Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday July 8 that are worth another look.The recovery in Chinese steel consumption, especially that for rebar, has been "extraordinary," while the downturn in the automotive sector may not necessarily mean stainless steel demand will decline this year, delegates heard at Fastmarkets' Covid-19 and Asian ferro-alloys markets webinar...Read More
Steel rebar prices were largely steady in Europe in the week to Wednesday July 8 with buying activity reported to be satisfactory in most regions. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Southern Europe was ?,?425-435 ($480-492) per tonne on Wednesday, narrowing from ?,?420-435 per tonne delivered last Wednesday. The assessment was based on...Read More
The price of hollow steel sections in Northern Europe widened on Wednesday July 8 with mills seeking to fill their order books before the seasonal summer slowdown, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel sections (medium), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?540-560 ($610-632) per tonne on Wednesday, widening downward from ?,?550-560 per tonne a week earlier.F...Read More
Deflation-oriented D-economy stocks are left behind in this month's Top 40 Stock Report. At the stock level, insiders are betting on an inflationary environment ahead. Like last month, mining stocks dominate the list. Read the report to see which stocks have raced up our rankings. The report is available free for Canadian Insider Club members. Non-member can purchase the report in the Canadian...Read More
Market participants in the US ferrous supply chain attending aFastmarkets webinar on June 30 expected prices to be largely stable in the coming months, but benchmark indicators continue to track downward as an uneven reopening of the United States economy clouds the outlook. About 62% of respondents to a poll held during the webinar - titled "Sunny days ahead?" - expected hot-rolled coil...Read More
Turkish steel producers have continued to stay away from the deep-sea scrap market so far this week because of weak demand for finished long steel, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 8.Mills in Turkey booked five deep-sea cargoes late last week, totalling around 140,000 tonnes.However, they went quiet at the beginning of the week after struggling to sell finished long steel products i...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Price uptrend stumbles, but expected to resumeAs we expected, Chinese export and domestic steel prices moved upward in June, settling within the 2% range of our forecasts. Rebar prices trended downward in the second half of the month while heavy rains and floods in parts of the country meant that some construction sites had...Read More
Iranian export steel billet prices increased in the week ended Wednesday July 8 with demand recovering in China.Chinese domestic rebar prices increased early this week amid restocking and rising futures, which resulted in a re-emergence of import activity in billet.According to market participants, bids for Iranian billet from China increased to $400 per tonne cfr on Monday and reached $405 per to...Read More
Jeff Clark, Senior Analyst, GoldSilverMost everyone you know is a member of a cult. It's not their fault, and they didn't consciously seek it out, but your friends and family and almost everyone you know and even come in contact with belong to a system that has brainwashed them.This cult is robbing them. And it's doing so clandestinely, without their knowledge or approval. It's so sly that they...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday July 8 that are worth another look.The recovery in Chinese steel consumption, especially that for rebar, has been "extraordinary," while the downturn in the automotive sector may not necessarily mean stainless steel demand will decline this year, delegates heard at Fastmarkets' Covid-19 and Asian ferro-alloys markets webinar...Read More
- Craig Hemke, TF MetalsFor as long as I can remember, I've stated that negative nominal and negative real interest rates are the key, primary driver for higher gold prices. And now we're seeing this play out in real time.First of all, what is the "real" interest rate? Simply put, it's the nominal or stated rate of a bond minus the inflation rate. Here's a definition from Investopedia:And here...Read More
By Hubert Moolman During the 70s bull market, gold went from $35 to $195 in the first phase. That was a 458% increase. The first phase of the current bull market took gold from $252 to $1920, which made for a 661% increase. At first glance, it would appear that the current bull market outperformed the 70s one. However, it only took about five years (1970 to 1975) to get the 458% increase, co...Read More
Kirkland Lake Gold has been one of the biggest winners over the past 5yrs, propelling itself from a 160k oz. Au producer to what has emerged [along with Endeavour Mining] as the next senior gold producer [1m oz. of production or greater]. Kirkland Lake has a great asset to start, the Kirkland Lake mining complex, notably the Macassa mine, which has taken several years to optimize and will reach...Read More
Gold is bullish. Spot gold will rise very quickly on a break of $1810. Federal Reserve policy makers pledged more support by way of more bond buying. I never understood how printing more money leads to way out of a pandemic or a recession. Central banks are not addressing the core economic fundamentals of (a) Reduction in the cost of living like school fees and college fees. (b) Creation more in...Read More
The recent resurgence of Covid-19 infections in Beijing is not expected to exert any significant impact on the domestic ferro-alloys market, delegates heard at Fastmarkets' "Covid-19 and Asian ferro-alloys market" webinar on Tuesday June 30. "I think [despite] the [new outbreak of Covid-19 cases] in Beijing, the influence [on the domestic ferro-alloys market] is quite slight, or [we can say there...Read More
Spot gold is telling you and me that gold is preparing for the financial system reset and the smartest money in the room has been accumulating physical gold at very cheap prices. In my opinion and technically speaking, I believe this is your last opportunity to buy physical gold and silver this cheap. If gold is getting ready for the reset, shouldn't you?Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief...Read More
With gold breaking out again and the stocks, both large and small, moving higher it has everyone wondering just how early stage is this bull market. Jordan Roy-Byrne discussest the significance of these breakouts for the metal and stocks. He discusses whether he thinks this is still the early stages of the bull market and also where he sees value in precious metals stocks.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is...Read More
Ronni St??ferle and Egon von Greyerz meet to talk about current events in the global economy as well as gold. The scene is set - there is a total disconnect between markets and reality, as gold reaches the highest levels in a decade. COVID infects millions, markets crash, unemployment numbers are soaring, companies haemorrhaging cash, and despite all that, stocks are at all-time highs. We had a wa...Read More
"JP Morgan has been accumulating all this silver and shorting against it as a hedge, managing the price and monopolistically controlling it. Now, the COMEX is a delivery vehicle, and people were standing for delivery. JP Morgan was short nearly 6,000 contracts (of silver) on delivery day, and JP Morgan had to deliver (29 million ounces of physical silver). In doing so, they have now reduced their...Read More
"Without cash moving you can't have hyperinflation."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 practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant. He also served in the United States Naval Reserve Medic...Read More