Mohamed A. El-Erian discusses the key elements, both domestic and international, of a healthy global economic response to the coronavirus pandemic.Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El...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

Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, President of the Energy Prospectus Group (EPG) https://energyprospectus.com/, Dan Steffens. Dan Steffens is the President of Energy Prospectus Group (EPG), a networking organization based in Houston, Texas. He is a 1976 graduate of Tulsa University with an undergraduate degree in Accounting and a Masters in Taxation. Mr. Steffens beg...Read More

The pig iron market in the United States was silent during the week ended Friday July 17, with prices considered high compared with those for ferrous scrap and hot-rolled coil.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US was unchanged at $330 per tonne on Friday, in line with the latest deal done in the market during the week to July 10.No interest was rep...Read More

Turkish steel producers continued their deep-sea scrap purchases at the end of the week at slightly higher prices, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday July 17.A steel mill in Northern Turkey booked a Baltic Sea cargo, comprising 8,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $260 per tonne, 14,000 tonnes of shredded at $265 per tonne and 4,000 tonnes of bonus at $270 per tonne cfr.Another steel mill in the Izm...Read More

"Chinese government censors don't need to say a word, because Hollywood is doing their work for them."Continue...Read More

Nowadays, Silver has one thing that gold does not - affordability and abundance.Continue...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

Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More

"Not a great look to be posing poolside during a pandemic and probable [economic] depression." Continue...Read More

The United States logged 77,255 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, shattering its record single-day spike by nearly 10,000Continue...Read More

"The outlook remains highly uncertain," Lagarde said. Continue...Read More

Topics:Why I interrupted Joe Rogan.Are capitalists mean?Dictionaries changed the definition of inflation.Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is...Read More

The CIS export steel billet market had become firmer by the end of the current week with more customers accepting higher prices, spurred by rising raw materials costs globally and continuing positive sentiment in China.A large cargo of Ukrainian billet was reported sold to China at $415 per tonne cfr, equivalent to $370-375 per tonne fob Black Sea.Deals from the Black Sea basin were rare in China...Read More

The Critical Investor examines the latest news from this junior with a flagship copper-zinc project in Portugal, which also includes finalizing a joint venture with MATSA and preparing for the season's drill program. As gold stocks are getting all the attention at the moment, with gold firmly in an upward trend, it seems, one could almost forget the existence of base metal juniors. This is not e...Read More

Bob Moriarty of 321gold discusses a junior that is exploring a past-producing gold mine in Nevada. Alta Gold went bankrupt in April of 1999 due to low gold prices. They had an existing gold producing mine near Ely in Nevada they called the Griffon Mine. Nevada Sunrise picked up the project almost twenty years ago but didn't move it forward. Nevada Sunrise was bought out by Pilot Gold. Pilot chang...Read More

Gold Standard Ventures and its new investor agree to a series of financing transactions valued at US$22 million. Gold Standard Ventures Railroad-PinionIn a news release, Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (GSV:TSX.V; GSV:NYSE) announced a strategic partnership with Orion Mine Finance who has agreed to invest US$22.5 million in the company."We are very pleased to announce our strategic partnership with...Read More

Demand for Japanese steel scrap in key Vietnam import markets continued this week with domestic steelmakers sourcing the raw materials to churn out billet for Chinese buyers, sources said."A lot of spot demand for scrap in Asia is now [coming from] Vietnamese steel mills, which are betting on the Chinese appetite for billet imports to continue," a mill source in Asia told Fastmarkets on Friday Jul...Read More

Key data from the pricing sessions in Europe, Asia and the United States for the week ended Friday July 17.China The domestic market remained stable in the week ended Friday July 17, with limited spot trading, after many suppliers had sold out their cargoes available for this month. A number of smelters restarted their...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Prices hold, pipe buying stalls Seamless prices remained broadly stable in much of the world this month - with the notable exception of falling Japan fob prices, because oil and gas producers have been less inclined to fight for premium products as they cut their capital expenditure - but this was not the result of a balance...Read More