Mohamed El-Erian, economic advisor at Allianz and Gramercy and president at Queens College, Cambridge, on how the Reddit short squeeze could possibly end.Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world....Read More

The historic short squeeze, engineered by millions of deeply cynical small traders, exposed just how rigged the market has been.Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas...Read More

I have been warning for months that the gold/silver ratio will collapse and that silver would gain over gold. The danger that whoever is really behind this Reddit forum is that you will are more likely to bring the SEC down on free speech because you cannot tell people to buy stuff and then havContinue...Read More

When it comes to the shares of GameStop, most of the mainstream media's focus has been on the Reddit message board Continue...Read More

President Trump's plans to completely withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan this year now appear to have been scrapped according to NATO and Continue...Read More

"The Nobel Peace Prize is not for popularity. Nor is it an assessment of what the international community may think of those who helped Continue...Read More

With both short interest and borrow fees tumbling, the main catalyst behind the squeeze - namely GME being the most shorted Russell 3000 Continue...Read More

1. This morning, the major stock indexes are trading up a little after being pounded on Friday. The talk of the town is still about these reddit boards or really Wallstreet bets. Now this group is pushing silver as the next great short squeeze. I really dont think this is a great short squeeze play, but I do think silver has all the reasons in the world to go higher eventually anyway. 2. Shortsque...Read More

As you know, we stand at the start of what could be an historic week in the precious metals. There is a growing grassroots movement to tackle the Bullion Banks and put an end, once and for all, to their fraudulent fractional reserve and digital derivative pricing scheme. We'll have more on this current system in the days ahead but, for today, this podcast was recorded with three goals in mind:Cont...Read More

Following extensive market engagement, Fastmarkets is extending the consultation period for amendments to the specification of its daily price for steel billet, import, cfr Southeast Asia to provide additional time for market participants to submit feedback. The original proposal consultation, which started on December 30 and can be found here, was originally scheduled to end on February 1, but wi...Read More

Independent financial analyst Matt Badiali looks into Heliostar Metal's recent drill results at its Alaska project. I love field season. Over the past fifteen years, I made it a point to get to as many projects as I can. I visited projects in New Guinea, Turkey, Haiti, Yukon Territory, Ireland, Mexico and the U.S. These days, I'm looking for quality projects to visit. And I have my eye on one par...Read More

Ron Struthers of Struthers Resource Stock Report delves into what's going on in the silver market right now and discusses a handful of silver companies on his radar screen. It appears silver is in a new uptrend with support from the longer term up trend channel. Silver should test recent highs, so is doing much better than gold. A close at $29 or higher would signal a breakout. There is a lot of...Read More

The StreetSmart Live! Broadcast on Jan. 26, 2021, focused on metals and why now is a good time for investors to be looking at them and the mining space. John Newell, independent analyst and portfolio manager, and John Feneck, mining sector expert and president of Feneck Consulting, addressed the status of the current metals market. CEOs of the three metals-focused companies comprising the Metallic...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.The conequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on energy demand affected oil and gas prices through much of 2020 and weighed on drilling rates and demand for oil-country tubular goods (OCTG) in most regions.These effects were most likely to continue well into 2021 and perhaps longer, according to Fastmarkets OCTG Intelligence Serv...Read More

If you're a close observer of the metals market, you know that the price of silver has taken a tumble during the past several days.Elliott wave analysis was a big help in identifying the price turn, which occurred on Jan. 6.Indeed, here's a chart and commentary from the Jan. 6 issue of our Monday-Wednesday-Friday U.S. Short Term Update, an Elliott Wave International publication which provides near...Read More

As competition in the global steel markets remains fierce, Fastmarkets provides an update on the new, progressing and closed trade cases from around the world in January 2021.The case list below includes only updates. For other continuing cases from 2020, see the updates for December,...Read More

The Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) issued three advisories over the weekend to clear ports in the Pilbara region in Western Australia ahead of a tropical low.The PPA said it instructed the ports of Port Hedland and Dampier to be cleared on Saturday January 30, and the Port of Ashburton the following day due to strong winds and heavy rainfall forecast across the region due to tropical low 12U.The Au...Read More

Swedish steelmakers SSAB no longer plans to acquire the Ijmuiden plant in the Netherlands off of Tata Steel, SSAB said on Friday January 29.Tata Steel initiated discussions with SSAB on the sale of its IJmuiden plant in the Netherlands and related downstream assets in November 2020. After the announcement, market sources said it would have allowed SSAB to increase its presence in Northern Europe.A...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday February 1 that are worth another look.Chinese nickel sulfate prices have made steady gains since the start of 2021, rising again last week to set the highest level since Fastmarkets began tracking the market in July 2018.More than 67,000 lots of the Singapore Exchange's 65% Fe iron ore swaps...Read More

Hot-rolled coiled prices in the United States held essentially flat to begin February.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $56.56 per hundredweight ($1,131.20 per short ton) on Monday February 1, up by 0.1% from $56.50 per cwt on Friday January 29 and an increase of 2.7% from $55.07 per cwt one week earlier. Inputs were collected in a range of $54...Read More