Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Shanghai, New York and Galway on Friday May 1.China China's domestic prices climbed on a more active spot market, with mills restocking ahead of the Labor Day holiday from May 1-5.Production costs for ferro-silicon will increase...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ended Friday May 1.China The rise in UG2 chrome ore prices slowed down after China's major stainless steel mills all raised their ferro-chrome tender prices by a lower-than-expected amount. The imported charge chrome price ticked upward by $0.01 per tonne on improving sentiment and with availability of material f...Read More
An article in Canada's french La Press today announced that Canada had fiished selling off its gold reserves. The last time a country sold their gold it was England at US$275 per ounce in 2002. It turned out to be a bottom (the worst time to sell) as it is now around US$1700 per ounce. Let's see if history repeats itself. I have always been on the record to support assets with no counter party ris...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the session ending Friday May 1. China Low-grade seaborne manganese ore retreated after last week's jump, hit by disappointing alloy tender prices, softening local alloys futures prices and a weakening ferrous sector. The seaborne 44% index...Read More
Yesterday the gold miner announced the US$460 million acquisition of Lundin Gold's debt and streaming facilities over the newly commissioned, tier one Fruta del Norte (FDN) mine in Ecuador.Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesMay 1, 2020I’ve had a few comments lately on the pieces I have been writing about where we stand politically and with the Corona Virus. One complained and said that he loves my comments on markets but I was getting too political.Of course I am. I thought we had two totally different crises on our hands today. Most people only see one, that of the Corona Virus. Obviously...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort287,38224,65344,448114,902408,531446,732477,632Change from Prior Reporting Period 5,119-8,0393,519-1,90611,6506,7327,130Traders20354715959290159 Small Speculators (C) GoldSeek.com LongShortOpen Interest 54,08423,184500,816 9265287,658 non reportable positionsChange from the pr...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold market has backed off here. Not pretty on the chart action on gold..Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesMay 01, 2020 Silver is powering higher in a new bull market after getting clobbered in March's stock panic. Investors have been flocking back to silver in the aftermath of that ultra-rare extreme-fear event. That brutal selloff also utterly wiped out speculators' upside bets in silver futures, giving them massive room to buy back in. After being pummeled to record-low levels r...Read More
The price of containerized ferrous scrap imports into India slumped further this week due to the continued lack of trading under the lockdown conditions in the country, as well as a drop in the global scrap markets, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday May 1.Fastmarkets calculated the steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India, at $259.38 per tonne on Friday, down from $269.13 per...Read More
The Turkish deep-sea scrap import market ended the week with a lower-priced deal coming to light on Friday May 1, in line with market expectations for the direction of prices, sources told Fastmarkets.News of the cargo came to light late on Thursday, with a steel mill in the Iskenderun region buying a European cargo comprising 17,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $236 per tonne cfr, and 7...Read More
The inter-merchant spot price for light iron scrap in the UK has edged up over the past week, climbing by ?5 ($6) per tonne amid increased competition among some major shredders for feed, while a slowdown in export markets has limited stronger advances, sources said on Friday May 1.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK, wa...Read More
The sharp decline in emerging market currencies combined with a collapse in oil prices are providing a twin saving grace for many metals and mining companies during the Covid-19 pandemic. For producers of energy-intensive metals like aluminium, and in particular the low-cost ones, the benefit is even greater. It's an emerging trend that is starting to be reflected in the earnings of corporates in...Read More
TORONTO - Through an emergency order passed today, the Ontario government is taking steps to defer a portion of Global Adjustment (GA) charges for industrial and commercial electricity consumers that do not participate in the Regulated Price Plan for the period starting from April 2020. This initiative is intended to provide companies with temporary immediate relief on their monthly electricity bi...Read More
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Share this articleTORONTO - Shares in Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. rose Friday after it released new production guidance and reported a first-quarter loss linked to temporary mine shutdowns to control spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.Agnico Eagle shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange rose by as much as 6.8 per cent or $5.53 to $86.86 before dropping back to $83.86 at 11 a.m. EDT.The Toronto-based gol...Read More
Share this articleSASKATOON - Cameco Corp. says spot uranium prices are up amid the production disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.The company says the uranium spot price has increased by more than 35 per cent since the company announced the first disruption at its Cigar Lake mine on March 23.The comment came as Cameco reported a first-quarter loss of $19 million or a nickel per share com...Read More
Share this articleCALGARY - Teck Resources Ltd. is leaving the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, an industry organization whose members represent about 80 per cent of Canada's oil and gas production.The move was made as part of a cost-cutting drive, Teck spokesman Chris Stannell said in an email, noting the company's 2019 CAPP membership cost about $135,000.Teck is targeting $1 bi...Read More