"Gordon Moore called it better than anyone else, and he's going to make you very, very rich."Normally, the gruff voice behind such a statement would float over to me from the desk next to me.But, things aren't too normal these days, and Christian DeHaemer's excited tone was carried over from his home office via webcam.And whenever my pre-COVID cubicle cellmate here at the office starts off like th...Read More

Demand for flat steel products in Turkey was moderate in April despite the Covid-19 pandemic due to low stocks in the country, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday May 6.Turkish flat steel producers are fully booked until late June.Several carmakers stopped production in the country in March and April, but most have now resumed, or are planning to resume output in April and May.Steel output was a...Read More

It is a G-economy day with the government bonds down, credit spreads tightening, oil up and the gold-silver ratio falling. That should give today's morning report stock featured on INK Ultra Money a relative boost against its gold-focused peers. Canadian Insider Club Ultra members have full access. If you are not an Ultra member, join us or upgrade today.1. The silver lining for Yamana Gold - INK...Read More

US steel imports surged in April on the re-opening of quarterly quota limits on slab from Brazil - and despite double-digit declines for some finished steel goods.The US imported 2.68 million tons of steel last month, up by 68.9% from March but down by 11.3% from April 2019, according to license data from the US Department of Commerce's Enforcement and Compliance division last updated on Tuesday M...Read More

New orders in May are set to fall by 25% from a typical month - less than the 60% decrease seen at the end of March and in April - as steel demand starts to recover from the Covid-19 crisis in Brazil, Gerdau chief executive officer Gustavo Werneck said on Wednesday May 6.Construction site work in Brazil was down by 6% from the period before regional government quarantines to prevent the Covid-19 s...Read More

Brazil-based steelmaker Gerdau expects the No2 blast furnace at its Ouro Branco mill - in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais - to resume production between the end of June and the beginning of July, chief executive officer Gustavo Werneck said on Wednesday May 6.The blast furnace was idled in early April amid tumbling demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic and falling export prices. It has capaci...Read More

Turkish steel producers avoided the deep-sea scrap market on Wednesday May 6, amid lower finished steel output in Turkey, due to the measures introduced to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus, sources told to Fastmarkets.The most recent deep-sea transaction took place at the end of the last week when a steel mill in the Iskenderun region booked a European cargo at $236 per tonne for HMS 1&2...Read More

The seaborne iron ore market uptrend resumed on Wednesday May 6 due to more active trading after Chinese market participants returned from the Labor Day holiday on May 1-5. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $84.35 per tonne, up $0.31 per tonne. 62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $86.24 per tonne, down $0.46 per tonne. 58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $72.81 p...Read More

Steel billet producers in Iran have been active in the Southeast Asian market in the week to Wednesday May 6, Fastmarkets has learnt.Several cargoes of Iranian billet scheduled for production and shipment in May were reported sold within the range of $340-342 per tonne to Thailand and Indonesia, sources said.A cargo scheduled for the Indonesian market was reported sold at $365-367 per tonne cfr, w...Read More

By David SmithMost resource sector writers (including me) have for a long time been "wrong" about gold and silver.When they ran from $250 and $5 an ounce, respectively, to $1,920 and $49 in 2011, those who listened, acted, and sold a bit did quite well. We argued the "longer time bullish case" as these metals dropped into their final cyclical bear market graves in late 2015.But that was then......Read More

China's domestic rebar prices moved up on Wednesday May 6 after a five-day break for Labor Day amid a drop in spot market inventory levels and rising futures. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,430-3,460 yuan ($486-490) per tonne, up by 20 yuan per tonne China's 20 biggest rebar markets had 8.31 million tonnes of the product at the end of April, down by 610,000 tonnes (6.8%) from April 20,...Read More

By Ricky WenTuesday's session played out as a 'gap up and go' structure that faded in the final few minutes of regular trading hours (RTH). If you recall, RTH opened at 2863.25 after Monday's closing print of 2827.5 on the Emini S&P 500 (ES), so it was a +1.2% gap up. Then price action continued in the trending direction for the majority of the day, forming higher lows and higher highs as the...Read More

By: Gary SavageThe $SPX daily cycle low hit? Hard to tell but the 200-DMA resistance zone is..https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold does not want to go much lower, it appears but over the short-term a bearish trend putting pressure on the downtrend..Read More

Natural or man-made/manipulated? The debate rages on, though evidence is starting to mount on the side of at least *some* manipulation. In Tuesday's video, Chris talked about polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA which looks suspiciously like an 'insert' in covid-19's genetic coding. In today's video, he focuses on the RaTG13 sequence, which raises even more questions. It suggests that either the seq...Read More

Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More

A blatant example of how the mainstream media is doing its best to make the coronavirus crisis look as bad as possible.Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne joins me today to share his thoughts on the charts of gold, GDX, silver and SIL. With precious metals pulling back today, gold and gold stocks are still in very bullish patterns however silver is really lagging. Silver stocks are doing better but there is a reason for that...Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. H...Read More

Through decades of investing experience around the world and in every asset class Jim Rogers has built a reputation as being one of the best investors of our time. Jim Rogers has beat the markets by looking for asymmetric bets, in areas and assets classes that are beaten down and extremely cheap. He tries to find a catalyst for change and looks to fade hysteria in markets. By executing this strate...Read More

The people running states like New Jersey and cities like Chicago know they're broke. Ridiculously generous public employee pensions - concocted by elected officials and union leaders who had to have understood that they were writing checks their taxpayers couldn't cover - are bleeding them dry, with no political solution in sight.They also know that they have only two possible outs: bankruptcy, o...Read More