"We're looking at all of the productive options to address both the economic reasons people may be migrating, as well as the protection and security reasons," she said.Continue...Read More

Automotive manufacturer Volvo Group and Swedish steelmaker SSAB have signed a collaboration agreement for the research, development, serial production and commercialization of the world's first vehicles to be made of fossil-free steel, the companies said on Thursday April 8. Volvo plans to start the production of concept vehicles and components produced from steel made by SSAB using hydrogen this...Read More

Hybrit, the joint venture involving Swedish steelmaker SSAB, iron-ore producer LKAB and power company Vattenfall, will build a hydrogen storage facility as part of its plans for fossil-free steel production, it announced on Wednesday April 7. Hybrit will build a rock cavern storage facility for fossil-free hydrogen gas next to its pilot facility for direct reduction in Lule??, Sweden.The inve...Read More

Tata Steel's recycling business in India is to offer domestically produced shredded material to the Indian market, adding to its existing offering, the company told Fastmarkets on Wednesday April 7.Yogesh Bedi, chief of Tata Steel Recycling Business, told Fastmarkets the company was in the final stages of commissioning a shredder, which would let the company offer domestically produced shredded sc...Read More

It’s tempting to say that miners areshowing strength compared to gold based on the GDX’s performance, but othermining proxies say otherwise.Just because a house is standing doesn'tmean its foundations are solid, and that's exactly the case with the miners.There’s one extra thing that I would liketo point out about mining stocks’ technical picture today (Apr. 8), and that&rs...Read More

Proposed changes to the London Metal Exchange's market structure may actually have the opposite effect to its desired intention: destroying liquidity, not increasing it.Attention has been focused on the proposed permanent closure of the LME ring, the incentivization of electronic trade and changes to margin methodology, which were central issues in the exchange's recently closed discussion paper.B...Read More

No system, metals nor the monetary system, will survive based on lies. Once confidence is lost, the system will have to revert to...Craig Hemke and John Adams on Palisades Gold RadioCraig discusses his recent call on shortages beginning in particular mints. Some of the entities like the Comex are too big to fail, and like the LBMA, they will simply adjust the rules. Breaking the Comex is putting e...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.This month's key ferro-alloy forecast highlights:?EUR?  Impressive advances in ore and alloy prices persisted in March, with most markets posting significant price gains. Strengthening demand from steelmakers along with supply shortages and depleted inventories in numerous markets, as well as freight and transportation...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

With gold's reputation as a store of value and recent gold-focused merger and acquisition activity, there is renewed investor interest in companies active in this exploration.Read full newsRead More

The COVID-19 pandemic brought devastating economic turmoil last year. Indeed, heightened market volatility materialized in a way we haven’t seen in some time.However, one year later, much of the volatility has died down. Indeed, whatever volatility is left appears to be on the upside.Speculative assets like Bitcoin are outperforming equities by a wide margin. Safe-haven stocks are underperfo...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday April 9 that are worth another look.Export prices for Brazil-origin slab have increased amid high offers to the United States, where demand for the semi-finished steel is strong and flat steel prices are near record...Read More

Global demand and supply for the commodities these two mining stocks produce improved considerably recently. The outlook for 2021 is positive.Iron ore prices are up, driven by high Chinese demand and lower outputs in Brazil.Mining stocks had a nice run over the last weeks of 2020. Since the beginning of November, the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index rose by nearly 30 per cent by year-end, thanks t...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday April 9 that are worth another look.Export prices for Brazil-origin slab have increased amid high offers to the United States, where demand for the semi-finished steel is strong and flat steel prices are near record...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday April 9 that are worth another look.Export prices for Brazil-origin slab have increased amid high offers to the United States, where demand for the semi-finished steel is strong and flat steel prices are near record...Read More

John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. Mr. Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney's James Turk, of The Money Bubble and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It. He spent the 1980's on Wall Street as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990's he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a freq...Read More

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic governments across the world implemented an unprecedented and untested strategy to slow the spread Continue...Read More

The lesson of China's Cultural Revolution in my view is that once the lid blows off, everything that was linear (predictable) goes non-linear (unpredictable).Continue...Read More

Long Covid is a condition wherein people continue to experience symptoms for longer than usual after initially contracting the virus.Continue...Read More

Illegal aliens who will be eligible for the one-time payment could receive up to $15,600, the equivalent of about $300 a week for oneContinue...Read More