The European and US battery grade lithium carbonate price fell by 2.9% week on week on Thursday July 16 amid continued demand weakness, while Chinese prices consolidated the previous week's losses.The European and US lithium carbonate price fell on the top end of the range after buyers resisted higher offers. China's battery-grade lithium prices stabilized after a fall last week. China's industria...Read More
In this week's Insights newsletter, we look at the roaring Venture market and the role that American helicopter money is likely to play in markets going forward. Our clip of the week features a junior miner that has exploded on the upside since our July 3rd report and our insider of the week is the CEO of a battery metals stock that is been on a charge since we first wrote about it. Click here to...Read More
Key data from the pricing session in Shanghai on Friday July 17. Key drivers The cobalt metal price in China retreated slightly due to softening local futures prices amid weakened sentiment following a plunge on the stock market in China on Thursday. Spot...Read More
South American import prices for flat-rolled steel were higher during the week ended Friday July 17, with more expensive offers from both China and Japan, market participants have told Fastmarkets.But clients were still bidding at their previous, lower levels in an attempt to prevent the increases being imposed on September-shipment cargoes, they added.Fastmarkets assessed the price of steel hot-r...Read More
Indian mills increased their hot-rolled coil export prices by as much as $30 per per tonne in the week to Friday July 17, because buyers in Southeast Asia are desperate for supplies to meet rising demand, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets price assessment for steel hot-rolled coil (commodity) export, fob main port India, was 450-455 per tonne on 17July, up by 20-30 per tonne from last week's $4...Read More
Turkish prices in the domestic market for hot-dipped galvanized coil (HDG) and color-coated coil increased in the week to Friday July 17, although demand was only moderate, sources have told Fastmarkets.The reason for the higher prices for coated flat steel was the rise in hot-rolled coil prices, because HRC is the base material for coated coil.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel HRC, d...Read More
Domestic steel rebar prices in Poland widened downwards in the week to Friday July 17, with buyers pushing for lower numbers despite all major producers having no July tonnages left, sources told Fastmarkets.Demand for rebar in Poland was slightly slower this week and buyers were bidding lower citing problems passing their costs downstream. Most major producers, including ArcelorMittal Warszawa, C...Read More
Imports of long products to the European Union dropped during the first four months of 2020 year on year due to the toxic combination of the effect of Covid-19 on consumption and rising protectionism. According to European steel association Eurofer, imports of rebar from outside of EU in January-April 2020 totaled 370,514 tonnes, down by 37% from 589,428 during the corresponding period of 2019. At...Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort330,20567,77759,596125,909427,927515,710555,300Change from Prior Reporting Period -6,825-1,8955,5667,4856,9116,22610,582Traders22765875666318190 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 64,46524,875580,175 1,173-3,1837,399 non reportable positionsChange from the previous reportin...Read More
Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson. The opinions are his and are not investment advice.Breaking News:? Gold reached $1,800, close to its all-time high of $1,923.? Silver reached $19, a long way from its high of $50.? The NASDAQ hit another new high.? Tesla closed on July 10 at $1,544, a new high. Tesla looked outrageously high at $1,200...Read More
This is an interesting interview between Professor Brian Lucey and Dr. Fergal O'Connor, lecturer in finance and economics at University College Cork (UCC) on gold's performance as a safe haven asset in the last 200 hundred years and in recent history including the 2008-2012 global financial crisis. The pandemic is one moment in history and Brian and Fergal discuss what gold has done in oth...Read More
Peter Schiff appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience this week. The wide-ranging, three-hour interview covered a number of topics, including a critique of socialism, the 2020 presidential election, the recent social unrest and how to fix troubled communities, how the minimum wage hurts workers, and the economic impacts of the coronavirus.Peter Schiff on Joe Rogan's podcast on July 15, 2020As far...Read More
Spot gold getting higher than comex gold futures. Silver is still in bullish zone. Covid is spreading in nations which have opened after lockdown. Gold and silver are soft just due to vaccine hopes and nothing else. Rest of the factors are all bullish. Gold investment demand from ETF and others will not fall significantly unless there are other safe options. Federal Reserve meeting on 29th July...Read More
Crude steel output in Italy decreased by 7.88% year on year in June due to the decrease in steel demand amid the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown measures, Italian steel association Federacciai said on Friday July 17.The county's crude steel production totaled 1.92 million tonnes in June 2020, down from 2.08 million tonnes in the same months of 2019.The June decrease, however, was less then the re...Read More
The prices paid for steel scrap by mills in Turkey and Asia have moved up over the week ending Friday July 17, against a backdrop of stronger Chinese prices for iron ore and steel.Turkish steel producers continue to book deep-sea scrap at progressively higher prices through the weekUS East Coast market activity increased after new sales to TurkeyVietnamese scrap demand was supported by a surge in...Read More
Harry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, new venture investor, noted speaker, bestselling author, and the founder and senior editor at Dent Research, where he dedicates himself to identifying and studying demographic, technological, and geopolitical trends. He has a free daily newsletter at www.harrydent.com called "Survive and Prosper." Mr. Dent accurately predicted Japan's collapse in 1989, the d...Read More
TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:-The breakdown of the 2020 employment lies.-Q2 GDP will collapse by 50%.-All economic growth since Great Recession erased.-This is a pandemic economic collapse.-Economic numbers hitting EVERYONE.Walter J. "John" Williams has been a private consulting economist and a specialist in government economic reporting for more than 30 years. His economic consultancy is called Shado...Read More
With the majority of silver mining operations shutting down and unprecedented physical silver "Investment Demand"....the 150 years silver market suppression is about to UNWIND! Hang on tight!Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com. Bix has d...Read More
"We're in a depression."Sprott Money News ? Sprott Money News Weekly Wrap-up - 7.17.20Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has per...Read More