Investing in gold is a topic that gets a lot of attention on Fool, and rightfully so. Playing gold is not an easy task. At times, this asset class trades as a commodity based on capital flows. Other times, this asset class trades as a pure hedge to currency devaluation or inflation.Right now, gold is trading in a downtrend after hitting an all-time high earlier last year. With gold still trading a...Read More

The equity markets have managed to survive a highly volatile year as the world continued to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. The stock markets lost 36% in market value in five weeks but gained significant momentum to end 2020 at record highs.The stock market rally was fueled by tech stocks and companies in the renewable energy or electric vehicle sectors. Alternatively, companies in the aviatio...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday January 7 that are worth another look.The provisional anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Turkish hot-rolled coil by the European Commission are neither reasonable nor fair, Turkish steel exporters told Fastmarkets on January 7.The blockade...Read More

Forward prices for copper and nickel on the London Metal Exchange continued to reach new highs during trading on Thursday January 7, while the rest of the base-metals complex showed smaller increases than those seen at the beginning of the week on a marked rebound in the US dollar index.Nickel's three-month price achieved a new 16-month high of $18,200 per tonne on Thursday, with the uptake of ele...Read More

The blockade at the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru has been partially ended on a temporary basis pending a dialogue between local community members and mining company MMG, Fastmarkets learned on Thursday January 7. But the path to a resolution remains uncertain, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. Meanwhile, transport of copper concentrate is still minimal because it will take time...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesJan 7, 2021I’ve followed Anaconda for years and never come to grips as to why they seem to get no respect.In their latest press release they showed 871.2 g/t gold over half a meter, 47.87 g/t over 1.5 meters and 20.08 g/t Au over 2.4 meters at Goldboro. This is all part of an 18,000 meter drill program designed to move resources from the inferred category into the measur...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday January 7 that are worth another look.The provisional anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Turkish hot-rolled coil by the European Commission are neither reasonable nor fair, Turkish steel exporters told Fastmarkets on January 7.The blockade...Read More

The Chinese alumina price rose slightly this week following a spate of panic buying after railway transport in Shijiazhuang, in the northern Chinese province of Hebei, was suspended amid a rise in Covid-19 infections, market participants told Fastmarkets. All trains arriving in or departing from Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei, have been canceled since Wednesday January 6. Shijiazhuang Cit...Read More

The blockade at the Las Bambas copper mine in Peru has been partially ended on a temporary basis pending a dialogue between local community members and mining company MMG, Fastmarkets learned on Thursday January 7. But the path to a resolution remains uncertain, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said. Meanwhile, transport of copper concentrate is still minimal because it will take time...Read More

China Copper's raw materials director Feng Mingrui will be the next group leader of the country's top copper smelters after a tie vote at a recent meeting, sources told Fastmarkets.Feng, who previously worked at Daye Nonferrous and Trafigura, received the same number of votes as Jinchuan Group's Yang Xiangbin at a meeting of the China Smelters Purchase Team (CSPT) in late December.The CSPT eventua...Read More

Greenlandic pension fund SISA Pension has joined Danish national investment fund Vækstfonden and the Greenland State investment company Greenland Venture as investors in GAM.Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday January 7 that are worth another look.The provisional anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Turkish hot-rolled coil by the European Commission are neither reasonable nor fair, Turkish steel exporters told Fastmarkets on January 7.The blockade...Read More

Botswana's minister of mineral resources granted Lucara a 25-year licence extension on Tuesday.Read More

Spot cobalt hydroxide payables surged in the first half of this week with Chinese consumers actively seeking units while logistical bottlenecks continued to cap suppliers' ability to deliver January cargoes. Fastmarkets' assessment of the cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China moved up to 86-88.5% against standard-grade cobalt price (low end) on Wednesday January 6, from 82-83%...Read More

Turkish steelmakers continued to book deep-sea scrap cargoes for February and March shipment at firm prices, sources said on Thursday January 7.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a US cargo, comprising 15,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $480 per tonne, 22,000 tonnes of shredded and 10,000 tonnes of bonus at $490 per tonne cfr.And a steel mill in the Izmir region booked a Baltic Sea cargo a...Read More

Prices for plate and structural-grade scrap (P&S), known as HS in Japan, have shown a slight increase over the past week on strong demand from mills in both Japan and China, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday January 7.China booked at least four steel scrap cargoes from Japan in the first week of 2021 following an easing in the country's import regulations, with most of these deals done for HS h...Read More

Markets remained upbeat on the morning of Thursday January 7 despite the outbreak of violence in Washington, DC, with nickel joining copper and tin in setting fresh new multi-month highs but gold turning lower.Asian-Pacific equities generally upbeat, along with pre-market western equity index futures as the US Democrats win the Senate US 10-year treasury yields continue to rise Base metals Th...Read More

Spot cobalt hydroxide payables surged in the first half of this week with Chinese consumers actively seeking units while logistical bottlenecks continued to cap suppliers' ability to deliver January cargoes. Fastmarkets' assessment of the cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China moved up to 86-88.5% against standard-grade cobalt price (low end) on Wednesday January 6, from 82-83%...Read More

Are you a Teslanaire?This is a new term that describes investors who bought early shares of Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and became millionaires in the process.If you bought 1,000 shares of Tesla right after it went public at around $25 per share - back when I told investors it would be a wise investment - you might be a Teslanaire.To be exact, those initial 1,000 shares would've been worth more than $1 m...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday January 7 that are worth another look.The provisional anti-dumping duties imposed on imports of Turkish hot-rolled coil by the European Commission are neither reasonable nor fair, Turkish steel exporters told Fastmarkets on January 7.The blockade...Read More