Democrats take Georgia's Senate seats and with it, unified control of the government; Republicans focus on a last-gasp effort to stave off certified electoral college results; and the media lie about a police shooting again. Read More
"I do not believe that the Founders of our country intended to invest the Vice President with unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted during the Joint Session of Congress," Continue...Read More
Topics:- Your age and believing election fraud- Stacey Abrams won Georgia- ALL the exact same questionable behavior?- Ranking the credibility of various fraud claims- What will VP Pence do?Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts silver and explains why he believes the metal is primed to Continue...Read More
Here's looking at you, Federal Reserve-thanks for perfecting 'legalized looting' and neofeudalism in America. The problem with pushing a pendulum to its Continue...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Charlotte Radford, Cristina...Read More
Independent financial analyst Matt Badiali explains why he is closely watching Heliostar Metals' Alaska brownfields project, Unga. The assay labs are slow right now. It seems like every junior mining company has an "assays pending" press release. However, there is one company that I'm watching closely, because its Unga Project has huge potential.Heliostar Metals Ltd. (HSTR:TSX.V; RGCTF:OTC) is a...Read More
Generation Mining reports the final results of its 2020 program. In a news release, Generation Mining Ltd. (GENM:TSX; GENMF:OTCQB; 9GN:FSE) announced the final results of its 12-hole exploration drill program focusing on the W Horizon's downdip western extension at the Marathon palladium project in Ontario, Canada. Although the area is the subject of a feasibility study that is expected to be rel...Read More
The new San Juan shoot at Outcrop Gold's Santa Ana project returns 0.56 meters of 3,572 g/t silver equivalent. Outcrop Gold Santa AnaOutcrop Gold Corp. (OCG:TSX.V; MRDDF:OTCPK; MRG1:DB) announced in a news release it discovered a fifth high-grade shoot, named San Juan, at its Santa Ana project in Colombia. "Exploration at Santa Ana has been very efficient producing a high-grade shoot on average f...Read More
The prices for steel hollow sections in Europe have remained unchanged over the past week, with many market participants still on their Christmas and New Year holidays, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday January 6.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel sections (medium), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?800-820 ($982-1,007) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged from the previous assessm...Read More
The price of steel H-beams in Europe has already gone up this week, ahead of mills returning to the market after the New Year holiday break, with further large increases expected, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday January 6.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel beams, domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?700-720 ($859-884) per tonne on Wednesday, up from ?,?655-680 per tonne in...Read More
All Turkish flat steel prices increased sharply in December 2020, and the market was expected to remain steady in January because of globally strong demand for steel products, Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday January 6.Turkish hot-rolled coil producers were fully booked until April, and market participants believed that buying would remain strong in January, provided that prices remained firm.Global...Read More
What is it with billionaires and gold?When billionaire Sam Zell warned at the end of December that the dollar’s status as the world’s principal reserve currency was in jeopardy, it nudged something in the back of the mind about the number of billionaires over the past year who issued similar warnings. The wealthiest among us, it seems, are also the most vocal and proactive about the da...Read More
The United States has announced further sanctions on producers of Iranian steel and other metal products alongside foreign-based sales agents of an Iranian metals and mining holding company, but export steel billet and slab prices still rose this week with Iranian sources saying steel trade will be able to continue. US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday...Read More
Brazil's iron ore exports increased by a third in December compared with a year earlier, according to statistics from the country's economy ministry.It shipped 33.17 million tonnes of the steelmaking raw material last month, compared with 24.99 million tonnes in December 2019.Strong demand for steel in in China has...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday January 6 that are worth another look.The import price for cargoes of steel billet to Southeast Asia started the new year flat even after sellers sought to raise offers to the market, sources told Fastmarkets.Read More
Nickel premiums were steady across the globe in the week to Tuesday January 5, while China's nickel sulfate market strengthened amid demand support and limited spot supply. Inquiries in the Shanghai nickel plate market grew with the narrowing import arbitrage loss following China's nickel import tax cut, but premiums have thus far been unchanged due to the closure of the arbitrage window...Read More
Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States rebounded on Wednesday January 6, but talk of lower deals remained in the market. Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $51.54 per hundredweight ($1,030.80 per short ton) on January 6, bouncing back up by 2.22% after falling to $50.42 per cwt on Tuesday January 5 and 0.57% higher than $51.25 per cwt on December 30,...Read More
All Turkish flat steel prices increased sharply in December 2020, and the market was expected to remain steady in January because of globally strong demand for steel products, Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday January 6.Turkish hot-rolled coil producers were fully booked until April, and market participants believed that buying would remain strong in January, provided that prices remained firm.Global...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday January 6 that are worth another look.The import price for cargoes of steel billet to Southeast Asia started the new year flat even after sellers sought to raise offers to the market, sources told Fastmarkets.Read More