Markets have been making fresh highs for the last several months. And it is not too easy to find worthy investment ideas at record levels. Does the same occur to you? Here are three TSX stocks that offer handsome growth potential for long-term investors.National Bank of CanadaNational Bank of Canada (TSX:NA), the smallest of the Big Six Canadian banks by market cap, looks poised for decent growth...Read More

Buying stocks on the dip can be a highly profitable strategy. However, one should take caution while buying stocks on the dip. At times, there are good reasons behind the decline in a stock’s price, and the recovery in such stock could be elusive.  Notably, Canadian stocks headed north over the past year because of solid buying amid an improved operating environment. However, profi...Read More

Those seeking to find value in today’s market certainly have to search high and low. Indeed, valuations have climbed to what many analysts think are bubble-like levels. Accordingly, investors may be intrigued by one top TSX gold stock, which has (TSX:FNV)(NYSE:FNV)">outperformed since the beginning of the pandemic, though not in a straight line.Indeed, Franco-Nevada Gold (TSX:FNV)(NY...Read More

There's been a lot of finger pointing and head shaking over the past week as Afghanistan rolled over for the Taliban in record time.Of course, most of us had the luxury of sitting at a distance and marvelling as the chaos unfolded, second-guessing and bemoaning all the blunders of the last 20 years that brought us to this point.And that's going to go on for a while as political pundits and politic...Read More

Premiums in Europe and the United States continue to push higher, with market participants starting to negotiate contracts for 2022 supply.EuropeFastmarkets assessed the aluminium 6063 extrusion billet premium, ddp North Germany (Ruhr region) at $1,220-1,270 per tonne on Friday August 27, up from $1,200-1,250 per tonne a week earlier and from $1,190-1,240 at the beginning of the month.Fastmarkets'...Read More

At $3 below $2,700 per tonne, aluminium reached its highest three-month price on the London Metal Exchange since May 2011 on Friday August 27, and most prices on the complex were also up following long-awaited statements from the US Federal Reserve Chair. The new year-to-date peak for aluminium was $2,697 per tonne on Friday; the metal was up by 1.1% at 5pm to $2,649.50 per tonne from Thursday's $...Read More

Treatment charges for lead concentrate rose in August on a strongly negative import arbitrage and a steep backwardation on the London Metal Exchange, market participants told Fastmarkets.In addition, more mined material has become available to the Chinese market, which has been tightly supplied for the past three months.Fastmarkets' lead spot concentrate TC, low silver, cif China and the lead spot...Read More

An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday August 27.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More

Adam HamiltonArchivesAug 27, 2021The silver miners' stocks have been pounded lower this summer, collateral damage from gold's selloff on distant-future-Fed-rate-hikes fears. That has devastated this tiny contrarian sector's psychology, leaving it mired in deep bearishness. But that dark sentiment pall certainly isn't justified fundamentally based on these companies' recently-reported Q2'21 operati...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in Europe, China and the United States on Friday August 27.China Ferro-silicon prices in China have been strong with general sentiment quite bullish following news that Ningxia has started a stricter round of production and power cuts, intended to meet the energy consumption dual control targets, and which made spot availability even tighter. In addition...Read More

Fastmarkets copper concentrate treatment charge/ refining charge (TC/RC) index continued to rise in the week to August 27. Fastmarket's calculation of the copper concentrates TC index, cif Asia Pacific is now at its highest level since mid-April 2020, with smelters bidding for clean tonnage at mid-to-high $60s. Blended cargos from Asia were offered in the mid-$60s...Read More

Treatment charges for lead concentrate rose in August on a strongly negative import arbitrage and a steep backwardation on the London Metal Exchange, market participants told Fastmarkets.In addition, more mined material has become available to the Chinese market, which has been tightly supplied for the past three months.Fastmarkets' lead spot concentrate TC, low silver, cif China and the lead spot...Read More

An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Dalila Ouerghi and...Read More

An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday August 27.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More

Turkish mills were largely inactive in the import scrap market over the week ended Friday August 27, while prices in key Asian markets were affected by the low levels of interest among mills for imported cargoes.Turkey books just one deep sea cargo during weekUS prepares for fall in domestic pricesVietnamese import prices constrained by rise in Covid-19 casesChinese scrap buyers hold back from imp...Read More

Prices for shredded steel scrap into Pakistan and India have decreased in the week to Friday August 27, sources told Fastmarkets.Demand in India remained muted due to the monsoon season, and trading activity in Pakistan continues to remain high.PakistanFastmarkets calculated its weekly steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Port Qasim, Pakistan at $525.57 per tonne on Friday, down by $13.4...Read More

The price of alloy steel scrap in the UK domestic market increased in the week to Friday August 27 because of higher nickel costs and an ongoing tightness of supply, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly assessment for stainless steel scrap 18/8 solids domestic, delivered merchants UK was ?1,300-1,400 ($1,785-1,922] per tonne on Friday, up by ?50-100 per tonne week on week.The price...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange were mixed on the morning of Friday August 27 while market participants wait to hear what United States Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has to say about the US monetary policy timeline when he speaks later today. Asian-Pacific equity indices were mixed this morningBase metalsLME three-month zinc ($2,981 per tonne) an...Read More

Share this article TORONTO - Orocobre Limited [ORL-TSX; ORE-ASX] reports completing a merger with Galaxy Resources Limited [GXY-ASX].Under the terms, all Galaxy shares have now been transferred to Orocobre, and eligible Galaxy shareholders have been issued the scheme consideration of 0.569 Orocobre share for each Galaxy share held on the scheme record date. The 292,598,572 newly issued Orocobre...Read More

An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday August 27.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More