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

Steel slab exporters from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are testing the market with a new round of offer increases, supported by the continuing uptrend in the raw materials and finished flat steel products sectors, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday September 8.A Russian producer shipping material from the country's Far East ports was heard to have agreed several deals last week around $4...Read More

There was options-related optimism ready to unwindSubscribers to Schaeffer's Options Advisor service scored a 100% profit with the Western Digital Corp (NASDAQ:WDC) April 47.50 put we recommended. We'll take a closer look at why WDC appeared on our bearish radar, and how the winning options trade unfolded.In the latest December issue of Options Advisor, Western Digital stock had already shed 50%...Read More

Bloomberg Is gold about to go full bull? Let's check some charts to see. Before we do, here are some basic price facts: Gold GC00, +0.05% peaked in 2011 at just above $1,900 an ounce. Since then, it's been an exercise in dread for gold bugs. (Disclosure: I have no positions in gold.) Gold bottomed in early 2016 and now it's back in the same price range as it's been since 2013. So, basically, the...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

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Gold has been caught in a broad trading range for the last two months, but one precious metals analysts said that a laundry list of fundamental factors supports the market.In June, Jeff Clark, senior precious metals analyst at Goldsilver.com, recommended that investors be overweight in gold. Although market volatility has picked up, he said he hasn't seen anything that has changed his bullish outl...Read More

A summary of base metals premiums from across the globe for the week to Tuesday August 20. Please click...Read More

The similarities to Lehman are growing by the day.Read full newsRead More

(IDEX Online) - Two cases of attempted frauds involving synthetic moissanite are highlighted in the GIA's latest quarterly journal Gems & Gemology.In one case a 7.42-ct rough stone, presented to its New York lab, had been carved into an octahedron, with stepped edges and coarse textures deliberately chosen to imitate the appearance of a natural diamond.In the other, what appeared to be a...Read More

Prices fluctuations for heavy melting scrap (HMS) imports in Taiwan have caused an unclear price outlook in the near term.Market participants from major supplier Japan had just returned from a holiday on Thursday May 7 and buyers were waiting for clearer price trends for Japanese cargoes."Taiwan had increased the purchases for Japanese materials in the past few weeks because of limited supply from...Read More

Stocks resumed their 2018 rally today, with all three major indexes reaching a fresh record high. The impressive gains can be mostly accredited to the energy sector, with Chevron(CVX) stock leading the Dow's triple-digit rally. Traders also digested the latest inflation data, andWalmart (WMT) plans to boost wages and expand employee benefits following tax reform. Looking ahead, Wall Street will ha...Read More

Rio Tinto has committed $2.4 billion to the Jadar lithium-borates project in Serbia, which expects first saleable production in 2026, the company said.Jadar, currently one of the world's largest greenfield lithium projects, remains subject to receiving all relevant approvals, permits and licenses, plus ongoing engagement with local communities, the Serbian government and civil society.According to...Read More

CBS and Viacom recently announced plans to combineYesterday, CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS) announced an agreement to merge with Viacom (VIAB) in an all-stock deal, creating an entity -- ViacomCBS -- with more than $28 billion in revenue. Today, analysts weighed in on the deal, with Bernstein downgrading CBS stock to"underperform" from "outperform," while cutting its price target to $46 from $62....Read More

Western Australia-based miner South32 will sell its entire stake in manganese alloy smelter Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Co (Temco) to UK-based conglomerate GFG Alliance, it said on Thursday August 13.The miner - which is listed on the stock exchanges in London, Australia and Johannesburg - owns manganese ore and alloy assets in South Africa and Australia through its stake in Samancor Manganese...Read More

Fastmarkets is proposing to amend the specifications of cobalt hydroxide prices in order to reference a threshold for maximum iron content.Following an initial discussion with market participants, Fastmarkets is proposing to tighten the chemical specifications of the cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China, % payable of Fastmarkets' standard-grade cobalt price (low end) and the c...Read More

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As the lithium growth play continues to shape up over time, Lithium Americas (TSX:LAC)(NYSE:LAC) and its more advanced counterpart Nemaska Lithium are two very promising pure-play lithium stocks on the TSX that have gone through severe pain during the past year. Could a lithium growth play deliver better returns in 2019?Forecasted growth in lithium demand driven mainly by future electrical vehic...Read More

Turkish steel producers continued to book deep-sea scrap cargoes and also confirmed other earlier transactions on Friday October 26, pushing prices upward.Details came to light on the two cargoes reported on Thursday.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $333 per tonne cfr and 5,000 tonnes of bonus grade at $342 per tonne cfr.Ad...Read More

Inflation is back, and that’s usually depicted as good for gold. But is the yellow metal still a hedge against inflation, or has something changed?Inflation has returned. This is partly understandable. After all, during the Covid recession , consumers and businesses accumulated a lot of cash as their spending was reduced, while revenues were sustained by money transfers from the government....Read More

Gold futures rallied by nearly 2% on Tuesday to log their highest finish since April, as the stock market assumed a defensive stance on the back of the latest round of talks in the U.S.-China trade spat. Financial markets await the latest trade developments, as discussions resumed Tuesday in Washington. A 90-day tariff truce between the parties is set to end at the start of March. President Trump...Read More