Every year around this time, we check in with raw materials for our popular commodities halftime report. This year, it wasn't even a competition. Precious metals were the big winners for the first six months of 2020. Spot gold took the first place position, rising over 17 percent, followed in second place by silver, up nearly 2 percent. Palladium rounded out the top three, essentially flat at...Read More
- Stefan GleasonMany retail businesses including grocery stores and fast food restaurants have been wrangling with a national coin shortage. Some are posting notices informing customers that they will need to pay in exact change or use alternative payment methods such as credit cards.What's driving this scarcity of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies?The answer from the U.S. Mint: COVID-19....Read More
House Rep, Alexander Mooney, introduced a Bill that would the first true audit of gold owned by the United States in more than 65 years. The Bill, if passed, would require a full assay, inventory and audit of the U.S. gold every 5 years. Currently the gold is being "safe-kept" by the Fed.The last time a Bill was introduced to audit the Fed, specifically the gold and gold swaps activity, the F...Read More
By: Gary SavageHere is what to look for on the gold breakout. Bullion banks are stuck in a large short position, they have covered some but have a significant problem. After multiple attempts, gold has broken out of this sideways/box. A break above $1,800 doesn't hold a lot of resistance, but holds the potential to be a false breakout: Stocks becoming dangerous:Gary Savagehttps://blog.smartmoney...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold 1796 area is a swing point, if taken out, then the market will head towards its 18-dma support around 1786 area. Doesn't mean the party is over:Read More
The fall in silver and gold is just profit taking and should be used to go long or invest. Crude oil should crash (on demand fundamentals) but is not even correcting. New investors of precious metals and industrial metals are waiting for correction to invest. Pension's funds have to give pensions to pensioners. They have increased their portfolio allocation to gold. Silver price will break past...Read More
Fastmarkets proposes to change the publication time of its Latin American steel price assessments to Friday at 2-3pm New York time from Friday 2-3pm London time.This proposal affects the following price assessments: Steel hot-rolled coil (dry) export, fob main port Latin America, $/tonne - MB-STE-0133 Steel hot-rolled coil import, cfr main ports South America, $/tonne - MB-STE-0102 ...Read More
Most steel scrap prices in Mexico fell during the week ended Friday July 10 amid slow demand, with the market affected by pessimism stemming from the monthly settlement in the United States.At least one scrap buyer has applied price cuts totaling 500 pesos ($22) per tonne since the end of June, while others have reduced prices by 300 pesos per tonne.Of the 10 grades of ferrous scrap tracked b...Read More
Noble Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller says urban home prices could decline as the coronavirus pandemic upends the workforce. He thinks the benefits of city living, such as restaurants, museums or theater shows, have been put into question during the coronavirus pandemic. Shiller is hopeful that inequality will get better in the short run and thinks the emerging "wartime spirit," like the on...Read More
Author John Rubino discusses the bursting of the financial bubble by the pandemic and how long governments and central banks can continue to extend the life of the economy with bailouts, deficits, money printing, and negative interest rates. He also gives his take on the US dollar, digital national currencies, the coming monetary reset, precious metals, the potential for civil unrest, and how indi...Read More
Dr. Ron Paul is a physician and former twelve-term congressman from Texas who ran for president in 2008. He is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Revolution: A Manifesto and End The Fed. An unwavering defender of the US Constitution, Paul has been an advocate of sound money, personal liberty, free markets, and international peace throughout his political career...Read More
Most of us expected equity markets to retest the March lows, but markets have defied that rationale. Markets are drawing support from extraordinary injections of liquidity from the Central Bank but the markets were overvalued prior to the outbreak of the pandemic, so correction from higher levels has been seen. In the USA, equity markets have gone up sharply, bond yields have moved to unprecedente...Read More
Gold and silver prices' upwards trajectory looks promising as long as central banks around the world continue to provide accommodative monetary policy; gold is headed to new all-time highs while silver has 30% more room to grow within a year, according to Todd Horwitz of BubbaTrading.com."Silver also looks great. I would expect silver to make a run at $25 before it's all over," he said. "$25 silve...Read More
0:00 Introduction1:02 Significance of Sprott Inc.'s recent NYSE listing?3:01 Will Sprott Lending be as profitable in a bull market as it was in the bear market?5:16 Discount rate used when analyzing development projects?7:51 When should a junior gold miner list on one of the large NY exchanges?12:31 Discussing quality management teams14:58 Trading Gold Stock Promotions Can Be Extraordinarily Profi...Read More
1. Markets reverse sharply lower yesterday afternoon after California Governor Newsom closed indoor businesses. This news sent the markets tumbling late in the session yesterday. Remember, the state of California is the 5th largest economy in the world. This type of thing happens every options expiration. 2. Bank earnings are starting to be reported. Earlier today, JPM, WFC and C all reported earn...Read More
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Turkish steel producers have resumed their deep-sea scrap purchasing at slightly higher prices, sources said on Tuesday July 14.A steel producer in the Iskenderun region booked a US cargo, comprising 15,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $257 per tonne, 27,000 tonnes of shredded at $262 per tonne and 3,000 tonnes of bonus at $267 per tonne cfr.This compared with transactions for US material at...Read More
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"The investigation is ongoing," the sheriff's office stated. "The motive for the shooting is unknown at this time."Continue...Read More
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 Medical Service Corps, having attained the rank of Lieute...Read More