"The pandemic-induced chip crisis has been exacerbated by events that are normally just bumps in the road for the auto industry, such as a fire in a key chip-making fabrication plant, severe weather in Texas and Continue...Read More

There have been few politicians in modern times who have done more to undermine personal liberty, capitalist prosperity, small government and especially world peace than the Cheney Clan. So upon Liz Cheney's Continue...Read More

As I have explained for decades, a Tower of Babel has no common ground. There are no shared values, no shared culture, no shared holidays, no shared history. Continue...Read More

This week, the Financial Times reported that Silver ETF assets surge to all-time high. Silver ETF assets surge to all-time high as retail investors pile in https://www.ft.com/content/22ee1221-1...However, there was misleading information and propaganda in the article as the article claimed that SLV is 100% backed by physical silver. This is despite many gold and silver experts including Trace Maye...Read More

The United States' pig iron import prices rose further during the week to Friday May 14, with suppliers bullish amid increased demand due to buyers' need to restock. Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US, was at $640-650 per tonne on Friday, up by $15-20 from $620-635 per tonne the previous week.Offers from Russia was heard in excess of $700 per tonne cfr...Read More

Surging steel demand in the majority of global markets pushed prices up in most regions in the week to Friday May 14. Only the United States deep-sea ferrous scrap market remained inactive, while Chinese scrap prices fell victim to softer prices for finished steel products.Turkey secured European scrap at an increase to satisfy surging finished steel demandHigher offers failed to tempt US exporter...Read More

Newmont's strategy behind its plan to maintain consistency is explored in a BMO Capital Markets report. In a May 11 research note, BMO Capital Markets analyst Jackie Przybylowski reported that the key takeaway from Newmont Corp.'s (NEM:NYSE) recent virtual roundtable for sellside analysts is that the company offers investors "stable and predictable operations and cash flows." "We continue to beli...Read More

An earnings update on Nomad Royalty Company is provided in a CIBC research report. Gold barsIn a May 11 research note, CIBC analyst Alex Hunchak reported Nomad Royalty Company Ltd.'s (NSR:TSX; NSRXF:OTCQX) Q1/21 financial results and progress at one of its royalty assets.Nomad prereported that quarterly sales of gold equivalent ounces (GEOs) in Q1/21 were a record high, at 5,575 GEOs, and include...Read More

Cross River Ventures Corp. reported it has commenced field work starting with prospecting and focused mapping at its Manitou Gold Project. In a news release, gold exploration company Cross River Ventures Corp. (CRVC:CSE; CSRVF:OTC; C6R:FWB) announced that it has commenced field operations at its wholly owned Manitou Gold Project. The company indicated that the field work includes prospecting and...Read More

The price of secondary steel billet in the Indian local market rose by 1,000 rupees ($14) per tonne in the week to Friday May 14 on rising raw material prices and an increase in export opportunities for secondary billet made through the induction furnace (IF) route."Prices of raw materials such as direct-reduction iron [DRI] have increased because most kilns have reduced production, while opportun...Read More

Slab export prices from Brazil increased again amid high demand and a volatile raw materials' market.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel slab export, fob main port Brazil was $950-980 per tonne on Friday May 14, up by $40-50 from $900-940 per tonne on May 7.Early in the week, offers and deals from Brazil were at $950 per tonne fob. But producers...Read More

The price of secondary steel billet in the Indian local market rose by 1,000 rupees ($14) per tonne in the week to Friday May 14 on rising raw material prices and an increase in export opportunities for secondary billet made through the induction furnace (IF) route."Prices of raw materials such as direct-reduction iron [DRI] have increased because most kilns have reduced production, while opportun...Read More

LONDON, 4 April 2021 - Comment from BullionVault features today in an article on the fall in gold prices from the Financial Times, the global newspaper of record for the investment markets."It [is] natural for gold to relinquish some of its gains after a very strong year in 2020," says the FT, quoting BullionVault's analysis."Investors might also be too optimistic about the end of the pandemic...T...Read More

LONDON, 06 April 2021 - Analysis of gold prices versus inflation from BullionVault is published today at Trustnet, the investment data and ratings service."The next few months will likely see inflation data push higher," says BullionVault's report, "as last spring's crash in commodity prices sets a low base for year-on-year comparisons."Shouldn't gold also be surging?"Read the full article at Trus...Read More

LONDON, 26 March 2021 - Leading German finance magazine Das Investment today carries an exclusive article on gold and inflation from BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash.You can read Adrian's analysis in German here:Was nach der Pandemie mit dem Goldmarkt passiert Read More

LONDON, 22 March 2021 - Comment from BullionVault is quoted today in a report on the drop in gold prices published at MSN, the news pages of software giant Microsoft's internet portal.Commodity markets slipped on Monday, explains Adrian Ash, director of research, "taking fright at the rise in borrowing costs spurred by their own bull market."Read the full report, first posted at MarketWatch, at MS...Read More

LONDON, 15 March 2021 - Comment from BullionVault features today at Morningstar, the financial news and investment rating service.Gold's current levels "look sticky," says director of research Adrian Ash, "because they mark an area of heavy congestion from last spring."Read Adrian's full comment, first published by MarketWatch, at Morningstar here:Gold climbs to its highest finish in almost 2 week...Read More

LONDON, 8 March 2021 - Comment from BullionVault features today in a report on the falling gold price published on Yahoo's Finance news-site."Long-term allocators will welcome the bargain," says BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash, "but for as long as bond yields keep ticking higher, the hot money is likely to start thinking gold is a sell."Read Adrian's full analysis, first posted at Mar...Read More

LONDON, 5 March 2021 - BullionVault's research director Adrian Ash was a guest today on ET Now, the financial news channel from India's Economic Times."Interest rates matter a lot to gold prices," Adrian explained of the current downturn in prices. "Gold is the ultimate hard asset...but it does not pay you any interest. So it is what people buy when they worry about losing purchasing power in curr...Read More

LONDON, 2 March 2021 - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the 3rd best-selling newspaper in Germany, today reports a surge of younger investors using BullionVault to buy gold."Not only has the demand for precious metals been particularly high," says FAZ of the data from BullionVault."There are also noticeably many new young customers."You can read the full report in German at FAZ here:Goldh??ndler: J...Read More