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

Swedish steelmakers SSAB no longer plans to acquire the Ijmuiden plant in the Netherlands off of Tata Steel, SSAB said on Friday January 29.Tata Steel initiated discussions with SSAB on the sale of its IJmuiden plant in the Netherlands and related downstream assets in November 2020. After the announcement, market sources said it would have allowed SSAB to increase its presence in Northern Europe.A...Read More

China's Baowu Steel Group, the world's largest steelmaker, is in talks with Shandong Iron & Steel Group Co for a potential merger.While a small segment of the steel market already had some knowledge of this development, particularly after Baowu Steel sent some of its company officials to Shandong Steel to conduct surveys on the topic of a merger, the matter became public after local media reported...Read More

General Motors (GM) plans to transition its entire light-duty vehicle fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2035, bringing an end to its production of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles. The automaker aims to go carbon neutral by 2040.A GM spokesperson told Fastmarkets that the company has set a goal to exclusively produce EVs in its light-duty fleet and discontinue producing internal combustion...Read More

Slab export prices from Brazil were unchanged in the week ended Friday January 29, with consumers cautious due to uncertainty in steel markets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel slab, export, fob main port Brazil remained at $760-780 per tonne fob on Friday.Producers have been trying to sustain offers at $780 per tonne fob in the US market, but buyers are holding back in an attempt to...Read More

That is a bullish omen for gold, as its subsequent upleg can accelerate after differential gold-ETF-share selling pressure ends.Read full newsRead More

That is a bullish omen for gold, as its subsequent upleg can accelerate after differential gold-ETF-share selling pressure ends.Read full newsRead More

High gold prices are boosting Ethiopia's mining revenue and attracting more investor interest in a sector that is largely dominated by artisanal and smaller players. Coronavirus-linked border closures...Read full newsRead More

Starter packs are available for just about every type of novice. The PC gamer usually gets a standard build — monitor, tower, keyboard — that can be added to. A home brewer can likewise pick up a still and ingredients to quickly begin their own line of quirky beverages. But investors usually have to choose from ETFs and indexes that are often too broad — or too narrow — for...Read More

The new year has already seen unlikely stocks picking up huge gains. From AMC to GameStop over the border, to Cineplex and BlackBerry closer to home, momentum abounds. But does this mean that Canadian investors should start getting in on highly risky speculative plays? Or is there a less volatile way to play value stocks? Let’s explore three value picks together that could beef up a portfoli...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday January 29 that are worth another look.South America's import prices for flat-rolled steel were mostly down during the week ended January 29, with China-origin material offered at lower levels for April shipment.The arrival of around a quarter...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday January 29 that are worth another look.South America's import prices for flat-rolled steel were mostly down during the week ended January 29, with China-origin material offered at lower levels for April shipment.The arrival of around a quarter...Read More

Silver was worth US$28.82 an ounce on the spot market at the time of writing, up 6.8%.Some retailers have reportedly stopped accepting orders for physical silver products due to unprecedented demand.Silver equities in Toronto shone, with Mexico-focused producer First Majestic Silver's share price (TSX: FR) jumping from below C$18 mid-week to a one-year high of $24.43.The miner told the regula...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday January 29 that are worth another look.South America's import prices for flat-rolled steel were mostly down during the week ended January 29, with China-origin material offered at lower levels for April shipment.The arrival of around a quarter...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday January 29 that are worth another look.South America's import prices for flat-rolled steel were mostly down during the week ended January 29, with China-origin material offered at lower levels for April shipment.The arrival of around a quarter...Read More

All of a sudden there is decentralization. Is inflation next? Also, the blast radius investment factor.We have it all covered in the latest Insights. Read More

Catherine Austin Fitts exposes the connections between Big Tech and the federal government and how they are engineering a system of planetary control.Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street investment banker, macroeconomic expert and publisher of The Solari Report https://solari.com/.Read More

Alasdair talks about the massive money printing and the eventual U.S. dollar collapse.Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. Read More

Join Mike Maloney for this must-watch update, in which he unravels the latest news on the current "silver squeeze". What will happen over the coming days and weeks? What about shortages of silver? Where could the price of silver go? It's all covered in this 35 minute presentation, thanks for sharing the video with friends and family. Michael Maloney is a precious metals investment expert and histo...Read More

Gregory Mannarino started his career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. After realizing that working on Wall Street was not like the movies, he moved on to get a medical degree and practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Lieute...Read More

The U.S. economy is extremely sick, terminal in fact, if a doctor were to describe it. Creating more is not going to solve the problem. It is the problem. It's the reason the economy is so sick, we'd been given a toxic dose of monetary stimulus. We've temporarily enriched the few at the expense of the many by inflating asset bubbles and undermining legitimate economic growth. Our guest this week o...Read More