The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Stainless steel prices and margins for stainless steel producers have risen notably over the past few months in both Europe and the United States, but there are now signs that the rally is petering out.A clear reason for the halt to rising prices comes from the near 20% drop in nickel prices seen in late February/early March,...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.With nickel prices down by almost 20% over the space of around ten days during late February and early March, one might have been expecting us to be reporting sharply-lower prices of stainless steel, at least for the most common nickel-containing grades of stainless steel.This is not the case, at least in Europe and the Unite...Read More

The growing market for electric vehicles is likely to see increased pressure for nickel, a critical component for the nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) batteries used in EVs, Ken Hoffman, senior expert at McKinsey's Basic Materials Institute, said during The Northern Miner's Global Mining Symposium in May.In an interview with Frik Els, executive editor of MINING.com, Hoffman said that sales of EVs rea...Read More

For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.The madam who lured Blessing to the landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso with promises of a hair salon job, threatened to kill her if she tried to run away."Nobody comes to your re...Read More

SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) - For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing,...Read full newsRead More

SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) - For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing,...Read full newsRead More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday May 21 that are worth another look.The export price for pig iron from the south of Brazil increased again in the week to May 21, on continuing strong demand and long lead times, with suppliers said to be sold...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday May 21 that are worth another look.The export price for pig iron from the south of Brazil increased again in the week to May 21, on continuing strong demand and long lead times, with suppliers said to be sold...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday May 21 that are worth another look.The export price for pig iron from the south of Brazil increased again in the week to May 21, on continuing strong demand and long lead times, with suppliers said to be sold...Read More

We spoke with Martin Kepman, CEO of Manganese X Energy Corp. (TSXV: MN, FSE: 9SC2, OTCQB: MNXXF), who are advancing their Battery Hill manganese project, located in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Manganese X plans to advance the Battery Hill project into production, with the intent of supplying value-added materials to the lithium-ion battery and other alternative energy industries. The C...Read More

Economist John Williams, founder of ShadowStats.com, says the Federal Reserve has painted itself into such a tight corner with the economy it really has only two choices. Williams says it comes down to "Inflation or Implosion."Walter J. "John" Williams has been a private consulting economist and a specialist in government economic reporting for more than 30 years. His economic consultancy is calle...Read More

For This Week in Charts Episode #5, Aaron talks about how this was stock options expiry week in US stock markets and how Bitcoin and other crypto currencies may keep crashing. Aaron also gives updates on gold and silver breaking out and oil along with new chart analysis of US natural gas prices and the platinum group metals. Follow Aaron Basile: Twitter: https://twitter.com/aaronbasileYouTube: htt...Read More

We've seen The Fed pull their levers excessively over the last year and a half. Today me and Luke will uncover inflation, the unprecedented money printing, as well as gold, and Bitcoin.Luke Gromen is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University. He earned the CFA designation in 2003. Luke provides strategic consulting services for corporate e...Read More

Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiaries. Read More

Bitcoin on sale! What could be better? Robert Kiyosaki has been seeing a lot of fear in the market these past couple of days due to flashy headlines but the truth is that the regulation behind bitcoin is not big news. We cover the details and education behind his latest tweet: "Bitcoin crashing. Good news. Getting ready to buy more. Remember the problem is not Elon Musk or Bitcoin. The problems ar...Read More

Mr. Keith R. McCullough is the Founder and CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management LLC. He covers the strategy sector at the firm. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. McCullough was a Partner, Portfolio Manager, and Managing Director at the Carlyle-Bluewave Partners hedge fund. Prior to that, he was a Portfolio Manager at Magnetar Capital; a Founder, Managing Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager at Falconhenge Par...Read More

*The interview begins at 1:20Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com. Bix has dedicated his efforts over the last 15 years to exposing the long term manipulation of the gold and silver markets. He has worked closely with the Gold Anti-Trust...Read More

Greg joins Wall Street Silver to discuss his thoughts on Silver, government digital currencies, central banks and his battles with social media.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 practice...Read More

Max and Stacy discuss: - Pleb vs toff- Misappropriation of diamond hands- Approaching bitcoin with humility- The value of libertyMax and Stacy are joined by Jan Capek and Edward Evenson of SlushPool.com to discuss: - The 'China controls bitcoin' FUD- The 'bitcoin is boiling the oceans' FUD- The Great Hashrate Migration- The beauty of the nonceMax Keiser is a former stockbroker and an American broa...Read More

Earlier this month, just hours after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) dragged Anthony Fauci over pandemic misinformation - and the fact that Fauci's NIH Continue...Read More