The following Fastmarkets minor metals prices changed on Wednesday January 30:Bismuth MB free market, $/lb: $3.70-4.10 per lb from $3.50-4.00Cobalt MB free market alloy grade, $/lb: $18.50-20.50 per...Read More
The following Fastmarkets UK non-ferrous scrap and foundry ingot prices changed on Wednesday January 30:Aluminium ingotLM24 pressure diecasting ingot: ?1,415-1,465 per...Read More
The US copper premium remained at a multi-year high this week, with a significant stock cancelation at the LME's New Orleans warehouses failing to nudge it even higher; the Chinese cathode market was quiet before the Lunar New Year holiday and due to a negative import arbitrage. A total of 25,000 tonnes of copper was freshly canceled in New Orleans on Tuesday and Wednesday but US premiums were un...Read More
Prices for steel billet in Asia are likely to come under greater pressure in 2019 with demand for it as well as downstream long steel products expected to stay subdued amid an impending surge in new supply, sources told Fastmarkets MB."Regional demand is weak, so there is not enough room for everyone," a Vietnam-based trader said, referring to a string of new billet production capacity set to come...Read More
This helped offset a decline in the retail investment and jewellery segments, according to the GFMS Gold Survey released on Wednesday.Read More
Solgold CEO, Nick MatherSolGold [SOLG-TSX, LSE] said Thursday it is planning to make an offer to acquire all the outstanding shares of Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. [CGP-TSX, CTNXF-OTC, GWN-F].If the offer succeeds, holders of Cornerstone who tender their shares to the offer will receive 0.55 of a SolGold share in exchange for every Cornerstone share tendered, SolGold said.However, readers of...Read More
Diamond drilling on the Moosehead gold project in central Newfoundland. Source: Sokoman Iron Corp.Sokoman Iron Corp. [SIC-TSXV] emerged as the volume leader on the TSX Venture Exchange Thursday after the company released final assays from phase two drilling on the Moosehead Gold Project in north-central Newfoundland.However, investors reacted to those results by sending the shares down 38% or $0.0...Read More
Choco 10 MineRusoro Mining Ltd. [RML-TSXV] shares tumbled in heavy trading Wednesday following news of an unfavourable court decision related to a US$1.2 billion arbitration award that followed the expropriation of mining properties in Venezuela.Rusoro said the Paris Court of Appeals, in a decision dated January 29, 2019, has partially annulled the arbitral award issued in favour of the company in...Read More
Vale SA, the world’s largest iron ore miner, has vowed to sacrifice production for safety to avoid another tailings dam failure. (Image: Screenshot from BBC News video.)Analysts have begun to weigh the consequences of a deadly tailings dam breach at a Brazilian mine operated by Vale SA [VALE-NYSE], the world's largest producer of iron ore and nickel.The Brumadinho dam breach, which occurred...Read More
They say it'll generate $3.1 billion a year in sales.I think it'll be more.According to the comptroller of New York, cannabis sales in the Empire State will exceed $3 billion a year after the legalization of recreational cannabis.And if you haven't been paying attention, New York is on the cusp of legalization.During his inaugural address, Governor Andrew Cuomo pledged to legalize cannabis. He eve...Read More
Golden Rim Resources Limited (ASX: GMR), is an emerging West African gold developer, focused on its near term Kouri Gold Project, located in north-east Burkina Faso. The Kouri Gold Project contains 1.4Moz in defined Mineral Resources, with significant upside potential to grow. We learned from Craig Mackay, Managing Director of Golden Rim Resources, that they are in the process of acquiring more la...Read More
By: Stefan Gleason, Money MetalsDuring the lackluster and otherwise unremarkable trading of 2018, a hugely important development took place in the precious metals markets. Gold production, in the estimation of some top industry insiders, peaked.Peak gold represents the point at which the total number of ounces being pulled out of the ground by miners reaches a maximum.It doesn't necessarily mean...Read More
By: Gary ChristensonGold prices (weekly chart) formed an impressive inverse head and shoulders formation during a five-year base. Gold prices, which bottomed in December 2015, should climb the wall of worry.WHAT WALL OF WORRY?Really? You have to ask? Financial, stock market, debt and political worries come to mind:Global debt is about $250 trillion. The lenders expect to be repaid plus interest....Read More
By: Richard (Rick) Mills Gold markets were rocking on Tuesday, lifted by a basket of factors that included poor stock market performance earlier in the week, slow growth in China, weak earnings reports and expectations the US Federal Reserve would strike a dovish tone at its two-day meeting starting on Tuesday afternoon. The Fed raised interest rates four times in 2018 but some officials have...Read More
By: Gary TanashianAs the stock market cracked on October 10th we noted...Looks Who's Holding Firm Amid the Carnage; the Gold MinersAnd sure enough the GDX bottoming pattern noted in that post (and before that in an NFTRH subscriber update) played out perfectly amid the stock market carnage going on all around it.Was I trying to predict something? Of course not. I was just following general rul...Read More
By: David HaggithFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell placed his put in stocks while saying there is none. When he doubled down today on a more dovish approach to the economy, Powell claimed the Fed is not designing interest rates to keep the market climbing. If that is true, recession must be near:Fed delivers a "double-barrel dovish blast" The Fed sees recession dead ahead. You have only that...Read More
Well, there you have it: the most brazenly bogus rally in the history of the world. Are these guys good, or what? The fix was in even before Powell declared Wednesday afternoon that the Fed would be "patient." (Now there's a word that will reverberate through history!) AAPL's and Boeing's handlers had already gotten the jump on the Fed chairman's latest PR mutterance, deftly engineering respec...Read More
David Stockman, former congressman and budget director for President Reagan joins Sprott Media's Remy Blaire at the NASDAQ MarketSite. Stockman discusses the premise behind his book, Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp And The Fantasy Of MAGA.David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, S...Read More
Stephen Roach, former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman and Yale senior fellow, joins "Squawk Alley" to discuss potential progress on a trade deal between the U.S. and China.Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the autho...Read More
If you need a hammer for any reason, the United Kingdom's counter-terrorism policing unit will consider you a potential terrorist. Continue...Read More