Chinese copper smelters are still searching for spot raw materials to feed their furnaces while the supply of scrap and domestic blister copper remains crimped. The spot refining charge (RC) for 98-99% blister copper on a cif China basis dropped further to $115-125 per tonne at the end of May, according to Fastmarkets' assessment - the lowest since the monthly price was launched in February 2018.&...Read More

Prices for bulk ferrous scrap cargoes imported into Vietnam have continued to rise over the week ended Friday May 29 but some market sources were unsure whether the upward momentum would persist.Vietnamese scrap prices have performed strongly over the past seven days amid a combination of high demand from the South-east Asian country and Japanese sellers pushing prices upward.The high prices paid...Read More

Ferrous scrap buyers in South Korea have been forced to pay higher prices for Japanese material over the week ended Friday May 29 due to sell-side pressure, market sources have told Fastmarkets.Japanese scrap prices have moved up strongly through the week, with supplies of H2 heavy scrap coming under strain from exporters filling a backlog of existing orders from lower collection volumes.Strong de...Read More

Prices for heavy melting scrap (HMS) imports in Taiwan rose over the week to Friday May 29 due to an ongoing supply deficit, sources said. Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for containerized cargoes of steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20), US material import, cfr main port Taiwan was $233-234 per tonne on Friday, up by $5 per tonne from a day earlier and $2-3 per tonne higher than $230-232 per tonne cfr...Read More

Overcapacity in the aluminium industry is highly unlikely to be erased in the foreseeable future, according to the former head of Europe's largest aluminium producer, Norsk Hydro.Svein Richard Brandtz??g, who was Norsk Hydro chief executive for a decade from 2009, said the market will eventually revert to a more balanced supply-demand picture but that this will take time to emerge. "History shows...Read More

NEW TOOLS IN ITS LATEST MICROMINE UPGRADESPONSOREDmicromineCardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesMacron unveiled an US$8 billion support package for France's car industry on Tuesday, including subsidies of up to €12,00...Read More

The U.S. EPA in May approved a fuel pathway under the Renewable Fuel Standard for a biomass gasification plant under development in McFarland, California, that will produce renewable natural gas (RNG) for sale into the transportation fuel market.Read full newsRead More

The European Commission presented on May 27 a revamped long-term EU budget and a ?,?1.85 trillion recovery plan, noting that it provides the instruments to build a modern, clean and healthy economy, which secures the livelihoods of the next generation.The Commission is proposing to create a new reRead full newsRead More

With M&A activity in the gold space seemingly set to continue, will major miners make smart decisions on what they buy? When asked if he thinks they've learn...Read full newsRead More

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Like much of the world, Argentina remains locked down, its citizens more or less homebound due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Amid the torpor, Yamana Gold, a Canada-based mining company, has forged a new partnership around a gold mining project in the Patagonian province of Chubut. The move has led activists to accuse Yamana of [...]Read full newsRead More

The current economic events are a plus for gold. But gold stocks have gotten ahead of themselves right now.More From InvestorPlace Top Stock Picker Reveals His Next 1,000% Winner America's Richest ZIP Code Holds Shocking Secret #1 Under-the-Radar 5G Stock to Buy Now The 1 Stock All Retirees Must OwnRead full newsRead More

The year 2020 will be one to remember. The COVID-19 pandemic led to the fastest crash in market history. In early March, the TSX Index lost approximately 35% of its value in only a few short weeks, effectively putting an end to the record bull run which began in 2009.The drop was so drastic that several blue chip companies were trading at levels not seen since the 2008 Financial Crisis. A decade&r...Read More

McClellan Financial Publications, IncPosted May 31, 2020May 28, 2020The officially stated rate of U.S. unemployment in April 2020 was 14.7%, the highest since the Great Depression, when the data were not as rigorously tabulated compared to these days. Regardless of whether the 14.7% number is exactly correct (it isn’t), it is still a high number. And May’s number may be higher still wh...Read More

Bob StokesElliottWave InternationalPosted May 31, 2020Day trading - it's back.As you'll probably recall, day trading became so popular during the late 1990s that some market participants were selling their homes to raise the funds to participate.It didn't end well. After peaking in March 2000, the NASDAQ went on to lose 78% of its value.Yet, even after the dot.com bust, day trading never went away...Read More

TORONTO - Today, Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, issued the following statement on electricity rate relief measures during the COVID-19 outbreak."Our government is committed to supporting families and business-owners as we plan for the safe and gradual reopening of the province. Since March 24, 2020, we have invested just over $175 million to deliver emergen...Read More

Today's Energy and Capital is a special one. Its author is Bill Lowe. You probably have never heard of him because he retired from public life years ago to focus on the things he really enjoys: 1) outdoor activities, like hunting and hiking in his home state of Montana; and 2) managing his personal portfolio. But Bill is one of the co-founders of Angel Publishing. As a business owner and professi...Read More

Peter and George take a deep dive into stagflation, inflation, deflation and what that means for the US dollar, commodities and gold. How will the lockdowns and the reopening affect the economy long term? Will YOUR LIFE ever be the same? Peter Boockvar is the Chief Investment Officer of Bleakley Financial Group and Editor of The Boock Report newsletter https://boockreport.com/.George Edward Gammon...Read More

TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:-"V-bounce" essentially impossible.-Impossible to invest with distorted markets.-Why markets are nearing all-time-highs.-"I cannot say enough bad things about the Fed."-Overvaluation is appreciation pulled forward.-Velocity of money dropped in Weimar Germany too until inflation skyrocketed.-Gold and silver commentary.David B. Collum is an economic commentator, chemist, Bet...Read More