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
Oleg Novachuk and Vladimir Kim, the current and past chairman of Kaz Minerals (LSE: KAZ), are proposing a buyout offer of the pure-play copper company.Their company, Nova Resources, in which they own a 36.5% and 63.5% stake, respectively, already owns about 186 million shares of Kaz Minerals.Nova Resources is offering to buy Kaz Minerals for ?3 billion in cash at a price of 640 pence a share, whi...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 17 points at 8:30 AM EDT.Investors are waiting for a statement on FOMC interest rate expectations to be presented today by Federal Reserve Chairman Powell at the Jackson Hole symposium.Affirm added $0.97 to $14.80 after reporting higher than consensus fiscal first quarter results. The company also raised guidance for t...Read More
Physical iron ore trading slowed on Tuesday April 30 ahead of the May Day holiday in China on May 1-4, while prices strengthened on news of production restrictions on mills in Tangshan.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $94.17 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $0.12 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $93.20 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $0.37 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $97.27 per ton...Read More
The Covid-19 pandemic may well provide Freeport-McMoRan with a silver lining it had never expected. The US copper producer is discussing with the government of Indonesia what should be done with the planned smelter in the Gresik region in the province of East Java. It has been forced to delay the completion timeline of December 2023 for the plant, due both to Covid-19-related disruptions to the wo...Read More
Prices paid for flat steel imports into the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia decreased in the week ended Tuesday July 30, with demand improving in the latest deals heard.Buying was strong this week in the UAE, with several new orders being placed.UAEOffers of hot-rolled coil (HRC) imports from China to the UAE came in at $500-505 per tonne cfr, but no major deals were heard.Ukraine offered si...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.This article first appear in Forbes on Oct 7, 2018. After a positive start to 2018, growing trade tensions have raised concerns over global economic growth, while tightening global liquidity is having an adverse effect on many em...Read More
Lackluster trading in gold futures Thursday gave way to a solid move higher, as tepid trade in equity markets and persistent worries about U.S.-China trade tensions and sluggish global economic growth helped lift prices to their highest finish in roughly two weeks. Gold for August delivery on Comex GCM19, +0.23% climbed $6.10, or 0.5%, to settle at $1,292.40 an ounce. That was the highest finish f...Read More
(Reuters) - The White House struggled on Wednesday to contain the furor over President Donald Trump’s heavily criticized summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, denying Trump ever meant to say that Moscow was no longer targeting the United States.Trump, facing a political uproar over his failure to confront Putin during their Helsinki summit on Monday over Russia’s 2016 U.S. elec...Read More
The recent "traffic jam" in the Suez Canal has added to the shipment delays affecting some minor metals whose markets are highly dependent on supplies out of China, and has already sent some prices to multi-year highs.Transit through the pivotal Suez Canal shipping lane has been blocked by the large containership Ever Given since late on March 23, creating a traffic jam involving more than 100 ves...Read More
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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
The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb at 22.00-22.95 on Monday June...Read More
As the world transitions from deflation to inflation, investors need to engage in serious sector rotation or they risk being left behind.Income growth in China/India, US government tax cuts, central bank rate hikes, and quantitative tightening are the main fundamental forces of this transition.The paint is barely dry on Trump's first tranche of tax cuts, and he's already talking about round two!Tr...Read More
By David Brady, CFATwenty-five percent tariffs on $200bln or 40% of China's exports to the U.S. are due to go into effect today or shortly thereafter. There seems little doubt that the U.S. will proceed with these tariffs: the U.S.' trade deficit with China hit a new record high in July. All that remains to be determined is how they will implement them and how will China respond? The tariffs co...Read More
Trade log for cobalt sulfate in China including transactions, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets MB. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are yuan per tonne on an ex-works basis.The cobalt sulfate, Co 20.5% min, China ex-works, adjustment to the low-grade cobalt low-end price at Co 20.5% basis is on a $ per lb basis.Fastmarkets MB prices Click here for...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The third quarter of 2018 was unsatisfactory and group revenue decreased 3% in local currency due to timing of shipments, change of inventory levels in the wholesale channel and negative total like-for-like, the jewelry-maker reported. Due to the unsatisfactory Q3 2018 performance, a lower than expected tailwind from forward integration as well as a weak start to the fourth...Read More
Editor's Note: With so much market volatility, stay on top of daily news! Get caught up in minutes with our speedy summary of today's must-read news and expert opinions. Sign up here! (Kitco News) - China's gold consumption in the first nine months of 2021 rose amassive 48.4% on the year to 813.59 tonnes, according to the China GoldAssociation. This came as demand recovered from a pandemic-affecte...Read More
Next Tech Talk report is released on Friday. U.S. equity markets are closed tomorrow. Trading activity in Canadian equity markets are expected to be low. U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 7 points at 8:30 AM EDTU.S. equity markets close today at 1:00 PM EDT.Gold gained $30.10 to US$2,363.40 per ounce in overnight trade.Eli Lilly gained $3.29 to $910.0...Read More
By Frank HolmesStrengths? The best performing metal this week was palladium, up 2.39 percent. In terms of gold, traders and analysts were bullish on the yellow metal this week after being split in the previous week, according to the Bloomberg weekly survey. The bullishness is driven by uncertainty over the future leadership of Italy and Spain, which could lead investors to gold. H...Read More
In his March 12th Discovery Watch broadcast, John Kaiser from Kaiser Research Online addresses the question about the future of junior mining exploration in Nevada in wake of the announced deal between Barrick Gold (ABX) and Newmont Mining (NEM) to pool their assets in the state into one giant joint-venture.Barrick-Newmont joint venture map (click for larger) He also suggests keeping a close eye...Read More