China's hot-rolled coil exporters capitalized on higher prices on Friday June 28 amid stability in the domestic market.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,920-3,940 yuan ($570-573) per tonne, narrowing from 3,900-3,950 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,850-3,860 yuan per tonne, up 10 yuan per tonneTrading activity picked up a bit in Shanghai after prices fell a bit from the high end compar...Read More

Domestic rebar prices in Poland have been largely unchanged over the past week supported by good demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday June 28.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic 12mm B500B-grade rebar in Poland was 2,000-2,100 zloty ($534-561) per tonne ex-works on June 28, compared with 2,000-2,110 zloty per tonne ex-works a week earlier.The assessment reflects the deals...Read More

China's rebar market maintained its upward momentum on Friday June 28 amid rising futures, though spot demand fell gradually. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,960-4,000 yuan ($577-583) per tonne, up 20 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,850-3,880 yuan per tonne, up 40-50 yuan per tonneRebar futures rose during the day with traders engaging in speculation amid bullish sentiment attribute...Read More

The possibility of new restrictions in major steelmaking regions in China will likely give long steel prices in the country - which have been trending upward since hitting a price floor a week ago - a further boost in July.Industry sources are increasingly concerned over whether two other major rebar production regions - the provinces of Jiangsu and Shandong - will introduce output curbs to improv...Read More

Global ferrous scrap prices ended the downtrend during the working week from Monday June 24 to Friday June 28, with Turkish mills returning to the market for August shipment deep-sea cargoes, bringing a positive sentiment to the market. Turkish import prices increase sharply on resumed buyingUS export markets remain weak with sales from West CoastCheaper Japanese scrap to limit US imports into Asi...Read More

A major breakdown is in progress for the USDollar index. It has broken its intermediate uptrend which began in April 2018. Eighteen months of official rate hikes and tremendous hidden activity with derivative bond purchases, which obscure the absent USTreasury Bond buyers, have finally weighed on the King Dollar. The USEconomy suffers from 20 key breakdown signals, about which the lapdog press r...Read More

Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 298,10861,55459,841160,228420,378518,177541,773 Change from Prior Reporting Period 23,475-8,7563,18618,23554,53044,89648,960 Traders 20775745660287189 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 59,42835,832577,605 7,0733,00951,969 non reportable positionsCh...Read More

The gold miners' stocks just blasted higher to a major decisive breakout this week! Driven by gold's own huge bull-market breakout, the gold stocks surged well above vexing years-old upper resistance. The resulting new multi-year highs are a game changer, starting to shift long-apathetic sector sentiment back towards bullish. This will increasingly attract back traders, with their buying u...Read More

- Gary Tanashian, NFTRHYou may know me as the......guy.The guy using the planets of an imaginary gold sector Macrocosm with proper fundamentals that are decidedly not imaginary but rather, are necessary to call a real bull phase or even bull market. By managing a strict set of macro and sector fundamental inputs (to the sound of crickets and little else in the sector) NFTRH and its subscribe...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold technical update -- preparing for the G20, China and more:Read More

- David Haggith President Trump stated on Wednesday that a war with Iran will be fast and easy. Let's hope that means faster and easier than the trade war with China has turned out to be, now a year long and getting worse.We're in a very strong position if something should happen. I'm not talking boots on the ground. I'm just saying if something would happen, it wouldn't last very long.Reute...Read More

The UK light iron inter-merchant spot market has been relatively stable amid some widening in price assessments while suppliers and consumers jockey for position in their estimates for the outcome of July monthly settlement talks due to start next week, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday June 28.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for UK grade-5C ferrous scrap on an inter-merchant basis was ?80-...Read More

Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More

"Gold is doing well, it will drag silver up," he said. "Silver has become a bit of a different market since the advent of the cryptocurrencies... once monetary demand comes back, you'll see silver accelerate because it's a small market." David Morgan is a world-renown precious metals aficionado. He is the creator of the Silver-Investor.com website and The Morgan Report, a monthly report that cover...Read More

Paul Singer, Elliott Management founder and co-chief executive officer, comments on the state of financial markets at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.Paul Singer is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, activist, investor, vulture capitalist, and philanthropist. His hedge fund, Elliott Management Corporation, specializes in distressed debt acquisitions. Singer is also the founder...Read More

Gold has had its best run in many years. Bitcoin, after over a year in the dumps has come roaring back to life. And according to Lior Gantz, this is only the beginning. Things are rapidly turning down and the geo-political scene has never been scarier. There aren't many places for the middle-class to put their wealth and gold/bitcoin is one of the last. Of course everything has risk, but so-called...Read More

As if we aren't being tracked, recorded, and monitored enough, the Pentagon now has a laser that can identify a person by their heartbeat. Your heartbeat is going to be a Continue...Read More

Austria was able to sell its second 100-year bond in history at just a yield of just over 1.00%. Some argue that capital has been forced to buy anything that has a yield Continue...Read More

Finally it happened although it took 6 long years to break through The Gold Maginot Line at $1,350! This resistance was a lot stronger than the original French one Continue...Read More

All 10 Democrats raised their hands in support of taxpayer-funded free healthcare to all illegal aliens.Continue...Read More