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 intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd."- Benjamin GrahamGold looks set to post one of its worst-performing quarters in years.The yellow metal started the year off strong, trading for over $1,900 an ounce. But rising U.S. Treasury yields and a stronger dollar served to depress gold prices over the past several week...Read More

S2 Resources (ASX: S2R) is a greenfields explorer, targeting "company making" precious and base metal discoveries, in mining friendly jurisdictions of Australia and Finland. The Company is building a pipeline of new belt-scale projects and drill-ready prospects, in highly endowed, but under-explored and/or emerging districts. We learned from Matthew Keane, CEO of S2 Resources that in 2020 they exp...Read More

Mark Jarvis, CEO and Director of Giga Metals Corporation (TSX.V: GIGA, FSE: BRR2) aims to be a premier supplier of the key battery metals for electric vehicles: Nickel and Cobalt. They recently released an updated preliminary economic assessment (PEA). The Company's Turnagain Project, located in north central British Columbia, is among the largest undeveloped nickel-cobalt sulfide deposit in the w...Read More

Brazilian slab and hot-rolled coil producer ArcelorMittal Tubar??o expects to resume operations at its hot-strip mill this week, after the equipment was put under maintenance on Monday March 8."ArcelorMittal Tubar??o informs a stoppage occurred in its hot-strip mill on March 8, 2021, with no impact on safety. The equipment is under maintenance, aiming to...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe were largely stable day on day on Monday March 15, supported by a shortage of material in the region, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?791.25 ($945.39) per tonne on Monday March 15, down by just ?,?1.75 per tonne from ?,?793.00 per tonne on Friday March...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view. This month's key North American steel forecast highlights: US hot-rolled coil prices continued to move in line with our forecasts in February, although actual prices again modestly exceeded our forecasts. Domestic HRC prices averaged $1,194 per ton in February, exceeding our forecast price of $1,150 per ton for the month. U...Read More

Just like the rodeo, today's market environment is full of thrills. In the Energy sector, we are seeing small companies eating the lunch of bigger names when it comes to returns. The sector is also confronting climate change, and that is opening up opportunity for investors.The latest Insights: Energy fun and financial disruption (image by Jaimie Harmsen on Unsplash)All that in the latest Insights...Read More

Domestic steel rebar prices in Russia's Central Federal District around Moscow were broadly flat during the week to Monday March 15, but sources expect prices to pick up in the short-term on improving end-user demand.Demand for rebar from key end sector construction has started to recover slowly, supporting a positive outlook, sources told Fastmarkets.But trading activity in the region is subdued,...Read More

The steel trade between the United Arab Emirates and Israel has resumed since the signing of Abraham Accords on August 13, 2020.The Abraham Accords refers to treaties between the UAE, Israel, Bahrain and the United States. Since their signing, the countries have been mutually exporting and importing a variety of products, and trade relations between them were expected to improve in the coming mont...Read More

Glencore has undergone a major restructuring of its leadership teams, with a number of senior departures and new roles for existing department heads.Kenny Ives, Tor Peterson and Nico Paraskevas will leave the company in the coming months, stepping down from their roles as head of nickel, head of coal and head of copper marketing respectively. The trio will stay on for a few months...Read More

Domestic ferrous scrap prices in Germany increased significantly in the month to Monday March 15, supported by the trend in international trading, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for steel scrap No E3 (old thick steel scrap), domestic, delivered mill, Germany, was ?,?360-370 ($430-442) per tonne on March 15, up by ?,?20-30 per tonne from ?,?330-350 per tonne in mid-F...Read More

The price range for rebar imports into Singapore widened during the week to Monday March 15 on steady demand from buyers and lower-priced cargoes from India, sources told Fastmarkets.There was one transaction heard concluded at $685 per tonne cfr Singapore on a theoretical weight basis for a 50,000-tonne cargo from Turkey, and another transaction heard concluded at $675 per tonne cfr Singapore on...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 15 that are worth another look.Brazilian slab and hot-rolled coil producer ArcelorMittal Tubar??o expects to resume operations at its hot-strip mill this week, after the equipment was put under maintenance on Monday March 8.The Aluminium Stewardship...Read More

Brazilian slab and hot-rolled coil producer ArcelorMittal Tubar??o expects to resume operations at its hot-strip mill this week, after the equipment was put under maintenance on Monday March 8."ArcelorMittal Tubar??o informs a stoppage occurred in its hot-strip mill on March 8, 2021, with no impact on safety. The equipment is under maintenance, aiming to...Read More

Never fear more stimulus is on the way. Reddit/Robinhood are getting their checks and don't forget the infrastructure program that's on the way. $4 trillion coming into the market. Very stimulative and inflationary too. Cities and states are having their debts paid off by the government. Is the stimulus uneccesary? Will it be more harmful than beneficial. Lumber, copper, everything is going up. Ma...Read More

Rob Kirby is a financial commentator and former broker who worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. He also worked for 11 years at Prebon Yamane, an international inter-dealer broker of foreign exchange and interest rate products. He spent an additional year at another money/bond broker called Freedom Bond Brokers, then spent two years at Garban Inc.,...Read More

John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. Mr. Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney's James Turk, of The Money Bubble and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It. He spent the 1980's on Wall Street as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990's he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a freq...Read More

Talking Points From This Episode- Physical silver and ETF demand- Energy as the principal market driver.- Cost of mining and the gold/silver ratio.- Bond markets and inflation.- Global supply change risks.Time Stamp References:0:00?EUR< - Intro0:39?EUR< - Silver Demand Strength3:06?EUR< - Overall Metal Demand4:22?EUR< - Major ETF Flows6:58?EUR< - SLV Withdrawals8:14?EUR< - Silver Endgame9:44?EUR<-...Read More

0:00?EUR< Introduction0:45?EUR< Has gold bottomed?11:39?EUR< Powers that be only care about inflation if it affects wages?13:29?EUR< First Majestic Silver acquires NV gold mine18:11?EUR< Still bearish on copper?21:39?EUR< Mining Stock PicksDave Kranzler is the editor of the Mining Stock Journal and returns to the program to discuss whether gold has bottomed and as share some of his current mining...Read More

These manias and the rising long-term interest rates are on a collision course.Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manag...Read More