Are we finally getting a glimpse of the aftermath of COVID-19?Look, I know it's far too early to suggest that we've gotten past this pandemic.Last Friday, the U.S. reported its highest one-day number of new COVID-19 cases. That day, 75,821 people joined 4 million others in testing positive for the virus.At last count, more than 144,000 COVID-19 deaths have been recorded across the United States.Wo...Read More

Today, on INK Ultra Money we hear from Stanley Druckenmiller understudy Beeneet Kothari who specializes in global technology investments. He believes investors are investing like it is 2023 and dispassionately suggests we are in a multi-decade technology era. When asked to name a stock he likes, he serves up a contrarian idea which we suspect is not a Kyle Bass holding. Watch the premium intervie...Read More

Italian steel re-rollers have been targeting a price increase for heavy plate due to the rising cost of steel slab, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 22.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel domestic plate, 8-40mm, exw Southern Europe, was ?,?430-440 ($493-505) per tonne on July 22, up by ?,?10 per tonne week on week from ?,?420-430 per tonne.The assessment was based on achievabl...Read More

Sentiment in the European hot-rolled coil market has been positive despite the seasonal slowdown in activity in the second half of the summer, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 22.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was calculated at ?,?407.68 ($467.82) per tonne on Wednesday, up by just ?,?0.01 per tonne from ?,?407.67 per tonne on July 21.Wedne...Read More

Iranian steelmakers produced 7.14 million tonnes of semi-finished products in the first three months of the current Iranian year - March 20 to June 20 - up by 3% annually, the latest Iranian Steel Producers Association (ISPA) report said on July 19.Higher steel slab output reached 3.02 million tonnes in the first quarter, up by 12% year on year, which drove a lot of the reported growth, while stee...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday July 22 that are worth another look.Russia's largest steelmaker, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), has suspended rolling operations at its subsidiary in the Ural region due to a flood, the company said earlier this week.Rio Tinto has formally complained...Read More

Decreasing ferrous scrap prices and overall weak demand have eroded wire rod spot prices in the United States, Fastmarkets has learned.Fastmarkets' monthly assessment for steel wire rod (low carbon) industrial quality, fob mill US fell to $29-29.50per hundredweight ($580-590 per short ton) on Tuesday July 21, down by 4.1% from $30-31 per cwt last month, when sources indicated the domestic wir...Read More

Hollow steel sections prices in Northern and Southern Europe were unchanged on Wednesday July 22 with much of the market already away for the summer, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel sections (medium), domestic, delivered Northern Europe was ?,?540-560 ($620-642) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged week on week. The weekly steel sections (medium), domestic,...Read More

Turkish steel producers have continued their deep-sea scrap purchases for August shipments but at slightly higher prices, sources said on Wednesday July 22.A steel mill in the Iskenderun region booked a Baltic Sea cargo, comprising 13,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (95:5) at $273 per tonne cfr. The cargo was scheduled to be shipped before August 19.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked US cargo, compri...Read More

Strengths? The best performing precious metal for the week was silver, up 3.24 percent and marking six weeks of consecutive gains. Silver was strong again this week as the metal neared $20 an ounce, a level last seen in September 2016. The metal is up 66 percent from its March lows due to stronger demand for use in solar. Silver is also riding the wave of higher gold prices. ?...Read More

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By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.netIt has been quite some time since I have published an article on gold. Unfortunately, we have become so busy at Elliottwavetrader that I simply have not had the time to publish many public articles.So, as we are approaching an inflection point, I thought it would be an appropriate time to publish a public article.Now, I have to be honest. I am quite disappoi...Read More

1. Gold looks superb, silver looks better, and the miners look best of all. 2. These are the main facts for investors to keep in mind at this point in "gold bull era" time.3. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this "breakout over $1800" gold chart.4. Next, please click here now. Double-click to enlarge yet another breakout chart (silver). S...Read More

Craig Hemke, TF MetalsIt may or may not happen at next week's FOMC, but that hardly matters. What's important is that a policy shift is coming and the impact upon the precious metals will be significant.Many times already in 2020, we've utilized this space to explain why negative real interest rates are the most extraordinarily important and fundamental rationale for owning physical gold and sil...Read More

Legendary precious metals trader Andrew Maguire joins us to answer your questions regarding COMEX pricing, JP Morgan and the current shortage of physical silver at the wholesale level.Sprott Money News ? Sprott Money News Ask The Expert - July 2020- Andrew MaguireAndrew Maguire is an Independent London Metals Trader and Analyst, internationally renowned for his unique ability to read the precious...Read More

"Trump promised us a deal. Instead, we got a cold war."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 Me...Read More

"When inflation becomes the problem, what can the Fed do? Promise to buy stocks and print more money? What can the Fed do? Print money to buy down interest rates when the economy is in full revolt? When money managers are shorting bonds and driving yields to the moon. No, the only thing they can do is stop printing money and promise to fight inflation. That's when you are going to get 6,000 on the...Read More

CIS export steel billet prices continued to strengthen early this week after a fresh sale and on limited availability of August-rolling volumes, Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday July 22.Rare offers from CIS mills were heard within the range of $380-385 per tonne fob Black/Azov Sea ports. This was up from $375-385 per tonne fob late last week.Some Russian producers, however, quoted significantly high...Read More

TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:-Michael's introduction-Deep analysis of the gold bull market stair stepping higher.-Acceleration of the gold and silver move.-Bull market in gold, "likely its last."-Tech stocks heavily distorting indexes.-Banking stocks never recovered.?>>?J. Michael Oliver entered the financial services industry in 1975 on the Futures side, joining E.F. Hutton's International Commodity...Read More

Video Timestamps:19:30 Stock Market Concerns27:00 David Rosenberg's Investment Strategy32:40 Bank Of Canada Policy Meeting 202040:20 Investment strategy for the new normal48:50 Debt Ratios49:10 Gold Investment Idea52:10 StagflationDavid Rosenberg is the chief economist & strategist of Rosenberg Research & Associates, an economic consulting firm he established in January 2020. He received both a Ba...Read More