Chinese vanadium price rises have increased the differential with the European vanadium market, sparking interest in import business in China, market sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets assessed the price of ferro-vanadium, 78% V min, fob China at $30-31.50 per kg on Thursday June 11, up by 3.4% week on week and its fourth consecutive weekly rise, while its assessment for the ferro-van...Read More

By: Gary Savage Gold attacked last Friday, right on que. Gold is churning $1800 resistance zone. Banks still stuck in this huge short position:https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More

David Haggith The first graph gives you a glimpse of the "huge jobs rebound" that shocked the stock market into spurting past its 200 DMA barriers because retail investors and algos aren't looking past the headlines.The second graph below shows you what a tiny difference that made to the total number of jobs that were lost:Some recovery, huh?In broader context, that looks like this:Why the drama...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday June 11 that are worth another look.GFG Alliance is to create its first "Greensteel" facility in Europe at its Liberty Steel facility in Galati, Romania, as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030, the company said this week.A deal for third-quarter aluminium ingot supply to Japan has been concluded at a premium of $68 p...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold is $20 from new close highs! Gold negated downtrend on Tuesday, Wednesday trying to build an uptrend. The $1733 area is support on the 18-dma:Read More

Gold is on the way to $1836.70. Comments by Federal Reserve chairman at the Federal Reserve meeting is the reason. Correction of gold price in US session will come only if US weekly jobless numbers beats street expectations by a big margin. Selling gold and silver on the basis of US May nonfarm payrolls has resulted in short covering yesterday post FOMC surprise. I was focused more on copper and...Read More

The London Metal Exchange recently reiterated its willingness to facilitate spot trading of low carbon aluminium. While not a new concept for the exchange, it would serve two important purposes. First, it would provide more transparent, digitalized data on the specification of its aluminium brands and determine whether people are actually paying more for low carbon metal. Second, it would pro...Read More

The China virus, the economic lockdowns, and themulti-trillion-dollar rescue efforts of central bankers have dominated marketsover the past three months.However, as lockdowns gradually lift and the 2020 election drawsnearer, investors will begin to focus more on political developments.The once-strong economy that President Donald Trump had hopedwould propel him to re-election has collapsed. The Pr...Read More

The London Metal Exchange has bolstered efforts to explore low-carbon initiatives this month, emphasizing green aluminium production as its target, but at a time of unprecedented distortions across the global raw materials supply chain, market sentiment remains mixed. The exchange is set to begin exploring steps to incorporate diversified aluminium production into its systems, LME chief executive...Read More

The London Metal Exchange aluminium price has climbed 6.5% so far this month, piggybacking on the uptrend in the rest of the complex, even though aluminium stocks at registered warehouses are at a three-year high. The three-month aluminium price hit an intraday high of $1,640 per tonne before closing at $1,627.50 per tonne on June 10, up from $1,528 per tonne at the start of the month. This is up...Read More

When the economic crisis hits, the first instinct is to analyze the previous catastrophes to learn what to expect from and how to handle the current calamity. So, not surprisingly, many analysts have already pointed to the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) as the most relevant example. However, is really the current coronavirus recession similar to the Great Recession? Let’s compare these t...Read More

Though gasoline demand remains historically weak, commuters are beginning to head back to their offices, opting for the isolation of their personal vehicles and abandoning public transit, reports McAlinden Research.Saudi Arabia enhanced their commitment to OPEC+ supply cuts as the Kingdom said they'd shut production of additional 1 million barrels of crude oil per day next month. Most of the OPEC+...Read More

A slew of extensive stimulus measures to boost the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic is unlikely to provide any immediate support to prices for cobalt and lithium in China, according to market participants. In the past two weeks, several European countries, including Germany and the United Kingdom, either announced schemes to encourage the adop...Read More

All base metals lost ground during trading on Thursday June 11, with the London Metal Exchange three-month aluminium price falling by 2% to close at $1,601.50 per tonne.There were 15,086 lots of aluminium traded on Thursday, and the underlying aluminium price touched an intraday high of $1,629.50 per tonne, although that is still lower than Wednesday's closing price of $1,638 per tonne.LME alumini...Read More

The silvermarket is on the move. In fact, it’s finally moving out ahead of otherprecious metals and showing some real leadership. After the panic selling of March briefly brought spot silverbelow $12/oz, prices have since surged by 50%. That’s an impressive move totake place within the span of just two months.The question for investors now is whether the recent rally insilver is fleeti...Read More

The London Metal Exchange has bolstered efforts to explore low-carbon initiatives this month, emphasizing green aluminium production as its target, but at a time of unprecedented distortions across the global raw materials supply chain, market sentiment remains mixed. The exchange is set to begin exploring steps to incorporate diversified aluminium production into its systems, LME chief executive...Read More

The London Metal Exchange aluminium price has climbed 6.5% so far this month, piggybacking on the uptrend in the rest of the complex, even though aluminium stocks at registered warehouses are at a three-year high. The three-month aluminium price hit an intraday high of $1,640 per tonne before closing at $1,627.50 per tonne on June 10, up from $1,528 per tonne at the start of the month. This is up...Read More

A BIG CHANGE is coming... by Steve St Angelo of SRSrocco ReportFew investors realize that the fundamentals for silver continue to improve each and every day. Unfortunately, the bullish case for owning silver is lost in a market that has gone utterly insane trading high-flying over-leveraged tech stocks and other assorted financial garbage assets. This is the way of the world presently... but a...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Iron ore prices have shot up as market participants have judged the supply risks from Covid-19 higher at this point in time when there is already a tight seaborne market. Despite the efforts to ramp up, Vale is struggling to catch up with its pre-dam disaster export volumes and its slow recovery has only been hit further by...Read More

The London Metal Exchange has bolstered efforts to explore low-carbon initiatives this month, emphasizing green aluminium production as its target, but at a time of unprecedented distortions across the global raw materials supply chain, market sentiment remains mixed. The exchange is set to begin exploring steps to incorporate diversified aluminium production into its systems, LME chief executive...Read More