The FDA just gave Amarin's cardiovascular drug, Vascepa, priority reviewShares of the pharmaceutical concern Amarin Corporation plc (NASDAQ:AMRN) are popping, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted priority review to the drugmaker's Vascepa treatment, which reduces cardiovascular risks in patients with high cholesterol. The stock is up 5.8% at $18.00, in response. Since spiking jus...Read More

Equipment maker Paul Wurth will supply two new blast furnaces to Turkish Erdemir Group's plant located in Eregli, northern Turkey, and Isdemir plant located in Iskenderun, southern Turkey, Paul Wurth said last week.In both cases, one completely new furnace will replace an older production unit, Paul Wurth said.The new blast furnace at the Erdemir location will produce 5,000 tonnes per day of hot m...Read More

Bond yields continue to fallStock futures are pointed lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) signaling another triple-digit drop. Trade tensions between the U.S. and China continue to rev up, amid reports that China is set to use rare earth minerals as its next weapon in the trade war. As such, bond yields continue to fall, with traders concerned about an inverted yield curve -- often...Read More

Summer underperformance is dictated by how stocks behave to prior to MayStocks are performing wonderfully this year; the S&P 500 Index (SPX) is on pace for a double-digit percent gain through May, for just the second time since 2000. We are, however, heading into the most bearish part of the year. The next three months, June through August, is the only three-month stretch to average a loss over th...Read More

Revenues at Ukrainian steelmaker Metinvest were down in January-March 2019 mainly due to lower sales prices in the metallurgical sector, the company said on Friday May 24.In the first quarter of 2019, Metinvest's consolidated revenues decreased by 5% year-on-year to $2.86 billion, primarily due to the sales prices of steel products and pig iron being on a global downtrend, and to lower resale volu...Read More

Markets were decisively in "risk-off" mode last week. Following weak manufacturing news last Thursday, the yield on the 10-year Treasury sunk to its lowest level since October 2017. The spread between the 10-year yield and three-month yield, in fact, inverted once again, with the shorter-term bond yield higher by 6 basis points. As such, the "boring" yet mostly reliable utilities sector rotated...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold on the August contract now in focus - higher highs, higher lows. Support around $1270 area, if break $1277.50. If a bear trap occurs, next few days gold would need to break $1306-1309:Read More

By: Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsLast week, we wrote about the impossibility of China nuking the Treasury bond market. Really, this is not about China but mostly about the nature of the dollar and the structure of the monetary system. We showed that there are a whole host of problems with the idea of selling a trillion dollars of Treasurys:Yuan holders are selling yuan to buy dollars, PBOC can'...Read More

By: Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. The fear trade for gold continues to gain fundamental strength. The technical picture is also solid. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge. Gold is poised for significant upside action in the second half of this year. 2. A large bull wedge is in play as institutional investors become more concerned about the slowing global...Read More

With government bond yields around the world near multi-year lows, U.S. stocks are in a dither. Should they take a bold leap to new all-time highs, defying mounting expectations of a global economic slowdown? Or should they instead fall to a more sustainable, cruising altitude? My own technical outlooks suggests they could do both: first with a rally of about 9% that fulfills a 3095 target in...Read More

The UK's Insolvency Service has made contact "with more than 80 potential trade purchasers" interested in buying troubled UK long steel producer British Steel, it said on Tuesday May 28.Sixty of the potential bidders have been sent non-disclosure agreements, with official expressions of interest due by early June, the UK's Official Receiver, part of the UK's Insolvency Service, said.British Steel...Read More

An overview of the noble alloys markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil (HRC) in the EU have been stable over the past week while steelmakers sought higher prices and buyers resisted any rises, market sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday May 29.Some European flat steel producers, including ArcelorMittal and Marcegaglia, have increased their official offers of HRC while others have stopped giving additional discounts to buyers."If m...Read More

The three-month tin price on the London Metal Exchange decreased by more than 2% at the close of trading on Wednesday May 29, with volumes traded reaching their highest level since 2017 while spread tightness in the metal's forward curve began to ease.Some 850 lots of tin were exchanged by the close on Wednesday afternoon, with tin's three-month price dipping 2.6% from an intraday high of $19,215...Read More

An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday May 29 that are worth another look.The South African Transport and Allied Workers' Union was due to start a country-wide port strike at 17.30 local time on Wednesday May 29. Although the union claimed the action will bring South Africa's economy "to a standstill," manganese and chrome market sources said it was too early...Read More

German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp is in talks with the chief executive officer of its steel division, Andreas Goss, about his future, following news of the likely failure of its planned European flat steel joint venture with Tata Steel Europe."Since the joint venture with Tata Steel cannot be established, the task now is to make ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe fit for the future. In this context, talks are...Read More

With the ratio at 90, not understanding the FREE GOLD to be made is literally leaving money on the table. Here's the explanation as fast as possible...Editor's note - In today's live-stream, in addition to explaining the opportunity for free gold by taking advantage of the gold-to-silver ratio arbitrage, we discussed currency manipulation, the trade wars, the upcoming US recession, the bond market...Read More

The three-month tin price on the London Metal Exchange decreased by more than 2% at the close of trading on Wednesday May 29, with volumes traded reaching their highest level since 2017 while spread tightness in the metal's forward curve began to ease.Some 850 lots of tin were exchanged by the close on Wednesday afternoon, with tin's three-month price dipping 2.6% from an intraday high of $19,215...Read More

A summary of London Metal Exchange warrant premiums from across the globe for the week to Wednesday May 29.Please click...Read More