Looking at Canada’s most significant exports to Britain, it’s fairly easy to come up with an at-a-glance “gold and autos” thesis. But the best trends are those that serve a double purpose. Buying gold and auto stocks for a potential investment rush into Britain is all well and good. But what if that British bulldog market doesn’t quite materialize? What then? The fact...Read More

We’ve experienced a few black swan events over the years, but none of them have been quite like the COVID-19 pandemic. An unprecedented event, the likes of which was never even on the cards, the pandemic created a lot of uncertainty. Stock markets declined 35% within a few weeks between February and March 2020.After phenomenal ups and downs, most stocks managed to pull some gains by the time...Read More

Stocks are hovering around all-time highs. Valuations are the highest since the dot-com bubble. Various experts and some of the greatest investors of all time, including Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, have warned investors for some time that we’re approaching nosebleed levels in terms of valuations right now.With the potential for a 2021 market crash on the horizon, let’s look at w...Read More

For those with Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) room this tax year, this ETF could save your portfolio.Many high-profile investors much smarter than me think now is the time to hedge. With a market crash potentially on the horizon, many investors are loading up on counter-cyclical investments. Warren Buffett has (uncharacteristically) recently invested in the gold sector, tapping Bar...Read More

(Updates prices) * Dollar slips to multi-year lows * Platinum hits highest level since August 2016* Silver hits over three-month peak * Silver set to shine in 2021* Interactive graphic tracking global spread of coronavirus: By Shreyansi SinghJan 4 (Reuters) - Gold prices rose more than 2% on Monday totheir highest level in nearly two months, bolstered by thedollar's slide ahead of runoff elections...Read More

The London Metal Exchange three-month nickel price had the biggest rise of 4.8% and tin crossed the $21,000 per tonne mark for the first time since April 2019 in an upbeat start to the year for the entire complex on Monday January 4, where all forward prices rose by more than 1%. Nickel's price closed on Monday at 5pm $17,404 per tonne after closing last year at $16,613 per tonne. Nickel's rising...Read More

Except for copper, base metals stocks in Shanghai Futures Exchange-registered warehouses all recorded falls in the week to Thursday December 31, with zinc down the most by 13%. The anomaly in stock copper levels was stark, surging by 15.3%, while the rest of the base metals' inventories declined.Copper inventories totaled 86,679 tonnes on Thursday December 31, up by 11,530 tonnes or 15.3% from a w...Read More

Jack ChanPosted Jan 4, 20212020 Traders log(Click on image to enlarge)In 2020, our closed positions realized a profit of 22.67%, while our open positions are sitting on a profit of 15%. A very fruitful year.As always, we do not offer predictions or forecasts for the markets. We simply follow our trading models to see what and when we should be invested in.Looking ahead to 2021…….Gold...Read More

The London Metal Exchange nickel price led the way on morning trading on Monday January 4 with a 4.3% rise from its closing price of 2020, reflecting an upbeat start to the year where all metals' forward prices rose by more than 1%. The three-month nickel price was at $17,335 per tonne on Monday at 9am, from Thursday December 31's closing price of $16,613 per tonne. Copper's three-month price was...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday January 4 that are worth another look.News of Covid-19 vaccines being distributed and administered around the world has boosted sentiment in Asian economies, with steel markets in the region seemingly upbeat on prospects in 2021.Sustainable mining of lithium - a critical...Read More

View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2021-2022.Click on the image below to view the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for base metals, minors, ores & alloys and industrial minerals, and ferrous prices for 2021 and 2022. If you have any questions about Fastmarkets' pricing calendar, please contact Fastmarkets global base metals editor Juliet Walsh at juliet.walsh@fastmarke...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (NasdaqCM: SYTA, SYTAW / TSX-V:SIM / FRA: WK3D) (the "Company" or "Siyata") is pleased to announce that it has closed a private placement in Israel and Canada of 129,450 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of US$100 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of US$12,945,000 (the "Offering"). Each Unit consisted of ten common shares of the Company (the "Sha...Read More

Key data from the pricing sessions in Europe, Asia and the United States for the week ending Friday January 1.China Both low-and high-grade manganese ore indices were published on Monday January 4 as per Fastmarkets' holiday pricing schedule. Seaborne manganese ore prices were little changed amid thin activity...Read More

Spot trading of copper concentrates was quiet in the last week of December, with fewer purchases from both smelters and traders. Fastmarkets' copper concentrate treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) continued to rise, with offers for copper concentrates to smelters remaining in the mid to high $40s, while smelters bid at $50 per tonne for clean qualities. A combo deal of Bisha and clean qualitie...Read More

View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2021-2022.Click on the image below to view the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for base metals, minors, ores & alloys and industrial minerals, and ferrous prices for 2021 and 2022. If you have any questions about Fastmarkets' pricing calendar, please contact Fastmarkets global base metals editor Juliet Walsh at juliet.walsh@fastmarke...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday January 4 that are worth another look.News of Covid-19 vaccines being distributed and administered around the world has boosted sentiment in Asian economies, with steel markets in the region seemingly upbeat on prospects in 2021.Sustainable mining of lithium - a critical...Read More

The Turkish deep-sea scrap markets were quiet at the start of this week due to new year holidays, but purchasing activity was expected to resume soon, market sources said on Monday January 4.Turkish steelmakers have been silent in the deep-sea markets since December 24, when a steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo containing 30,000 tonnes of shredded scrap at $480 per tonne cf...Read More

Turkish domestic prices for auto bundle steel scrap have gone down with the strengthening of the country's lira, while firm values for imported scrap were keeping ship scrap prices on an upward trend over the past week, sources said on Monday January 4.The Turkish lira has become stronger since the Turkish Central Bank raised interest rates on December 24.The bank raised the one-week repo rate by...Read More

The new year has started with optimism in the air and base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange were up by an average of 1.8% and 1.4% respectively this morning, Monday January 14. Most Asian-Pacific equity indices were also showing gains, while the dollar index remains in low ground.Volume traded on the LME has been high with 12,012 lots traded as at 6.38am Lon...Read More

Red River Resources Limited (ASX: RVR) is seeking to build a multi-asset operating business, focused on base and precious metals. Red River's foundation asset is the Thalanga Base Metal Operation, in Northern Queensland that has been producing copper, lead and zinc concentrate, since 2017. RVR has recently acquired the past producing, high-grade Hillgrove Gold Project, in New South Wales, which is...Read More