The rally off the 2020 market crash has taken the TSX Index to new highs. Investors who missed the rebound are searching for cheap stocks that might still have decent upside potential.Why Crescent Point Energy stock could soarInvestors who bought Crescent Point Energy (TSX:CPG)(NYSE:CPG) stock for $1 last year have chalked up some huge gains. At the time of writing, the shares trade for $5. The ea...Read More
Gold stocks have been on the move lately, inching higher over the past two to three weeks. A bottom may be in, which means gold stocks can move higher.A formidable force that could drive gold prices higher is the money printing from central banks around the world. This act is devaluing fiat currencies and should push gold prices higher. This will, in turn, push gold stocks higher.Franco-NevadaWhen...Read More
For more than a year now, I've been arguing that the rate of inflation isn't what the government or the Fed says it is.It's actually much higher.And I'm not the only one who thinks so. As we get further and further into the "recovery" more and more data is coming to light to prove my point. However, it's not enough just to accept that we're being lied to. It's just as important to talk about wh...Read More
Apr 16, 2021 Guest(s): Jim Rogers Money will become more and more digitized, according to Jim Rogers, investor, best-selling author, and co-founder of the Quantum Fund, but the question is whether or not non-government issued digital currencies will prevail."If cryptocurrencies become successful, most governments will outlaw it, because they don't want to lose their monopoly, every government i...Read More
Almost all base metal futures prices rose by over 3% in the week ending Friday April 16, despite falling lower from their readings on Thursday, boosted in part by a US dollar index that has been at its lowest in a month. Copper's three-month price closed on Friday at $9,211 per tonne, up 3.9% since Monday, when its 5pm price was of $8,861 per tonne. The metal reached $9,353.50 per tonne during tra...Read More
Fastmarkets' benchmark copper concentrate index ended three weeks of declines on Friday April 16 with a 7.3% uptick week on week. Chinese smelters are mostly well-covered for production needs for the second quarter, with only a few June and July parcels sold at the mid-$20s per tonne...Read More
Lead stocks in Shanghai Futures Exchange-registered warehouses climbed by 24.1% in the week to Friday April 16, due to seasonal weakness, while production cuts in Yunnan province caused tin inventories to fall 5.9%.According to the exchange's latest stocks report, lead stocks stood at 65,444 tonnes on Friday, up 12,692 tonnes from 52,752 tonnes the a week earlier, while tin stocks declin...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions on Friday April 16 in China, Europe and the United States.China The China ferro-silicon price continued to narrow downward in alignment with the lowering of steel mills' tender prices for 72% grade alloys and the availability of inventory. Smelters in Ningxia and Qinghai were ramping up production, which largely offset the supply shortage arising from...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesApr 16, 2021I have covered the Novo saga for almost a decade now andhave even written a book covering the story right up to the first gold pour eight weeks ago.I was part of the story going all the way back to 1977 when I took a Rockwell 685 from Florida to Australia for Lang Hancock, the 2nd richest man in the country. I had with me the son-in-law of Hancock who managed to bo...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions on Friday April 16 in China, Europe and the United States.China Seaborne low-grade manganese ore prices declined after major suppliers cut their offers and buyers showed a healthy appetite for offers that matched portside prices. Seaborne high-grade manganese ore prices also fell, with existing offers rejected by buyers, who cited low portside prices. Po...Read More
Data released on Friday showed Chinese GDP grew by a record 18.3% year-on-year in Q1.Read More
The A$62 million contract will see it support Newmont's new 3.5 million ounce Ahafo North development in Ghana, about 30km from the existing Ahafo South operations. Lycopodium has been working with Newmont in Ghana since 2003 helping develop both Ahafo South in 2006 and, in 2013, the Akyem gold mine some 150km away. It has been involved in the engineering designs to facilitate the procur...Read More
Fastmarkets' benchmark copper concentrate index ended three weeks of declines on Friday April 16 with a 7.3% uptick week on week. Chinese smelters are mostly well-covered for production needs for the second quarter, with only a few June and July parcels sold at the mid-$20s per tonne...Read More
An overview of the aerospace materials markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Michael Greenfield in...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesApr 16, 2021The gold miners' stocks remain undervalued, strong buys fundamentally. Their stock prices are too low relative to both underlying corporate profitability and prevailing gold prices. That gives gold stocks big potential to power much higher during gold's next bull-market upleg, which is already underway. Miners' stocks way outperform the metal they mine, as their ma...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Charlotte Radford, Cristina Belda...Read More
Domestic ferrous scrap prices in Germany have been largely unchanged over the month to Friday April 16, sources have told Fastmarkets.New scrap was an exception, with prices for such grades increasing slightly due to tight supply from the automotive sector.Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for steel scrap No E3 (old thick steel scrap), domestic, delivered mill, Germany, was unchanged over the...Read More
Purchasing activity in the key global steel scrap destinations began to cool in the week to Friday April 16, with price increases levelling off on a change of sentiment, with the exceptions of Taiwan and China.Turkey did not purchase any cargoes this weekUS market quiet, looking for market directionVietnamese import prices level out but sentiment soursChinese prices stabilize as sentiment deterior...Read More
The price for UK-origin light iron scrap was steady in the week to Friday April 16 after narrowing upward in the previous week, with tight availability of material prompting major shredders to compete strongly for feedstock to keep their machines running cost-effectively, sources told Fastmarkets.British business conditions were expected to remain difficult through the current quarter at least and...Read More
Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were for the most part stronger this morning, Friday April 16, supported by robust economic data, while the base metals on the London Metal Exchange were consolidating after yesterday's strength, which followed strong US data. China's gross domestic product (GDP) climbed by 18.3% year on year in Q1US treasury yields dropped, lifting gold and equi...Read More