A summary of Belgian battery materials company Umicore's results for the first six months of 2020, as stated in its half-year report published on Friday July 31.In brief Revenues from the Energy & Surface Technologies division were down by 8% year-on-year in the first half of 2020, to ?,?557 million ($656 million), due to the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on sales of electric vehicles (EVs). Ear...Read More
A summary of operational results for the second quarter of 2020 from Australian lithium-spodumene producer Altura, published on Friday July 31.In brief The company achieved production of 46,316 wet metric tonnes (wmt) of lithium concentrate for the April-June quarter, up by around 10% from the January-March quarter, it said. Production came to 181,264 wmt of...Read More
The cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam trade log, including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies. Fastmarkets assessed...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday August 3 that are worth another look.The year 2020 has been the ultimate stress test for commodity market participants and will stay challenging amid significantly impaired consumer demand trends due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the chief executive officer of Concord Resources. Mark Hansen said the economy is operatin...Read More
A look at hot-rolled coil prices around the globe.Blip or paradigm shift? Prices for hot-rolled coil in the United States last month fell below those in China for the first time since at least 2013. The reversal of normal trends - Chinese prices are typically well below US levels - resulted from US domestic tags plummeting in July while Chinese prices recorded a third consecutive month o...Read More
Prices for carbon steel plate in the United States have continued to hold steady after neither producers nor distributors reported any impetus to offer cheaper prices or to book bigger tonnages.Buyers saw no urgency to book large inventory buys from the mills at the moment, because there is plenty of material on the ground at various service centers that can sell to each other at competitive price...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday August 3 that are worth another look.The year 2020 has been the ultimate stress test for commodity market participants and will stay challenging amid significantly impaired consumer demand trends due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the chief executive officer of Concord Resources. Mark Hansen said the economy is operatin...Read More
Ferrous scrap sellers in Brazil were expecting to raise their prices in new negotiations with steelmakers, with domestic consumption starting to recover and with increases seen in international prices for scrap and local prices for steel rebar, according to national ferrous scrap association Inesfa.After a lackluster first half of the year in terms of scrap demand, which led in turn to higher expo...Read More
Prices for domestic and imported merchant bar quality (MBQ) steel in the United States were again flat in July while demand was generally stable and modest gains in sales volumes were seen in some markets. Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for steel bar 2 x 2 x 1/4 -inch angle merchant products, fob mill US was $33.80 per hundredweight ($676 per short ton) on Friday July 31, unchanged since...Read More
"I am getting prepared for a freezing of the global economy, in which case there will be a period of time where credit cards don't work...they're going to be scrambling, trying to figure out what to do. Massive currency creation is the only thing they can do and that eventually ends in hyperinflation..." Michael Maloney is a precious metals investment expert and historian. He is the founder and ow...Read More
One might think that growing up with the last name Trump means you've been handed everything your whole life or things have been easy for you, but that couldn't be further from the truth.Eric Trump joins the Rich Dad Radio show to discuss what life is like as the son of the 45th President of the United States and how his parents raised him and his siblings to work hard and understand the value of...Read More
They are rushing through a Covid vaccine at a blistering pace, while granting immunity to big Pharma for any damage it might do to the American people. They are lowering the minimum effectiveness level to 50 percent - like tossing a coin. The propaganda machine is in high gear. Should we line up for the shot? Also in today's Liberty Report: Massive anti-lockdown protests in Europe!Dr. Ron Paul is...Read More
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Newrange Gold reported first results from the drill program at its Pamlico Gold project in Mineral County, Nevada. In a news release, Vancouver-based precious metals exploration and development company Newrange Gold Corp. (NRG:TSX.V; NRGOF:OTC) announced "the first results from the ongoing reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at the Pamlico Gold project in Nevada."The firm noted that 25 hole...Read More
So much for America's "humanitarian war"... the mask has utterly fallen off, and did so long ago for those who were paying attention.Continue...Read More
Tens of thousands of Germans marched through Berlin on Saturday, proclaiming a "Day of Freedom" and demanding an end to government-mandated face masks and "social distancing." The UK and Netherlands also saw large protests against their governments' tyrannical actions in response to the coronavirus outbreak.According to media accounts, the Berlin protesters held signs reading "We are being forced...Read More
Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to com...Read More
The mineralization at Aurania Resources' flagship project is 'resolving into specific targets.' Aurania Resources Ltd. (ARU:TSX.V; AUIAF:OTCQB) announced in a news release it confirmed high-grade copper-silver in the Tsenken B target area of its flagship Ecuadorian Lost Cities-Cutucu project."We are very encouraged to see the copper-silver in the Tsenken area resolving into specific targets that...Read More
Sympathy for America's big-city mayors and their allies is evaporating - generally for good reason. Portland and Seattle, for instance, seemed willing to give rioters a free hand before halfheartedly Continue...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts warning signs of a Fed-driven stock market downturn. There is a now widespread, universally held belief, especially among "dumb money" market participants, that the markets cannot drop because the Fed is going to keep creating money in ever greater quantities to throw at them, pumping them higher and higher. This erroneous belief appears to be based on an assu...Read More