The European spot ferro-silicon price resumed its downturn last week, falling to a level last seen in March 2016 with consumers in the steel sector dragging down the cost of feedstock against a slump in end-user consumption. Confirmed deals in Europe included a 400-tonne sale reportedly done at ?,?870 ($978) per tonne delivered, with another 75 tonnes sold at ?,?910-920 per tonne. Another deal for...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday June 30 that are worth another look.The definitive decision in the European steel safeguard case review failed to adjust the level of quotas to collapsed demand following Covid-19 crisis and is a "deep disappointment," European steel association Eurofer and European trade union IndustriAll said in a joint statement on June 30.Chine...Read More

Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. Investors ignore cycles... at their peril. When I calmly suggested that a key virus cycle year of 2020 would see a "carpet bombing" of markets, most investors were not listening to the cyclical message of the markets.2. Sadly, they were wasting time watching the government try to rebuild the American empire with Fed photocopiers, FATCA...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA Gold has broken out from a two-month-long consolidation (from $1680 to $1770), but the other precious metals markets have not confirmed Gold's strength.The gold stocks (GDX, GDXJ) remain below their May highs while Silver remains below significant, multi-year resistance around $18.75. Silver closed Monday at $18.06.Furthermore, Gold, when priced against foreign currenc...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold at a battle area and here are the key levels to watch:Read More

New gold investors or for a new long position in gold, one should wait till tomorrow. It is better to buy or go long if gold trades over $1800. I am repeating my trading ideology "It is better to wait and trade" THAN "trade and wait". Buy just before a technical breakout with a trailing stop loss or sell just before a technical breakdown with trailing stop losses. Never worry if you made an inve...Read More

IMF predicts deeper global recession and slower recovery, just as Iexpected. Good news for gold. The June edition of the IMF’s WorldEconomic Outlook Report Update is out! The main message is that theIMF predicts now even a deeper recession than two months ago.As a reminder, in April edition of the WorldEconomic Outlook Report, theIMF projected that the global economy would contract sharply b...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.US ERW under pressure through 2021 Electric-resistance welded oil country tubular goods prices are not expected to rebound in the United States this year while demand continues to fall. Only modest price gains are expected in the first half of next year, until inventories are brought in line with demand. We expect an an...Read More

Silver is still near all-time lows in manyways. One of the most significant measures wherein silver is at an all-timelow, is its price relative to the amount of US dollars (US monetary base) inexistence.Below, is a long-term chart of the silverprice relative to the US monetary base: As you can see it is at all-time lows(0.004), but actually even lower, since this chart was done before the massivea...Read More

The European Commission (EC) has toughened the existing safeguard measures on imports of steel products in the second review of the matter, it said on Tuesday June 30.The reviewed measures will come into force from July 1, 2020, and will remain in place for one year.The EC introduced two general adjustments to the quota system, intended to guarantee an orderly return to the market of all suppliers...Read More

Demand for physical delivery through the COMEX futures market continues, and this has significant implications for the future of the current fractional reserve and digital derivative pricing scheme.It's now mid-summer and the July COMEX contracts have moved into their delivery phase. The numbers are as amazing as they are historic, thus this updated summary is necessary today.Back in late March,...Read More

Dave KranzlerThe precious metals sector - gold, silver and mining stocks - is in the early stages of a rabid bull market. The mainstream media has been dead silent on the performance of the precious metals, which is not a surprise to those of us who have been involved in the sector since 2001, when gold bottomed at $250, silver was around $4 and the HUI index was at 45.Since September 2018, go...Read More

Bill Murphy, co-founder of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA.org,) returns to Liberty and Finance / Reluctant Preppers to answer viewers questions on the metals markets and what we must do to get positioned ahead of the next major move for Gold & Silver. Get your Free Two Week Trial Subscription to Bill Murphy's Daily Gold and PM Markets commentary at https://www.lemetropolecafe.com.Read More

Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. Investors ignore cycles... at their peril. When I calmly suggested that a key virus cycle year of 2020 would see a "carpet bombing" of markets, most investors were not listening to the cyclical message of the markets.2. Sadly, they were wasting time watching the government try to rebuild the American empire with Fed photocopiers, FATCA...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA Gold has broken out from a two-month-long consolidation (from $1680 to $1770), but the other precious metals markets have not confirmed Gold's strength.The gold stocks (GDX, GDXJ) remain below their May highs while Silver remains below significant, multi-year resistance around $18.75. Silver closed Monday at $18.06.Furthermore, Gold, when priced against foreign currenc...Read More

By Clint SiegnerThe Federal Reserve has printed trillions of dollars without generating runaway price inflation through the use of a neat trick.The privately owned bank cartel shovels the bulk of the money to Wall Street banks and not to the public at large. Instead of millions of Americans rushing out to bid up prices on consumer goods, a relative handful of bankers is using the free money to b...Read More

By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.net"You cannot fight the Fed."The general market reliance on the Fed is not only what is driving many investor's decisions of late, but it will likely reach its peak in the coming years. But, one is going to have be very careful before they buy into this fallacy too deeply.I am told over and over again that one cannot fight the Fed. Unfortunately, history does...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:In an essay posted today at FX Empire, "Gold Market Manipulation and the Federal Reserve," financial planner Kelsey Williams both admits and dismisses complaints of manipulation of the gold market.Williams doesn't identify the people he purports to be rebutting, but his characterization of them doesn't fit GATA, even though he seems to think it does."Some gold bulls,...Read More

Dave KranzlerI'd like to thank Jay Powell and his marvelous printing press. The equity side of my investment fund, which I manage, is 100% mining stocks - mostly juniors - and as of today it's up 100% QTD. Thank you Jay. Almost every stock we hold is from the ideas I present in my Mining Stock Journal.But I'm here to discuss the "idiot stocks." I've decided to label stocks like SHOP, W, TS...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold at a battle area and here are the key levels to watch:Read More