Friday, narrowing from $500-520 per tonne a week earlier.One large pig iron buyer purchased a...Read More

Global prices on the key scrap markets have rebounded in the working week to Friday February 12 after Turkey returned to the market to book cargoes at higher prices.Turkey returns to market at higher pricesUS market ends two-week dry spellTaiwanese importers look for material on market reboundIndian prices boosted by Turkey's return to market.TurkeyTurkish mills did not return to the deep-sea mark...Read More

Indian secondary billet prices were supported higher in the week to Friday February 12 by increased demand and a resurgence in prices of finished products. The Indian secondary billet market had been slipping since the second week of January, before rising by around $15 per tonne in the latest assessment period. Fastmarkets' price of steel billet domestic, ex-works India was up by 1,100 rupee...Read More

"I am the central bank," says Stacy Herbert, an early investor in Bitcoin. She tells our Daniela Cambone that, with Bitcoin, "you are your individual sovereignty, not an individual sovereign hanging out with your bar of gold in a tax haven." The popular co-host of the Keiser Report and Orange Pill Podcast continues, "We build and we are headed to Mars when you are part of the bitcoin community; we...Read More

Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with the world's top trends forecaster and publisher of The Trends Journal.Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Tren...Read More