Turkish long steel export prices have continued to slip over the past week due to limited demand, sources said on Thursday February 28.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for rebar exports out of Turkey on Thursday was $470-480 per tonne fob on an actual weight basis, down from last week's $490-500 per tonne fob.The Turkish producers lowered their offers to...Read More

Steel billet import prices in Egypt have fallen again over the past seven days with demand remaining weak, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday February 28.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet imported into Egypt was $465-470 per tonne cfr on Thursday, down from $480-490 per tonne cfr last week.Billet producers in the CIS region...Read More

Turkish deep-sea scrap prices showed a very slight decrease with the news of a fresh US cargo heard on Thursday February 28.A steel mill in the Izmir region booked a US cargo, comprising 10,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $313 per tonne, 10,000 tonnes of shredded at $318 per tonne...Read More

Physical iron ore prices rose on Thursday February 28 after being soft for a week, in line with gains in the futures and swaps markets.Fastmarkets MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $85.29 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up by $1.75 per tonne.Fastmarkets MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $84.69 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up by $1.75 per tonne.Fastmarkets MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $86.97 per tonne cfr Qin...Read More

Turkish steel billet prices have gone down over the past week in line with the downturn in rebar and scrap values and the limited demand for material, sources said on Thursday February 28.Suppliers in the CIS region have lowered their offers into Turkey to $465-475 per tonne cfr, from last week's $470-475 per tonne levels.But customers in Turkey were not interested at those prices because more aff...Read More

Steel billet import prices in Egypt have fallen again over the past seven days with demand remaining weak, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday February 28.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet imported into Egypt was $465-470 per tonne cfr on Thursday, down from $480-490 per tonne cfr last week.Billet producers in the CIS region...Read More

By: Daniel R. Amerman, CFA If there is a new recession in the next few years, then it is highly likely that the Federal Reserve will take extreme measures in response, with the primary response being to swiftly knock short term interest rates back down to zero percent.For many investors - the combination of recession, heavy-handed Fed interventions, and the return of zero percent interest rate...Read More

Chris Waltzek talks to Dr. Burton Malkiel, author of the investing classic, A Random Walk Down Wall Street Read More

By Avi GilburtThis is probably one of the biggest conundrums investors face in financial markets today. A major report may come out with a very positive bias, yet the market will move in the opposite direction. How many times have you seen this happen?Well, if you have any experience in the financial markets, then it has likely happened to you many times. But, most people simply shrug it off...Read More

By: IRA EPSTEINStock market having trouble. Gold starting to breakout to the downside. Gold = negative and in a downtrend, to negate this gold would need $1335.60:Read More

The live feed from Hanoi has been riveting. Trump and Kim appear to be getting along well. The President pats his counterpart on the back, the dictator smiles. They share a laugh as they walk through a garden. Kim's haircut looks oddly flattering. Everything seems to be going so nicely that one could almost forget that he has at times acted like a madman. As for Trump, he is his usual self, bu...Read More

Export prices for steel billet from Iran narrowed downward over the week ended Wednesday February 27 amid negative sentiment in the global billet market, after declines in the prices for scrap and iron ore raw materials.Iranian billet offers slipped to $400 per tonne fob in the last week of February, compared with the price of $410-420 per tonne fob sought by suppliers in previous weeks.A 40,000-t...Read More

Link to the Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/exit-...Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we ne...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne, Founder of The Daily Gold shares the levels we should be watching as metals investors if the pullback we have all been waiting for is here. As long as gold and stocks limit the downside the bullish argument remains.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold Premium, a pub...Read More

WARNING: This podcast contains profanity and adult contentAlex Jones is a radio show host, filmmaker, and writer. Eddie Bravo is a jiujitsu black belt, music producer, and author.Read More

The enemy has declared war on us, and they don't fight fair. Bix Weir joins SGT Report to discuss.Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com. Bix has dedicated his efforts over the last 15 years to exposing the long term manipulation of the gol...Read More

Max and Stacy discuss the annual newsletter from billionaire investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway. They look at the massive losses Buffett's Berkshire suffered as Heinz-Kraft wrote down tens of billions of dollars in brand equity after austerity had plundered the value. Max and Stacy note the luck of having invested when the US government and the elite were still building the country rath...Read More

Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More

"In the first few years after its introduction, Greece gained hugely from the euro but since 2011 has suffered enormous losses," Continue...Read More

New surveillance technology coming to automobiles will know if you are speeding and record every detail of your journey and it could be headed our way.Continue...Read More