"Today, at the direction of President Trump, I declassified additional documents relevant to ongoing Congressional oversight and investigative activities." 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

The amount of information coming out about this entire Soft Coup against Trump and how Hillary Clinton manufactured everything to distract people from the destroyed emails which were all obviously Continue...Read More

"I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!Continue...Read More

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Turkish steel mills continued to stay away from deep-sea scrap purchasing due to the weak domestic steel market, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday October 7.The country's steelmakers had booked three deep-sea cargoes at the end of last week, putting the HMS 1&2 (80:20) price at $284 per tonne cfr for European material and at $289 per tonne cfr for Baltic Sea-origin scrap.The previous Balt...Read More

Steel slab producers in Iran have managed to achieve higher sales prices in recent transactions amid improving demand in Asia and the resulting stronger prices.According to reports from market participants, several cargoes of slab from Mobarakeh Steel and its subsidiary Hormozgan Steel were sold to traders late in the week ended October 2 at $446 per tonne fob Southern Iranian ports.Another local...Read More

Demand for steel billet in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region early in the week that began on Monday October 5 supported billet sellers in the CIS region, which have been faced with a lack of trading activity in most outlets recently.Customers in the Middle East-North Africa (Mena) region and Asia have adopted a wait-and-see position over the past seven days amid uncertainty about the price...Read More

The chromium metal market is facing oversupply after orders from the aerospace sector stalled, resulting in increased competition for business among suppliers, sources told Fastmarkets. Chromium metal in its higher purity is used to create a variety of superalloy components including turbine blades for the aerospace industry, due to its high resistance to corrosion. "Demand [from aerospace] is dow...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday October 7. Key drivers  A persistent and seemingly increasing tightness in titanium scrap is propelling scrap and ferro-titanium prices for the fourth and fifth weeks in a row respectively.  Ferro-titanium producers say they are worried about securing enough scrap in coming weeks, with volumes falling from traditional sect...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday October 7 that are worth another look.Brazilian vehicle production fell by 11% in September 2020 compared with the corresponding month a year before, with producers increasing supply from April lows at a slow pace in order to prevent inventories from rising...Read More

Brazilian vehicle production fell by 11% in September 2020 compared with the corresponding month a year before, with producers increasing supply from April lows at a slow pace in order to prevent inventories from rising too much, carmakers' association Anfavea said on Wednesday October 7.The country made 220,162 vehicles last month, down from 247,455 units reported in September 2019. But output wa...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday October 5 that are worth another look.Tata Steel Europe has strongly denied reports that it will sell its UK-based asset to Chinese steel giant Jingye.After United States sanctions cut off supplies of microchips...Read More

Most Turkish flat steel prices decreased toward the end of September 2020 and market sources expected further price reductions to come amid price falls for raw materials, Fastmarkets heard on Monday October 5.Turkish flat steel producers were fully booked through September, with trading sources reporting that the market was moderate for most of the month because of strong demand in Asia at the beg...Read More

Tata Steel Europe has strongly denied reports that it will sell its UK-based asset to Chinese steel giant Jingye. This weekend numerous reports appeared in the British press indicating that Chinese steel company Hebei Jingye Group had expressed interest in acquiring Tata Steel's flat steelmaking asset, Port Talbot. Tata Steel called this information "speculative" in a comment to Fastmarkets on Mon...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday October 7 that are worth another look.Brazilian vehicle production fell by 11% in September 2020 compared with the corresponding month a year before, with producers increasing supply from April lows at a slow pace in order to prevent inventories from rising...Read More

Global tin premiums in the week to Tuesday October 6 were unchanged, supported by a persistent contango across the London Metal Exchange benchmark cash/three-month spread for tin, while a steady uptick in Chinese buying interest saw European sellers take a closer look at arbitrage opportunities against a static domestic market.China's buying activity attracts European sellersCash/3-month spread ho...Read More

The three-month price of copper on the London Metal Exchange was higher at the close of trading on Wednesday October 7, up by just over 2% during the afternoon trading session, while doubts over an economic recovery package in the United States have put little pressure on a broadly positive LME base metals complex.Copper's outright price on the LME closed at $6,679 per tonne on Wednesday afternoon...Read More

Steel slab producers in Iran have managed to achieve higher sales prices in recent transactions amid improving demand in Asia and the resulting stronger prices.According to reports from market participants, several cargoes of slab from Mobarakeh Steel and its subsidiary Hormozgan Steel were sold to traders late in the week ended October 2 at $446 per tonne fob Southern Iranian ports.Another local...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday October 7 that are worth another look.Brazilian vehicle production fell by 11% in September 2020 compared with the corresponding month a year before, with producers increasing supply from April lows at a slow pace in order to prevent inventories from rising...Read More