Last night we noted the Czechs had the dubious honor of suffering the first yield curve inversion of this cycle...The first inversion of many pic.twitter.com/wNPpbhcbM6- zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 28, 2021Then overnight saw the stress spread to Australia's bond market, as a massive move higher in 2Y Yields undoubtedly triggered chaos in risk control departments.And that VaR shock is now s...Read More

A healthy price arbitrage for Japanese hot-rolled coil producers to export into steel markets in the Americas has enabled these mills to keep raising their steel scrap buying prices in recent months, sources told Fastmarkets.Japanese HRC exports to the Americas totaled 1.36 million tonnes in January-August 2021 under HS codes 7208 and 722530, up by 37.6% year on year, according to statistics from...Read More

Oct 28 (Reuters) - Jiangxi Copper Co,one of China's biggest copper producers, saw profits fall 33% inJuly-September from the previous quarter as prices for the metaldipped after a stellar rally. Copper prices surged to a record high this year as demandfor the metal widely used in power and construction reboundedamid a supply crunch after coronavirus curbs were lifted, butprices pared back some of...Read More

Buy-side sentiment in key Asian steel scrap markets has been hurt by news that Chinese trading firms were offering Southeast Asian buyers steel billet which was already imported into China, together with recent falls in the scrap price in Turkey, sources said on Thursday October 28.?EUR?Easing bulk freight costs reduce Bangladesh deep-sea bulk scrap prices?EUR?China import demand muted after steel...Read More

With the Atlanta Fed cutting its GDPNow estimate to just 0.2% yesterday...... there were big worries that today the BEA could reveal a shocker of a number, one far below the rapidly falling consensus estimate of 2.6%. Well, the Q3 GDP number just came out and it was bad, but not nearly as bad as it could have been: at 2.0%, it did indeed miss the 2.6% consensus by a lot but it could have been far...Read More

SAO PAULO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale SA will resume operations at its Onca Puma nickel mine,it said on Thursday, after obtaining a federal court orderlifting an injunction that had suspended an operating licence.Operations at Onca Puma were first halted in early Octoberbecause of alleged non-compliance with local regulations.A judge granted Vale an injunction on Oct. 7 allowing it to...Read More

By Helen Reid JOHANNESBURG, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Regulations governingdeep-sea mining will take longer to finalise due to the globalpandemic, a group of Latin American countries said, creatinguncertainty for companies looking to mine the sea bed formetals, including cobalt and nickel. The delayed negotiations also pose a potential difficultyfor companies seeking financing from investors to mine the...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Thursday that her engagement with China is aimed at reducing the temperature of a trading relationship between the world's two largest economies that has become dangerously heated.Tai, speaking at a meeting of the National Chicken Council, said that the U.S.-China relationship has reached a point where "it feels kind of like a...Read More

Oct 28 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes rose on Thursday as upbeat quarterly earnings from Caterpillar, Merck and Ford helped investors shrug off data that showed U.S. economic growth slowed sharply in the third quarter.Ford Motor Co (F.N) jumped 11.2% after the carmaker topped third-quarter profit estimates and raised its full-year earnings forecast. read moreCaterpillar Inc (CAT.N) ad...Read More

"Supporting Northeastern Ontario's entrepreneurs and small and medium business owners has never been more important," said Greg Rickford, Minister of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry. "Business growth is key to healthy regional economies and communities. With this funding, our government continues to strengthen economic diversification and job creation across the North."...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

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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) - Gold pricesare moderately higher in early U.S. trading Thursday, in the wake of a U.S. GDPreport that was downbeat and which fell into the camp of the U.S. monetarypolicy doves, who want the Federal R...Read More

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden made a last-minute trip to Congress on Thursday to push a new $1.75 trillion framework for economic and climate change spending, after weeks of squabbling between progressives and moderates in his party.Biden, who is delaying a trip to Europe to secure an agreement on his domestic policy priorities, is confident he will win backing from b...Read More

A summary of production figures and financial results from Finnish metal producer Terrafame for the third quarter of 2021, as stated in its earnings report released on Thursday October 28.In brief Strong year-on-year gains in nickel and zinc output during the September quarter reflect low production figures in the comparison period due to a long maintenance shutdown. Net sales climbed almost 25% i...Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Imperial Metals Corp. (III-TSX) has released 2021 third quarter production numbers for the has Red Chris copper-gold mine in northwestern British Columbia.The company said Red Chris produced 17.2 million pounds of copper and 15,249 ounces of gold in the third quarter, compared to 17.6 million pounds of copper and 15,451 ounces of gold in the second quarter of 2021.I...Read More

Share this article TORONTO - Golden Star Resources Ltd. [GSC-TSX; GSSA-NYSE American; GSR-Ghana] provided an update on the continued drilling programs within its 90%-owned Wassa mining concession in Ghana where there are currently three surface diamond drill rigs working. The Ghana government has a 10% carried interest.Two of the surface rigs continue to test the up and down dip extensions of the...Read More

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will push for his party and the nation to coalesce around a trimmed-down domestic spending plan on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter.Biden is expected to sketch the outlines of a deal that he thinks can unite the Democratic Party, which narrowly controls the legislature but has struggled to agree to a deal.He plans to tra...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes unexpectedly fell in September likely as some potential buyers delayed purchases amid higher prices.The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on Thursday its Pending Home Sales Index, based on signed contracts, decreased 2.3% last month to 116.7. Pending home sales fell in all four regions.Economists polled by Reuters had fo...Read More

NEW YORK/LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Global equities retreated from record highs on Thursday, while safe-haven gold rose after the U.S. economy grew at its slowest pace in more than a year in the third quarter, hit by an uptick in COVID-19 infections and shortages caused by stretched supply chains.U.S. gross domestic product increased at a 2% annualized rate last quarter, slowest since the second q...Read More