Gold _ Silver Spot Gold held support at 1291/90 but below here targets 1286/85, perhaps as far as important head & shoulders neck line support at 1281/80. Sell a little if it looks like we will see a weekly close below here & add to shorts on a break below 1271.Minor resistance at 1300/02 but above 1304 allows a recovery to 1305 & 1308 before another selling opportunity at 1310/11 with...Read More

Citing its near-4% decline from the highs and exhaustion candles beneath its lower Keltner, we highlighted Gold’s potential to mean revert last week. Having rebounded 2.4% from its low, we suspect a corrective top could be in place.   Key points: March tends to be a weak month for gold, looking at its seasonal averages Gold’s performance typically deteriorates throughout Q1 Near-...Read More

Gold futures pulled back below the $1,300-an-ounce level on Thursday, giving up their highest levels of the month, as the U.S. dollar regained its footing and investors appeared to shrug off political turmoil in the U.K. surrounding the country's preparations for exiting from the European Union. Gold for April delivery GCJ9, +0.56% on Comex fell $14.20, or 1.1%, to settle at $1,295.10 an ounce....Read More

Copper continues to capitalize on the narrowing $0.75 per tonne cash-to-March spread contango, while the three-month contract rises to $6,430 per tonne, up $26 per tonne from the $6,404-per-tonne close on March 14.The three-month copper price seems to be ignoring the significant influx of material into Asian LME warehouses on March 15, with 18,905 lots of material traded during the day's session.N...Read More

The copper market in the United States bounced back in trading on the morning of Friday March 15, with a softer dollar and positive data boosting the marketplace.The copper price for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose by 1.95 cents to $2.9110 per lb."While we acknowledge that copper is at present facing macro/fundamentals headwinds, we think copper will s...Read More

Forward cargoes of seaborne coking coal continued to fetch lower prices on Friday March 15 while those for April-laycan shipments held steady.On the Global Coal trading platform, a July-laycan cargo in the branded segment was traded at $196 per tonne fob Australia, while a bid for an April-laycan cargo in the same segment was made at $212.50 per tonne, up $0.50 per tonne from the last bid. The tra...Read More

   •  The precious metal stalled its recent positive momentum near 200-period SMA on the 4-hourly chart and came under some renewed selling pressure on Thursday.    •  The intraday slide dragged the commodity below the key $1300 psychological mark and tested 50% Fibonacci retracement level of the $1280-$1311 latest up-move.    •  Slightly...Read More

China's month-on-month new electric vehicles (NEV) sales rebounded in August after month-on-month declines in June and July. The drop in sales between May and June was the first drop since September 2016, but Fastmarkets MB had expected Chinese NEV sales to dip temporarily after the June subsidy changes came into effect because consumers and NEV manufacturers would have to adjust to the new subsid...Read More

Gold jumped to 4-hour 200-candle moving average (MA) of $1,311 earlier today, as expected, but failed to take out the key hurdle and is currently trading at $1,308.  The hourly chart relative strength index (RSI) has rolled over from the overbought territory, creating lower highs in favor of the bears.  Meanwhile, rejection at the 200-candle MA has strengthened the bearish case put forwa...Read More

Iron ore prices fell sharply in the second half of November after climbing through October, with prices for higher-grade material pioneering the decline.Fastmarkets MB daily benchmark for 65% Fe fines dropped by 22% by Monday November 26 after peaking on October 29. The 62% Fe iron ore index declined by 16% over the period, as some Chinese steelmakers started to seek larger volumes of cheaper ores...Read More

The steel scrap sector in the United States still depends on exports to Turkey, a member of the Fastmarkets research team said during the ferrous session at the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) conference in London.This dependence persists despite the changes in the international markets created by the US' imposition of its Section 232 tariffs on imports of steel products, metals analyst Le...Read More

Key data from the March 15 pricing session in London: Key drivers:  Prices edge lower again in the second half of the week although the midweek drop to low the $14s deters some consumers from buying again, in anticipation of weaker prices. One so-far isolated sale at $13.20 per lb...Read More

Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) reported 2018 income of $394.3 million-a 255.4% jump over 2017's $110.9 million-driven by an increase in gold production and sales from its Oyu Tologi copper-gold mine in Mongolia.Gold production surged 150% year-on-year to 285,000 ounces, while copper production of 159,100 tonnes marked a 1.1% increase over 2017. The income jump was driven by an inc...Read More

* China's refined copper output in January and February rose by 6.3 percent year-on-year to 1.34 million tonnes, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.* Output on a daily basis works out at around 22,712 tonnes, according to Reuters calculations, down 16.1 percent from December's rate of around 27,065 tonnes* The bureau does not typically provide individual monthly numbers for January a...Read More

Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) announced Friday that the $245-milion power station project for its Tanami gold mine in northern Australia had been completed.The world's No.2 gold and copper producer, which has fully owned and operated the mine since 2002, said the project included the installation of two power stations, a 66 kV interconnected power line, and a 450 km natural gas pipeline.Newm...Read More

Poland's Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has lambasted state-controlled miner KGHM (WSE:KGH) for buying the Sierra Gorda copper mine in northern Chile, saying that company has spent more than PLN 19.6 billion (about $5.2 billion) managing the operation and the ore processing plant over the last three years.The Office, which looks into the way the Polish state operates and how it spends public funds, sa...Read More

Indian domestic secondary billet prices have fallen by 900 rupees ($13) per tonne this week with demand for both semi-finished and finished long steel products remaining subdued and inquiries limited.The price for Indian domestic secondary billet, assessed by Fastmarkets on Friday March 15, was 31,300-31,500 rupees ($450-453) per tonne ex-mill. This was down by 900 rupees per tonne compared with l...Read More

Fitch Solutions has predicted that copper prices will rise to an average $6,900 per tonne in 2019 before reaching $7,100 per tonne in 2020, with tight fundamentals and record-low warehousing stocks underpinning the market."Tight fundamentals, underpinned by record-low [London Metal Exchange] stocks and improving market sentiment as the probability of a US-China trade agreement rises have boosted c...Read More

An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More

The copper market in the United States bounced back in trading on the morning of Friday March 15, with a softer dollar and positive data boosting the marketplace.The copper price for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose by 1.95 cents to $2.9110 per lb."While we acknowledge that copper is at present facing macro/fundamentals headwinds, we think copper will s...Read More