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

Share this articleTORONTO - Kerr Mines Inc. (TSX: KER, OTCQB: KERMF), announced that it has completed a corporate name change to Arizona Gold Corp. which more appropriately reflects the Company's focus with the restart of production at its 100 per cent owned Copperstone gold project located in Arizona.Giulio T. Bonifacio, Chief Executive Officer stated: "The company believes the new name provides...Read More

A reminder of Fastmarkets' cobalt pricing schedule during the Christmas and New Year period. AssessmentsDaily price assessments for cobalt metal published from London will be assessed and published as usual up to, and including, Thursday December 24. Prices will then be published as rollovers (using the December 24 assessment) during UK bank holidays and office closures until Monday January 4. Thi...Read More

I have a confession to make, friends: I have an addiction.I love fishing.I go out as often as I can, for as long as I can. I'm pretty good at it, too. Here's a biggun from my local lake outside of Baltimore from one of my last trips.But even when I am fishing, my thoughts are never far from the markets. And as I was breaking down my rods and reels this weekend for a little end-of-season TLC, it ca...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 23 that are worth another look.World crude steel production increased by 6.6% year on year in November, with China, Germany and Ukraine posting the largest increases.Chilean state copper producer Codelco has increased the...Read More

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have moved above $50 per hundredweight ($1,000 per short ton) for the first time since early September 2008 thanks to a continuing supply shortage. Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US rose to $50.06 per cwt ($1,001.20 per ton) on Wednesday December 23, up by 0.64% from $49.74 per cwt on Tuesday December 22 and 2.29% higher than $4...Read More

Domestic European prices for hot-dipped galvanized coil rose in the week to Wednesday December 23, with market sources wary of further rises into the new year on material shortages. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel HDG, domestic, exw Northern Europe was ?,?720-760 ($879-928) per tonne on December 23, compared with ?,?730-750 per tonne a week earlier. The assessment was based on...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 23 that are worth another look.World crude steel production increased by 6.6% year on year in November, with China, Germany and Ukraine posting the largest increases.Chilean state copper producer Codelco has increased the...Read More

Steel reinforcing bar prices in the United States rose to a 32-month high following a second round of mill hikes and an ongoing supply shortage, but were eclipsed by higher import prices. Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), fob mill US at $35.50 per hundredweight ($710 per short ton) on Wednesday December 23, up 2.9% from $34.50 per cwt the week before and the highest...Read More

Imports of finished steel to the United States fell month on month in November due to lower bloom, billet and slab volumes, according to US Census Bureau data.The US imported 1.24 million tonnes of steel products in November, down 9.5% from 1.37 million tonnes in October, preliminary Census data showed.Imports of bloom, billet and slab dropped 27.4% to 170,272 tonnes in November from 234,434 tonne...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 23 that are worth another look.World crude steel production increased by 6.6% year on year in November, with China, Germany and Ukraine posting the largest increases.Chilean state copper producer Codelco has increased the...Read More

Seaborne iron prices fell further on Wednesday December 23, in response to the downtrend in futures and rising rebar inventories in northern China.Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $162.03 per tonne, down $2.50 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $162.36 per tonne, down $2.71 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $151.54 per tonne,...Read More

Sellers of Japanese scrap are looking to the domestic market instead of exports because of the higher margins that can be found there, market participants told Fastmarkets on Wednesday December 23.The massive increases in domestic scrap purchase prices by major Japanese mini-mill Tokyo Steel have also supported sentiment.The price-benchmark setter increased its purchase price for the 10th time in...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 23 that are worth another look.World crude steel production increased by 6.6% year on year in November, with China, Germany and Ukraine posting the largest increases.Chilean state copper producer Codelco has increased the...Read More

Iran's export prices for steel slab and billet rose over the week to Wednesday December 23 amid higher raw material prices and a shortage of semi-finished products globally. The Iranian export billet price is at its highest since March 2018 and the slab export price has hit its highest point since April 2018. Billet exports A total of 50,000 tonnes of Iranian billet was sold in two tenders during...Read More

World crude steel production increased by 6.6% year on year in November, with China, Germany and Ukraine posting the largest increases.A total of 158.3 million tonnes of crude steel was produced in November by the 64 countries that report their statistics to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel), compared with 147.8 million tonnes in the same month in 2019.China, the world's biggest steelmaking...Read More

Kevin O'Leary, chairman of O'Shares ETFs and star of Shark Tank, said that the digitization of America is here to stay, even if the economy opens up again. O'Leary has sold off his commercial real estate holdings to redeploy capital into the technology, healthcare, and consumer service sectors. On gold, O'Leary sees the metal as a hedge against inflation, and contrary to what some analysts think,...Read More

The same way George Soros broke the Bank of England, Max Keiser says that MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor's bet on bitcoin - and his firm's transfer of assets into the crypto - is an attack on central banks and the global central bank system. Bitcoin can trade 300,000 times more quickly "because central banks have left themselves open to this arbitrage," Keiser tells our Daniela Cambone as pa...Read More

Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More

Michael Saylor, Microstrategy CEO, discusses his bitcoin strategy, and recommends companies, including Apple, Tesla and Amazon, that are sitting on large mounds of cash, invest in bitcoin. He says it's not as volatile as it used to be and calls it the world's first engineered safe-haven investment.Read More

J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton's International Commodity Division, headquartered in New York City's Battery Park. He studied under David Johnston, head of Hutton's Commodity Division and Chairman of the COMEX. In the 1980s Mike began to develop his own momentum-based method of technical analysis. He learned early on that o...Read More