Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

Copper and aluminium prices reached new year-to-date highs at the close of trading on the London Metal Exchange on Monday November 30, while the rest of the base-metals complex showed dips in their three-month prices.Copper rose to $7,580 per tonne at 5pm on Monday, up by 1% from Friday's closing price of $7,499.50 per tonne and setting a new year-to-date high.The red metal also went up to $7,708....Read More

The latest data for the global manganese ore market for the week ended November 30, 2020.Read More

LME base metals reached fresh multi-year highs on Monday as Chinese manufacturing PMI surprised on the upside and Japan's industrial production data beat estimates, Marex Spectron's Anna Stablum said.LME copper touched US$7,692.50/t today in hefty volumes - the highest intraday price since March 26, 2013, she said.Aluminium closed at $2,036/t, its highest point in two years.Gold has fallen below $...Read More

Seaborne prices of both low- and high-grade manganese ore in China were slightly lower in the week to Friday November 27, slowing an earlier downtrend prior to the release of miners' next offer prices and Hebei Steel's final purchase price for December-delivery silico-manganese, market sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets' manganese ore index 37% Mn, cif Tianjin fell by 1 cent (0.3%), week o...Read More

Vancouver, BC - LEAF Mobile Inc. (TSX.V : LEAF) a leading creator and publisher of counter culture mobile games, today released the third consecutive record quarter financial results for the third quarter of 2020.In the second quarter ended June 30, 2020, LEAF completed its qualifying transaction, which included its acquisition of LDRLY (Technologies) Inc. ("LDRLY"). Prior to the completion of...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Ovation Science Inc. (CSE: OVAT) ("Ovation" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that its DermSafe (R) Hand Sanitizer Lotion is now available in select locations of Source For Sports, a Canadian sporting goods retailer with over 130 locations across Canada."We are excited to now have DermSafe available to consumers in multiple provinces across Canada at Source For Sports; a...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday November 30 that are worth another look.Italian authorities will finalize their takeover of a share in flat steel producer ArcelorMittal Italia on December 10, trade unions Fiom-Cgil and Uilm said on November 30.The first deal for...Read More

The tantalum concentrate market rebounded on Friday November 27, after hitting its lowest level so far in 2020 last week, due to a return of some consumer activity in the spot market. Fastmarkets assessed the price of tantalite, basis 25% min Ta2O5, cif China at $50-55 per lb on Friday, up from the previous week's assessment of $48-50 per lb. The market is now trading at its highest in two mo...Read More

European ferro-titanium prices could hit multi-year highs in the coming weeks against strengthening demand from steelmakers and increasingly tight supplies of scrap, alloy suppliers in Europe told Fastmarkets. Delivered duty-paid prices in Europe will set a new annual peak if prices increase at all from the top end of the current range, and the market will equal a more than six-year high if prices...Read More

Turkish domestic scrap prices continued to increase over the past week because of the rising costs for imported scrap, sources said on Monday November 30.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap, auto bundle scrap, domestic, delivered Turkey, was 2,600-2,645 lira ($330-336) per tonne on Monday, up from the 2,250-2,545 lira per tonne of last week.Long and flat steelmaker ??olakoglu and...Read More

Base metals prices were mainly stronger this morning, Monday November 30, helped by strong Chinese manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) data and a weaker dollar, but some of the metals are starting to look tired.Chinese manufacturing PMI climbed to 52.1 in November, up from 51.4 in OctoberChinese non-manufacturing PMI climbed to 56.41 in November, up from 56.2 in OctoberBase metals The t...Read More

The tantalum concentrate market rebounded on Friday November 27, after hitting its lowest level so far in 2020 last week, due to a return of some consumer activity in the spot market. Fastmarkets assessed the price of tantalite, basis 25% min Ta2O5, cif China at $50-55 per lb on Friday, up from the previous week's assessment of $48-50 per lb. The market is now trading at its highest in two mo...Read More

Why are stocks hitting record highs?I wish I had a good answer for you. I wish I could tell you the Dow rallied to 30,000 last week because everything was going so great for America.I wish I could say the economy never looked stronger... that the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths weren't still rising... that the nation's cities weren't devolving into "anarchist jurisdictions"... that it wasn't l...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday November 30 that are worth another look.Italian authorities will finalize their takeover of a share in flat steel producer ArcelorMittal Italia on December 10, trade unions Fiom-Cgil and Uilm said on November 30.The first deal for...Read More

Domestic prices for steel hot-rolled coil increased again across Europe in the week to Friday November 27, due to tight supply from both domestic and overseas suppliers.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?560.00 ($669.88) per tonne on Friday, up by ?,?18.75 per tonne week on week and by ?,?61.67 per tonne month on month.Friday's index...Read More

Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the Index resumed its relentless uptrend and added 33.36 points to finish the week at 1238.51 for a gain of 2.8%. Over the last month, the INK CIN has generated a blistering run of 16.8% in gains.Our short-term momentum indicator, RSI, which was already in overbought territory,...Read More

Domestic hot-rolled coil prices in Northern Europe went up day on day on Monday November 30, supported by good order books at the mills, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?561.15 ($671.26) per tonne on Monday, up by ?,?1.15 per tonne from ?,?560.00 per tonne on Friday.The index was up by ?,?18.65 per tonn...Read More

Brazilian steelmakers will raise the domestic price for long steel products such as rebar by an average of 12% in December, market participants have told Fastmarkets.This will make it the sixth consecutive month of higher prices in Brazil, because of the quick demand recovery from 2020 lows caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Long steel producers increased prices by around 10% in November.Fastmarkets...Read More

Domestic steel rebar prices in Russia's Central Federal District around Moscow increased again on higher offers from mills in the week to Monday November 30, reflecting export market growth, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, cpt Moscow, Russia was 42,000 roubles ($552) per tonne including 20% value-added tax on Monday, up fro...Read More

Traders are getting bolder in taking rebar positions in the Singapore import market amid the continued rise in long steel prices in Asia, sources said.A transaction was concluded at $517 per tonne cfr Singapore on a theoretical weight basis for Turkish rebar by a Europe-headquartered trader, a buyer source said. The quantity for the February-shipment cargo could not be confirmed.The is in line wit...Read More