Steve St. Angelo, SRSrocco Report What goes up, must come down. And, this is most certainly true for the mighty North Dakota Bakken... the second-largest shale oil-producing region in the United States. Even after the global contagion fades away, the North Dakota Bakken has likely reached peak production. According to a new chart by Jean Laherrere, from his recent work titled, Negative WT...Read More

By: Ira Epstein18-day moving average near 1740, strong support in the lower $1700's: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 government of South Africa has eased the country's lockdown, yet the continued threat of Covid-19 will dampen the recovery in chrome and manganese ore supply.The government of South Africa hopes its miners will ramp up production and bolster the flagging South African economy following the lowering of the nationwide alert on Monday June 1, easing restrictions to combat the Covid-19 virus. "Und...Read More

Before we look at tonights charts I would like to go over some challenges that we’ll face as the current impulse move in the PM complex continues to move higher. It’s not everyday that you will find yourself getting in close to the bottom of a multi month rally. One of the biggest problems I’ve witnessed over the years, especially with PM stock investors, is they grow complacent...Read More

How long it will take the global economy to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic is anyone's guess right now.Could the world's major economic regions be in for an "LUV" recovery similar to the one they saw after the global financial crisis of 2008-09?That was the format of recovery that was expected in 2009 by former Rio Tinto chief executive officer Tom Albanese, who was at the helm of the mining g...Read More

The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to lead to another casualty: the mega mine. The volatility created by crises like Covid-19 is adding a layer of uncertainty to the development of large-scale projects that take a decade or more to progress and are highly capital intensive, according to Tom Albanese, the former chief executive officer of Rio Tinto.This means that mining projects are likely to be deve...Read More

This week, Powell gave a long television interview and a testimony to the Senate. What groundbreaking did he say, and what do his remarks imply for the gold market?Powell Gives Interview and TestifiesPowell dominated media news this week. On Sunday, the Fed Chair gave an interview to CBS news magazine “60 Minutes,” while on Tuesday, he testified before Congress. What did he say? In an...Read More

The move of a lifetime isjust beginning!The senior mining companieshave led this rally for the past year. In the metals sector you get leadershiprotation from bullion, silver, senior miners, and junior miners. Silver and thejunior miners have yet to break out of their 2016 highs, but it's coming. Webelieve the junior miners will be next and break through the elusive $52 level. Once this price is b...Read More

To be bullish or not to be – thatis the question. Or it might have been the question, if someonenamed Shakespeare wrote a piece titled Investhamlet.The choice whether to be bullish or bearish orneutral on a given asset should be made each day, each time based on theinformation that is currently available. Let’s check the new signs that we sawyesterday. First of all, we just saw a beari...Read More

This week has been a wild and emotional one and it’s just started! With Monday’s big pop in the stock indexes, the big rally was based on vaccine news and bullish comments from the fed, convincing most traders and investors to be overly bullish this week.My volume flow indicator showed a reading of 10 all day yesterday, which means ten shares were being bought on the NYSE at the ask, t...Read More

In my previousarticle, I’ve written about how important US dollar movements arefor future Silver prices. The chances of a significant Silver rally during US dollarstrength is very low; and it is very high during US dollar decline.The structure of the Silver bull marketsince 2001 has a lot in common with that of the 70s bull market. However, oneof the important differences pertains to US doll...Read More

Nervous investors have been pouring into the goldand silver markets over the past two months. Money Metals Exchange is proud to have helped almost 20,000 newcustomers with a precious metals purchase in recent weeks, many of whom cameover from other dealers struggling with inventory shortages and ridiculousdelivery delays.A new wave of investors is getting the message; the FederalReserve will never...Read More

Whenever one hears the words precious metals, goldand silver spring to mind. But this world is much richer, and preciousmetals don’t end with the yellow or white metal. The less well knowncousins, platinum and palladium, can and do send valuable signals too. Beforewe examine silver, let’s take a look at something interesting in palladium. The interesting detail is palladium’s wea...Read More

A summary of London Metal Exchange warrant premiums from across the globe for the week to Wednesday June 3.Please click...Read More

Just like the precious metals market, black gold ended the previous week with a sizable upswing. The rally continued in the early Monday trading, as crude oil moved decisively above its previous April highs. The breakout above the April highs is a sign of strength, but it’s not been confirmed so far. Crude oil did close the previous week above the highest daily close of April, but it was jus...Read More

So here we are, with the sector leading the recovery out of the March crash during still-deflationary times. Inflation? It is not yet anywhere to be found, and that probably has a lot of inflation-centric would-be gold boosters on the sidelines. Someday, when these ladies are in full cheer with inflation signals rising, it will be time for caution.Meanwhile, for years we have stuck to the real fun...Read More

Base metals price on the London Metal Exchange had moved sideways at the close of trading on Wednesday June 3, with most of the complex maintaining gains made earlier in the week against a steady improvement in risk-appetite.Copper's outright price on the LME closed at $5,524 per tonne on Wednesday afternoon, while turnover was moderate at just over 15,000 lots exchanged by the close. Similarly, L...Read More

The gold price made a new 2020 high today and looks poised to take out the nominal all-time high around $1,920 and then challenge $2,000 in the months ahead. Some are even estimating that gold could climb to $3,000 by year-end on account of the nearly $10 trillion in new money/debt/stimulus that is being created in the US alone to fight the pandemic.This 2020 gold price target of $3,000 is a littl...Read More

Seaborne premium hard coking coal prices dropped on Wednesday June 3 after a transaction was completed at $107.33 per tonne cfr China on Tuesday. Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $106.46 per tonne, down $2.51 per tonne Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $114.95 per tonne, down $1.93 per tonneHard coking coal, fob DBCT: $87.66 per tonne, down $1.91 per tonn...Read More