Oil prices are poised for a third straight gainDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are struggling for direction today, after the big-cap index logged major gains in Monday's trading. There's plenty for traders to digest today, including March auto sales data and a slimmer-than-expected 1.6% drop in durable goods orders from February -- marking their first decline in four months. Additional...Read More
TNX just bottomed out near the site of two historically significant moving averagesStocks fell right alongside bond yields in the middle of last week, as fresh concerns over the global economy dominated headlines. The continued cascade in the 10-year Treasury note yield followed the previous week's drop in this metric below its 3-month counterpart, which many in the financial media seized upon as...Read More
A simple way to stop picking losers, and start cashing in like Wall Street's elite.Most traders would never believe that 9 out of 10 trades could be winners.But while it may sound impossible, thanks to a research breakthrough, it may not be as far-fetched as many think.JPMorgan's trading desk produced a 99.52% win rate from 2013 through 2017. That includes 2 straight years without a losing day....Read More
Russian aluminium producer Rusal is again shipping fresh primary aluminium to the United States and Europe following the removal of sanctions against the company in January, according to chief executive Evgenii Nikitin, Rusal's press office told Fastmarkets on Tuesday April 2."The volume [of supplies to Europe and the US] has been fully restored on aluminium. It has not been resumed on alloys, tho...Read More
Nickel was the standout performer among base metals in trading on the London Metal Exchange on Tuesday April 2, with an increase of $35 per tonne making it the only base metal not to show a fall.Tin was one of the worst performers, with its price going down by $220 per tonne to $21,200 per tonne in Tuesday trading.The price of lead fell by $20.50 per tonne to $1,990.50 per tonne, making it one of...Read More
By: Keith WeinerA number of commentators have predicted that the rules of the Basel III bank regulations will cause gold to skyrocket (no, this article is not about our view that gold does not go up, that it's the dollar going down, that the lighthouse does not go up, it's the sinking ship going down in the storm).Will it? It would be easy to say as with all of their other predictions of gold...Read More
By: Stewart Thomson 1. There's a time for gold stocks to rally... and a time for consolidation and retracement. Please click here now. We have joy, we have fun, we have gold price seasonality in the sun?2. To view seasonality on the daily gold chart, please click here now. Double-click to enlarge.3. The COMEX price of gold is determined mainly by commercial bank traders an...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAStop me if you've heard this before. Precious Metals disappointed again.The miners were leading the metals but the metals broke down from bear flag patterns and that took the miners lower, suggesting an interim top is in place.The technicals suggest weakness could be ahead for the sector but the fundamentals are finally turning bullish.Before we get to fundamentals, let...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold bias is down, bouncing around here:Read More
The slides for the PowerPoint presentation accompanying these remarks can be found here:http://gata.org/files/GATA-HongKong-Slides-04-02-2019.pdf* * *[SLIDE 1: Introduction]Remarks by Chris Powell, Secretary/TreasurerGold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.Mines and Money Asia ConferenceHong Kong Convention and Exhibition CentreTuesday, April 2, 2019Mining Investment Asia ConferenceInterContinental...Read More
The timing of Lyft's IPO last week could not have been better for Wall Street insiders, since they will have an opportunity to unload their shares into a veritable orgy of greed and ignorance. The stock market looks unstoppable at the moment, and it is making Lyft's $24 billion valuation seem somehow less absurd. Just four months ago, when shares were in the throes of what many of us mistook fo...Read More
US-China trade deal will only a temporary stop gap fix for global economy. Eurozone wants greater access to China. China will try to balance US and Eurozone as it will never want its large population to be used as a dumping ground. The trade between USA-China and Eurozone-China are not addressing long term key thorny trade issues. American politicians and Eurozone politicians want to use China f...Read More
Fastmarkets has corrected its assessment of the premium for aluminium P1020, fca South Korea, duty-free, which was published incorrectly on Tuesday April 2 due to an error.The premium for P1020 in South Korea was incorrectly given as $110-130 per tonne. The correct figure was $115-135 per tonne, unchanged from the previous assessment on March 26. This was correctly displayed in the pricing rationa...Read More
The next financial bubble burst could be so massive, it even takes out gold. One economist is making a very bold prediction.This man says that the colossal financial bubble that exists in today's economy is stretching closer and closer to its breaking point.And when it does pop -- soon, very soon -- it's not only going to take out the entire stock market... it'll absolutely crush other assets too....Read More
The prices for flat steel products imported into the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have increased over the past week, with levels of demand remaining low but consistent, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday April 2.Demand among end-users has been weak, so buyers were unwilling to place orders for large tonnages, sources told Fastmarkets.UAEChina-origin hot-rolled coil (HRC) was on offer to the UAE...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Tuesday April 2 that are worth another look.China's threshold for electric vehicles to receive subsidies in 2019 has been increased again while the value of subsidies has been cut sharply, which was expected by the majority of market participants who are now cautiously checking the resulting impact on the battery supply chain....Read More
By Barani KrishnanInvesting.com - The good news for gold bugs is there's always some news on economic uncertainty out there to keep the yellow metal from collapsing.The bad news is there hasn't been enough news of economic uncertainty lately to push prices back above the key $1,300 level.Bullion and futures of gold rose on Tuesday as latest U.S. data renewed worries about growth in the world's lar...Read More
Hermes Belous Freire left his role as sales account manager for cobalt products at Norilsk Nickel on Monday April 1, Fastmarkets understands. Cobalt sales will be handled by Norilsk's nickel...Read More
The threshold for electric vehicles (EVs) to receive subsidies in 2019 has been increased again while the value of subsidies has been cut sharply, which was expected by the majority of market participants who are now cautiously checking the resulting impact on the battery supply chain.Subsidies for EVs with a driving range below 250km will be phased out after a transitional period between March 26...Read More
Kirkland Lake Gold posted revenues of $280.32 million for the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to year-ago revenues of $212.36 million.Simple: I like Kirkland Lake Gold mainly because the company owns two outstanding mines that guarantee a steady success at least for the next three years.I believe that Kirkland Lake Gold qualifies as a long-term investment due to its excellent balance sheet and i...Read More