Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD in Statistics, and his career has stretched over 25 years. He aspires to thrive in the financial editor world, unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Jim operates a free website called Golden Jackass.Read More
Whether it's the climate, healthcare, immigration or economy, President Biden has a plan to take the country further Left than ever before. Biden willContinue...Read More
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"It's the classic parenting problem: take away the candy and you'll get a tantrum. But keep on suppling candy, it doesn't make things any easier," Mohamed El-Erian, economic advisor at Allianz and Gramercy and president at Queens College, Cambridge told CNBC's "Squawk Box" Monday. "At some point you've got to really hope that the fundamentals will improve fast enough to validate the marketplace."M...Read More
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*This interview was part of the The Vancouver Resource Investment Conference which took place virtually on January 17-19, 2021. Mike Maloney sits down with Cambridge House CEO Jay Martin to discuss the state of the current gold market, and how to place capital into gold and silver bullion and stocks. Mike shares his thoughts on investing in bitcoin, the gold and silver price and why he has spent m...Read More
Fastmarkets has corrected its manganese ore 44%, cif Tianjin, index, which was published incorrectly on Friday January 22 due to a calculation error.Fastmarkets' weekly index for MB-MNO-0001 - manganese ore, 44% Mn, cif Tianjin, $ per dmtu, should have been $5.02 per dmtu, but was published at $4.91 per dmtu on January 22. It was corrected on January 25.Fastmarkets' pricing database, MInD, has bee...Read More
James Kwantes of Resource Opportunities profiles Ridgeline Minerals, an explorer that is advancing several properties in Nevada. SelenaNevada's silver-laden history branded it "The Silver State" but the present is paved with gold. The more valuable precious metal is Nevada's top export, worth US$2.7 billion in 2019 (casino games is a distant second at $550 million).Since the 1962 discovery of Car...Read More
Peter Krauth, the editor of Gold Resource Investor, traces previous gold bull markets and lays out what he believes is in store for the current one. If we want to make intelligent forecasts and decisions about our future, we need to understand not only where we are today, but also how we got here. So, let's look at previous gold bull markets for some insight on what we might expect from this one....Read More
European traders of manganese alloys have been busy in the past couple of weeks, boosting prices of silico-manganese by almost 20% and of high-carbon ferro-manganese by 10% ahead of expected renewed consumer demand in February, according to trade sources and available industry data. Traders have been gearing up for increased consumer demand since December when European steelmakers saw a surprising...Read More
My team prepares Custom Valuations Index charts to understand how capital is being deployed in the global markets alongside US Dollar and Treasury Yields. The purpose of the Custom Index charts in this article is to provide better insight into and understanding of underlying capital movements in various market conditions. Recently, we discovered the Custom Index chart shares a kee...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday January 25 that are worth another look.The London Metal Exchange will launch its new cash-settled lithium futures contract on June 14, 2021, settled against Fastmarkets' price assessment for lithium hydroxide monohydrate.Liberty Steel Group has completed...Read More
Liberty Steel Group has completed "due diligence" on Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe and submitted a "firmed up" bid for its acquisition based on the results, the UK-based steel company told Fastmarkets on Monday January 25."On Monday January 25, 2021, Liberty Steel submitted a firmed-up bid for Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe based on the results of the comprehensive due diligence process including multiple...Read More
Corween Investments, the holding company of Liberty House, is one step closer to acquiring struggling Polish steel plate mill Huta Czestochowa, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday January 25. The tender for the sale of Huta Czestochowa attracted only one bid from Corween Investments, the current leaseholder of the mill. On Friday January 22, the district court of the city of Czestochowa approved Co...Read More