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

Of all the metrics we have seen in the past year trying to capture the sheer mania and frenzy of the retail rotation into stocks - a process also known as "distribution" because Continue...Read More

With #gold?EUR< and #silver?EUR< demand globally "off the charts," what's truly driving the price? Andy Schectman believes prices would be much higher if it weren't for price suppression. 0:00?EUR< Intro0:48?EUR< Rally in metals5:35?EUR< Central bank gold demand15:58?EUR< Shortages in gold?19:26?EUR< 90% of sales are silverAndy Schectman is the President and CEO of Miles Franklin Ltd. Precious Met...Read More

?>>?Gold coin sales at the Perth Mint have now made new consecutive highs for the months of February and March but there appears to be a lot of examples of widespread problems and potentially fraud with unallocated accounts at the Perth Mint. John Adams from Adams Economics in Australia (Twitter handle: https://mobile.twitter.com/adamsecono...?EUR<) is uncovering LOTS of examples in his informatio...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

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