Indian local secondary billet prices in the current week have fallen sharply by at least 1,600 rupees ($23) per tonne on weak demand while finished product makers such as rebar mills curtailed purchasing semi-finished products.Fastmarkets' assessment of the price for Indian domestic secondary billet stood at 28,100-28,300 rupees per tonne ex-works on Friday June 21, down by 1,600 rupees per tonne....Read More

Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 274,63370,31056,655141,993365,848473,281492,813 Change from Prior Reporting Period 24,5194,434-3,1804,27426,10225,61327,356 Traders 20669685559290170 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 52,35532,823525,636 3,3601,61728,973 non reportable positionsCha...Read More

- Richard (Rick) MillsThe US Federal Reserve, the country's central bank, did what many expected on Wednesday, and held interest rates steady, while signaling that a rate cut is on its way. Despite pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) concluded after a two-day meeting that it will stay pat for now, meaning no change to the 2.25% to 2....Read More

Gold finally surged to new bull-market highs this week! Several years after its last bull high, gold punched through vexing resistance after the Fed continued capitulating on ever normalizing. This huge milestone changes everything for gold and its miners' stocks, unleashing new-high psychology fueling self-feeding buying. With speculators not yet all-in and investors wildly underdeploye...Read More

Summary: Gold closed at $1348 today according to Stockcharts but is now much higher at $1365 as I write this update. My two longer-term weekly charts on GLD show the potential for a massive upside breakout where price could really run hard & fast. My first chart is a 6 Year weekly showing a massive inverse Head & shoulders pattern that is ready to bust out to the upside of the inverse neckl...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinDrone Thursday - 100% July Cut in Rates Priced in - Gold Market is responding to falling dollar, rates, FOMC, drones, safe haven buying roaring into the market.Gold roars higher:Read More

- Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAGold has finally broken out to the upside.In Asia trading on Thursday, Gold exploded through the $1360 to $1370 resistance zone and was able to hold the gains throughout the day, closing above $1395/oz. As we pen this article, Gold has to chance to break $1400/oz by the weekend. The close of the month (and quarter) next week will provide an additional clue as to th...Read More

Bullion's powerful rally this week has kicked this popular mining-stock vehicle into high gear. I haven't tracked it in quite a while but aim to do so now, provided it remains feisty and interesting. In that regard, GDX looks like it's about to ratchet up the interest-level, although not in a way we might have preferred. Notice that Thursday's energetic short-squeeze brought the ETF within inche...Read More

Apart from the technical, Iranian issue is also contributing to gold's rise. Momentum is bullish for gold and crude oil. Silver has a lot of potential to rise IF it tries to play catch up with gold. China is trying to mediate for a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Developments in Korea will not have any effect on gold or currency markets. One should look for signs of profit taking bef...Read More

The CIS export billet price neared $410 per tonne by the end of the week, as market participants had expected. They cited the drop in import scrap prices in Turkey as well as lack of demand in the major sales markets as reasons for the weakening of the price.Fastmarkets' daily CIS export billet index was $411 per tonne fob Black Sea on Friday June 21, down by $7 from Thursday.A 50,000-tonne cargo...Read More

The light iron market has dropped ?5 ($6.35) per tonne in the UK over the past week, on slower domestic demand and a fall in European export prices, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday June 21.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for UK grade-5C ferrous scrap on an inter-merchant basis was ?80-100 ($102-127) per tonne on June 21, compared with ?85-105 per tonne previously. The move follows a ste...Read More

With each passing Fed meeting, it looks very likely that committee members are going to vote to cut rates by year-end. The question is now, "how many?"The dollar is unloved by its domestic central bank and president, both of which appear to want it lower.Gold has broken out of a 4-year trading range, and the pent-up energy should propel it much higher in the months to come.As opined in m...Read More

The London Metal Exchange has just finished its trial to calculate nickel prices using a volume weighted average price (VWAP) method on the exchange's electronic trading platform. If early indications are anything to go by, metals market participants did not embrace this method of price discovery in the way some had anticipated. For three months since Monday March 18, closing prices for nickel car...Read More

It's Friday, Friday, Friday. Jim Cramer weighs in on the surges in gold and oil, Slack's (WORK) first full day as a public company and Canopy Growth's (CGC - Get Report) earnings report. Markets In case you missed it... On Friday, gold prices surged to a six-year high as investors sought safety from falling global currencies, negative interest rates and the prospect of escalating military tension...Read More

GLD has been stuck in a trading range for over six years and the area between $127 to $130 can be considered as the upper bound of this trading range.GLD has attempted to break through resistance many times in the previous years and again in 2019, but so far has been unable to do it.Stimulus from the Fed is not necessarily good for GLD because it helps stocks and deprives GLD from the capital it n...Read More

Premiums for nickel full plate surged in China this week following an arbitrage-driven rally that saw Fastmarkets' premium assessments for the material in Shanghai hit historic highs.Fastmarkets' assessment of the premium for nickel, 99.8% purity, full plate, cif Shanghai, climbed to $350-410 per tonne on Tuesday June 18, an increase of 69% from $210-240 per tonne a week prior and the highest sinc...Read More

Trading was active in China's export hot-rolled coil market on June 21, with traders rushing to restock on expectations that prices will gain further. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,780-3,800 yuan ($550-553) per tonne, up 10-20 yuan per tonne. Northern China (Tianjin): 3,770-3,780 yuan per tonne, narrowing upward 10 yuan per tonne. Prices climbed further on Friday on futures g...Read More

Nickel's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange edged lower during morning trading on Friday June 21, pressured by a continued draw on the exchange's dwindling supply. Some 2,778 tonnes of full-plate nickel cathodes were freshly booked out of LME-registered warehouses this morning, prompting the downturn in price movement. The metal's futures price was still trading above the nearby $12,00...Read More

Iran's shooting down of a US drone has raised tensions in the Middle East, with gold and oil prices extending gains, while equities in Asia have weakened.Spot gold price reaches high of $1,411.90 per ozUS President Donald Trump reportedly ordered an attack on Iran, which was later aborted Asian equities weaker across the board Base metals Three-month base metals on the London Metal Exchange were f...Read More

Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ended Friday June 21.China China's domestic ferro-chrome spot price was flat ahead of the country's three leading stainless steel mills releasing July ferro-chrome tender prices, which should be in the week starting June 24. As a result, many suppliers took a watchful stance. The imported charge...Read More