Before World War I, generals thought the fighting spirit and a cavalry charge were the weapons needed to dominate the battlefield. They were wrong - it was the Maxim machine gun.Before World War II, admirals thought the big guns and thick armor of battleships would control the high seas. They were wrong too. It turns out it was the aircraft carrier.They say the generals always fight the last war b...Read More
Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States achieved a new record high, after mills were able to collect top dollar for what little spot material they have available before May. Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $60.08 per hundredweight ($1,201.60 per short ton) on Tuesday February 16, an increase of 2.40% from $58.67 per cwt on Friday February 12, and u...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe increased day on day on Tuesday February 16, driven by a material shortage, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?727.50 ($882.53) per tonne on Tuesday, up by ?,?9.37 per tonne from ?,?718.13 per tonne on February 15.The index was also up by ?,?17.50 per tonn...Read More
Buyers of flat steel in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were making no deals while they waited for new prices from China, which will be back from a national holiday soon, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday February 16.China's Lunar New Year holiday runs February 11-17.Offers were heard from India, but buyers believed that the prices were too high.End-user demand in both countries was al...Read More
India's ministry of road transport & highways has made changes to its specifications for steel reinforcing bar to be used in road and bridge building, allowing participants in the secondary market to provide material, according to a recent government document.The previous requirement was for all steel to be procured from producers which manufacture steel billet directly from iron ore, and which ro...Read More
A fire has interrupted operations at ArcelorMittal Gijon's rail mill in Spain, the company told Fastmarkets on Tuesday February 16. The short-lived fire broke out at one of the rolling stands at Gijon's steelworks rail mill, located in Asturias, Spain, on Saturday, prompting the company to issue a stop-work...Read More
Most buyers for steel rebar and billet in the United Arab Emirates held back from the market in the week ended Tuesday February 16 because they wanted to see new rebar prices from local producers, sources told Fastmarkets.Rebar producers in the UAE were expected to announce new prices soon, and buyers have been waiting for them since last week.Buyers expected prices to hold steady or go down becau...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 16 that are worth another look.With long-serving chief executive officer Ivan Glasenberg departing on a trade-fueled high, Glencore looks likely to continue along a familiar path while also tackling one of its biggest...Read More
Swedish state-owned iron-ore producer LKAB plans to reopen its iron ore mine in Lapland, Sweden, to meet the increased demand for iron ore products, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday February 16.LKAB plans to reopen the Mertainen mine, which was mothballed in 2016 amid a change in the market situation, in the autumn 2021, the company said. The primary goal of the mine's reopening is to meet the increas...Read More
Turkish steel producers have extended their absence from the deep-sea scrap markets because they were focusing on finished steel sales, market sources said on Tuesday February 16.The daily scrap indices had risen by more than $22 per tonne week on week after two Turkish steelmakers booked US cargoes at $410 per tonne cfr on an HMS 1&2 (80:20) basis.Since the upturn in scrap prices, most Turkish st...Read More
The export price for steel billet originating in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has moved up on fresh sales to Turkey, with offer price increasing as well, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday February 16.A sizeable cargo of Ukraine-origin billet was sold to the Iskenderun area of Turkey earlier this week at $550 per tonne fob Black Sea, several sources reported to Fastmarkets. This price wa...Read More
Get Mike Maloney's views on the latest market action in today's must-watch update, including news on the 'midnight changes' to two of the largest silver ETFs, how retail bullion supplies are holding up...and what Mike did for his 65th birthday. Link to Jeff's article: https://goldsilver.com/blog/dear-elon...?EUR>?Jeff Clark is editor and lead writer of BIG GOLD, the monthly gold-investment news...Read More
George Edward Gammon is an American real estate investor and entrepreneur. He produces and stars in a popular YouTube Channel. Prior to 2012, George started, owned, and operated multiple businesses ranging from conventions to advertising. The last growing to 24 million in annual revenues and over 100 employees. After 12 years as a successful entrepreneur, at the age of 38, George semi retired and...Read More
The hard assets are starting to win right now and people need to wise up, this according to best-selling author Robert Kiyosaki. In an interview with our Daniela Cambone, he explains why he wants to accumulate as much gold, Bitcoin, and especially silver as possible. "I stay out of paper, I stay out of the stock market," he says. Kiyosaki also talks the silver squeeze: "The trouble with silver is...Read More
Jim Bianco is President and Macro Strategist at Bianco Research, L.L.C. Since 1990 Jim's commentaries have offered a unique perspective on the global economy and financial markets. Unencumbered by the biases of traditional Wall Street research, Jim has built a decades long reputation for objective, incisive commentary that challenges consensus thinking. In nearly 20 years at Bianco Research, Jim's...Read More
Jim Rogers joins us to talk about the latest trends and what the nations are witnessing in global markets. He says bubbles are now beginning to develop but haven't reached their full extent except for bonds where they are full-fledged bubbles. Jim also says that if he were to buy countries right now he would go for Japan and Russia even though they seem to be downright now they have a lot of money...Read More
In conversation with Julian Klymochko, founder and chief investment officer at Accelerate Financial Technologies.James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself. Grant's television appearances inc...Read More
We are joined on Metal Money by Chris Vermeulen, founder of Technical Traders Ltd. Chris expects a record amount of silver to be taken delivery of at the next silver futures delivery date thereby exacerbating the current silver squeeze.Chris Vermeulen has been involved in the markets since 1997 and is the founder of Technical Traders Ltd. He is an internationally recognized technical analyst, trad...Read More
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Recent court documents have indicated that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) possesses a tool allowing them to access encrypted messages on the Signal app.Continue...Read More