Last year felt like apivot point in U.S. history. The pandemic and election left the nationideologically divided.There seem to be onlythree resolutions going forward.America will face anincreasingly authoritarian federal government ruling over a largely apatheticpopulace, the nation will splinter, or leadership will emerge which is somehowcapable of bridging the ideological divide between the Amer...Read More

Gold is suffering a hang-over afterit’s early January highs, while the EUR/USD pair is buckling - so when golddeclines, where will its bottom be?After injecting itself with JanetYellen’s stimulus sentiment, gold came down from its highs on Friday (Jan. 22).And like the GDX ETF, it’s important toput gold’s recent run into context. For starters, gold is stilltrading below its...Read More

Inflation will be one of the greatest upside risks for gold this year. Will it materialize and make gold shine?The report about gold in 2021 would be incomplete without the outlook for inflation . We have already written about it recently, but this topic is worth further examination. After all, higher inflation is believed to be one of the biggest tail risks in the coming months or years, and one...Read More

Gold seems to be sleeping off itslatest mini-rally and lacks the momentum to reach new highs. What happens fromhere? Has the USD bottomed? And what does it mean when we factor in the EUR/USDpair and poor economic indicators from Europe into the equation?Not much happened yesterday (Jan. 21),but what happened was relatively informative. And by “relatively” I meanliterally just that. Gol...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

Peter Krauth, the editor of Silver Stock Investor, looks at silver's bull markets since the 1970s and discusses what he thinks lies ahead. There's no consensus on whether silver is in its second or third secular bull market since the 1970s. That's because people define bull markets in different ways. But as I'll show you, it's not that important.What we do know is that silver enjoyed a huge bull m...Read More

Gold moved higher as the USD Indexmoved lower in today’s pre-market trading. Before providing you with mythoughts on why that happened and what the implications are, let’s see exactlywhat transpired. Figure1 - USD IndexIn yesterday’s (Jan. 19) analysis , I commented on the above USD Index chart in the following way:TheUSD Index is after a major breakout above the declining resist...Read More

Anyone who owns precious metals, mining shares or metals' ETFsknows the drill.First, gold and silver begin toestablish an uptrend on the charts. Analysts (like us) start writing about howprices are getting ready to make an upside run.Then "out of nowhere" thousands of highly marginedfutures contracts hit the market on the short side, "re-painting" thecharts, sending terror into...Read More

The London Metal Exchange copper price closed above the $8,000 per tonne mark for the first time in nearly two weeks on Monday February 8, with the majority of the other base metals prices also increasing on account of a falling dollar index. Copper's price closed at $8,037 per tonne on Monday, a 1.6% rise from its price on Friday at 5pm of $7,912.50 per tonne and its first time closing above $8,0...Read More

Iron ore prices went up on Monday February 8, with growing steel mill interest in mid-grade fines at ports, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $160.50 per tonne, up $3.49 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $160.80 per tonne, up $3.27 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $146.45 per tonne, up $2.16 per tonn...Read More

The minimum target for silver is $21.81, but expect a drop even lower to...by Captain Ewave of CaptainEwaveCaptain EwaveGold, Silver & Oil: Price Reaction PlaybookEmail: [email protected]Website: www.captainewave.comCrude Oil:We continue to rally sharply higher in wave (iii), which the following longer term projected endpoint:(iii) = 1.618(i) = 93.96. It now looks like wave $i$ of (iii) is exte...Read More

A range trade is likely for now in silver...by Morris Hubbartt Super Force SignalsA Leading Market Timing ServiceWe Take Every Trade Ourselves!Email: [email protected][email protected]Here are today's videos and charts. The videos are viewable on mobile phones as well as computers. Double-click to enlarge the charts.SGS Key Charts, Signals, & Video AnalysisSuper Force Signals (SFS) is being reb...Read More

The seaborne fob coking coal market trended down on Monday February 8 amid weakened market sentiment and limited trading activity, sources said. Fastmarkets indices Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $154.04 per tonne, down $2.49 per tonne Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $217.23 per tonne, unchanged Hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $133.57 per tonne, down $1.63 per tonne Hard coking coal, cfr...Read More

The London Metal Exchange copper price closed above the $8,000 per tonne mark for the first time in nearly two weeks on Monday February 8, with the majority of the other base metals prices also increasing on account of a falling dollar index. Copper's price closed at $8,037 per tonne on Monday, a 1.6% rise from its price on Friday at 5pm of $7,912.50 per tonne and its first time closing above $8,0...Read More

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Domestic prices for steel rebar in Russia's Central Federal District around Moscow were largely flat in the week to Monday February 8, with buyers expecting prices to fall due to slow demand and declining exports, several sources told Fastmarkets.Buying activity in the region's rebar market was quiet over the assessment week.Construction activity in Russia, the main market for rebar, typically slo...Read More

so RAPAPORT... Pandora shuttered approximately 30% of its retail network in January amid a new outbreak of coronavirus cases.Most of the store closures were in Europe, with all its UK shops shut as the country battles a more severe variant of the virus, a spokesperson for the Danish jeweler told Rapaport News Monday. As of December 31, some 10% of global locations were closed.The company's sa...Read More

RAPAPORT... De Beers has suspended all mining and ore processing at its jointly owned Gahcho Ku?(C) mine in Canada after six employees tested positive for Covid-19.The cases, which came to light during proactive testing of all on-site employees, followed two additional cases that the miner confirmed last week, De Beers said Saturday. Another 47 workers who came into contact with the individuals ha...Read More

RAPAPORT... The shop of the future will feature online concierge services and allow customers to buy on the web and collect in-store. Retail will work in a whole new way. Are jewelry retailers prepared for this shift?The key is to listen and respond to what the public wants, according to panelists on the latest episode of Rapaport's podcast series on technology. "The end consumer is saying to...Read More

Sir Mick Davis, former chief executive officer of Xstrata plc, has launched an investment company focused on battery minerals and has made its first strategic financing move in a graphite mine in Madagascar.The new company is called Vision Blue Resources. It has said that it intends to capitalize on the structural change in battery mineral demand now under way globally, by acquiring a portfolio of...Read More