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
Chinese lithium spot carbonate prices have started to move higher and this is likely to underpin a recovery across the whole lithium complex, according to William Adams, Fastmarkets head of battery raw materials research and base metals."The Chinese spot price has led [lithium] prices on the way up and led prices on the way down, with the cif Asian prices and the Europe and North American prices f...Read More
Latest analysis from recent activity on the CME's cobalt metal futures contract, cash-settled against Fastmarkets' price assessment for cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam. Key data Jan 20, 2021, 30 tonnes (10 tonnes each for March ($17.95 per lb), April ($18.00 per lb), May ($18.05 per lb)) Jan 11, 2021, 15 tonnes (5 tonnes each for February, March and April, all at $17.45 per lb)&n...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States again edged lower, even as buyers have continued to struggle to find spot tonnage at the domestic mills.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $55.04 per hundredweight ($1,100.80 per short ton) on Friday January 22, down by 0.85% from $55.51 per cwt the previous day and 3.30% lower than $56.92 per cwt a week prior.I...Read More
Import prices for flat-rolled steel in South America softened in the week ended Friday January 22 with some Chinese mills accepting lower bids from clients."Some small-sized, privately owned mills in China are taking lower bids as long as they're in cash payment, in order to fund [their operations]," one trader source told Fastmarkets."Last week and this week," a source at a mill added, "we saw a...Read More
Harley Schlanger's work can be found at LaRouchePAC.com and The Schiller Institute.Read More
For Part 1 of this interview, CLICK HEREWhether or not bitcoin should be a reserve currency should be left to the free markets to decide, said Ron Paul, former Congressman and host of the Liberty Report.0:00 - Bitcoin as reserve currency?4:35 - Gold price fixing?6:50 - Foreign policy8:49 - Censorship11:37 - Advice for the younger generationsDr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congre...Read More
Link to Viewer Submitted Questions: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/futur...Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that w...Read More
Legendary resource investor Rick Rule joins us this week, subbing in for Eric Sprott. He discusses the bull market in precious metals, his outlook on the mining shares and his opinion on battery metals and uranium.Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd., began his career in the securities business in 1974. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mi...Read More
Editor's note: This podcast will be behind a paywall starting in February.*The interview begins at 04:21Bill and Grant welcome Paul Singer, Founder, President, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Elliott Investment Management L.P.Among the topics covered in this extremely rare and endlessly fascinating conversation are Paul's thoughts on the importance of understanding m...Read More
According to this chart, there's an absolutely enormous gap between US government spending and US government annual tax revenues. This explains why the US federal government budget deficits are so large. The largest in over 75 years to be exact. Biden is not in office for a week and the Fed's official balance sheet already increased by ~$81 billion in the last week to a record $7.4 trillion. The F...Read More
Economist Danielle DiMartino Booth sits down with Vikram Mansharamani to talk about a wide range of topics from Big Data and how they are tracking people, India as a growing power, Bitcoin and gold comparison, China, Taiwan and US relations, why we should push to explore more in space and on the moon, a third political party and the belief people have in the US dollar as the reserve currency. Oder...Read More
2020 will forever live in history books as the COVID-19 year. More than the health crisis, it has brought on an economic crisis that will greatly impact the future. What did people do to survive it? What lessons can we learn from those who did that will help us face the challenges that are to come? Patrick Donohoe has someone with the answers. In this episode, he sits down with none other than Jam...Read More
"We're no longer in the eye [of the hurricane]. I think we're going into the trailing edge now."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 em...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
Miles Franklin CEO Andy Schectman returns to Liberty and Finance to offer an update on the current state of the gold & silver retail markets in this US presidential inauguration week. Andy Schectman is the President and CEO of Miles Franklin Ltd. Precious Metals.Read More
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