Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday May 6 that are worth another look.Recent changes in Chinese tax policy have resulted in significant rises in the prices for steel billet and finished long steel products from the CIS and...Read More

Inflammation does good and bad thingsfor the body. On the one hand, it is the body’s natural defense mechanismagainst physical injuries, viral infections, and bacterial infections. On theother hand, it produces symptoms of swelling, redness, and pain. Whenever a part of your body experiencestrauma, white blood cells flow to that body part to protect it. White bloodcells will kill the germs a...Read More

This young gold-stockupleg is accelerating, with fast-rising prices enticing in more capital.  This sector has surged sharply to multiplemajor upside breakouts in recent weeks, which is starting to turn skeptics intobelievers.  Despite their strong upside momentumbeing chased, gold-stock prices remain far from overbought levels warning ofimpending selloffs.  This mounting uplegstill...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday May 5 that are worth another look.German steel companies Thyssenkrupp Steel and H? 1/4 ttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are to jointly investigate setting up international supply chains for hydrogen.AfriTin Mining will increase production at its fledgling...Read More

US Treasuries are as much sought-out by investors in a crisis or pending crisis, but lately, Treasuries have become much less popular as a means of storing wealth.The reason is simple: T-bills don’t offer a good return, and neither do other sovereign debt instruments. Although US Treasury yields have been climbing, owing partly to expectations of inflation, in recent weeks this trend ha...Read More

As top officials around the world convenethis week for a “climate summit,” President Joe Biden’s administration isplanning the most radical expansion of government’s role in the economy sinceFDR’s New Deal.The objective is nothing short oftransitioning the entire U.S. and world economy to “clean energy” – asdetermined and directed by central planners...Read More

S&P 500 closed in the the red, vindicating my bearishsentiment going into Monday‘s session. And as I have tweeted during the day, the sellling doesn‘t appear to be over. Friday‘s: (…) selling wave before the close looks to indicatehesitation ahead. Even though VIX is attacking the 16 level, and the put/callratio ticked higher, the bulls are little disturbed thus far. W...Read More

Proposed changes to the London Metal Exchange's market structure may actually have the opposite effect to its desired intention: destroying liquidity, not increasing it.Attention has been focused on the proposed permanent closure of the LME ring, the incentivization of electronic trade and changes to margin methodology, which were central issues in the exchange's recently closed discussion paper.B...Read More

Several economic indicators have surprised us on the positive side. Nevertheless, the price of gold has rebounded.Finally! The price of gold has been rising recently . As the chart below shows, the yellow metal rebounded from the late March bottom of $1,684 to above $1,770 on Friday (Mar. 16). This could be a promising start to the second quarter of 2021, which looks better than the first. As you...Read More

The Shanghai Futures Exchange's plans to list ferro-chrome futures, potentially this year, will bring welcomed hedging opportunities and may weaken the dominance of China's stainless steel mills in the ore and alloy markets, participants told Fastmarkets.While no definite date or specifications of the ferro-chrome futures have been announced, Fastmarkets asked participants what changes these contr...Read More

Aluminium producer Rusal has appointed Bob Katsiouleris as director of market development and risk, it said on May 6.Katsiouleris previously held roles at Vale and Nyrstar and most recently was working at trading house Tiberius after being appointed to its executive management board in November 2020.He initially joined Rusal in 2015 as European sales director, before becoming export sales director...Read More

Gold rallied last week towardthe top of a down-trending channel that has been in force since prices peakedlast summer.Abreakout attempt in early January failed. The gold market subsequently slumpedto a potential double-bottom low in March around $1,675/oz.The $1,800 level now loomsas a critical technical juncture.The recent bounce couldeither fail around there… or gather the strength to fin...Read More

A culminating point has been reached.With the USD Index being backed up by solid fundamentals, can gold hold theline?Have you ever noticed how often thelanguage of war is used in finance and economics articles? A given company ison the defensive or the offensive, a stock is pushing forward, something elseis rallying, positions are being taken… who will fire first? It’s the case ofcont...Read More

The S&P 500 went back to relentless rallying onFriday, yet the selling wave before the close looks to indicate hesitationahead. Even though VIX is attacking the 16 level, and the put/call ratio tickedhigher, the bulls are little disturbed thus far – and they‘re unlikely to getupset. Whatever consolidation comes, would be a sideways one – one to bebought. That‘s the resu...Read More

China's new and stricter steel capacity swap ratios will cool the overheated steelmaking raw materials market and pave the way for more electric-arc furnaces to be used in its mammoth steel industry, market sources told Fastmarkets this week.The country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) updated regulations for steelmaking capacity swaps on Thursday May 6 to firmly reduce ste...Read More

Rising steel billet import prices in China and last week's elimination of the country's import tax on billet are set to provide a large boost for exporters of the semi-finished product, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday May 5.Until May 1, Chinese importers had to pay a 2% import duty on billet produced outside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). This meant that steelmakers from...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices maintained their upward momentum on Friday May 7, supported by strong demand, and ending the week with a rise of 240-250 yuan per tonne in the east and further growth in the north.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): steel reinforcing bar (rebar) domestic, ex-whs Eastern China, 5,420-5,450 yuan ($837-842) per tonne, up by 40-50 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing) week...Read More

He was, apparently, inserted as the "interim" chair of the CFTC because he is the ideal Wall Street hand-puppet, as evidenced by his setting up the CCP...by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research DynamicsNo, not that CCP, though it may as well be. The "CCP" in reference Comex paper silver manipulation is the Central Counterparty sub-committee of the CFTC. The CCP is the creation of Russ Benham, Chri...Read More

On the bright side, hiring in leisure and hospitality was notable...(by Half Dollar) The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its latest Employment Situation Report, commonly called the "Jobs Report", for April, 2021.The Jobs Report is going to start mattering again for many reasons, some of which are Armchair Quarterbackish in nature, such as influence of the unemployment rate and the labor f...Read More

Glaringly obvious...Chris Marcus with Sean on SGTreportChris Marcus from Arcadia Economics joins to me to discuss and expose the most glaringly obvious criminal banking fraud in world history. Thanks for tuning in.FULL SHOW NOTES AND LINKS HERE Read More