Prices for steel hollow sections in Europe remained unchanged this week after feedstock prices begin to plateau following a period of upward movement, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday February 3.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel sections (medium), domestic, delivered Northern Europe was ?,?850-870 ($1,022-1,046) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged week on week.After weeks of increases for...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday February 3 that are worth another look.ArcelorMittal Italia has resumed operations at blast furnace (BF) No2 and coke battery No9 at its Taranto steel plant in the south of Italy, the producer said on February 3.Rio Tinto...Read More

The frenzy of buying activity in silver, attributed to a group of retail investors using the Reddit forum r/WallStreetBets and other social media sites, is waning.The silver surge - which began on January 27 and saw the price of the industrial metal soar to an eight-year high of more than $30 per oz before slipping to just below $27 per oz by Tuesday January 2 - followed a phenomenal upswell in th...Read More

Sector expert Michael Ballanger ruminates on how the storming of the U.S. Capitol has affected both America's reputation and the precious metals markets, as well as on the value of "value."The events of this week are dominating the news cycle, with a sitting president days away from being replaced while Congressional and Senatorial leaders debate whether he should be impeached immediatel...Read More

Below is our long term goldforecast, it continues to be bullish on a monthly basis, despite the turbulenceof 2020 gold has performed well and a pause for a few months is entirelyreasonable given the speed of its initial acceleration. As you can see from our monthlychart, gold is clearly at significant levels - hovering around the 2011 highs, theunderlying structure of the market is still very posi...Read More

A global reshuffling of metallurgical coal trade flows and a limited supply of the steelmaking raw material have caused seaborne prices to spike in recent weeks.Global reshuffleIn the seaborne market, coking coal cargoes from the United States and Canada flowed to China after the East Asian country imposed a ban on the import of Australian coal in October 2020.Chinese steelmakers who could no long...Read More

In this first trading week of 2021, a new investment theme appears to be emerging. That theme can be summed up in a single word – reflation.A resurgence of inflation is being priced into asset classes across the board. Stocks are rallying to new records. Shares of Tesla and alternative energy companies are going to the moon. Marijuana stocks are suddenly back in vogue. Bitcoin is going bonke...Read More

A hazy outlook for China's ferrous sector after the upcoming Chinese New Year holiday is overwhelming the Asian steel industry, resulting in a market divided on prices and purchasing decisions, sources told Fastmarkets this week.Steel demand"The situation for the Chinese steel market is unclear now. It's not clear whether demand will rebound after the Chinese New Year. Many market participants in...Read More

2021 started off well for gold. It’s not surprising, as January is usually positive for the yellow metal, but the Georgia runoff results may constitute an additional bullish factor in the longer term.What a start to the new year! Gold has begun 2021 very well : as the chart below shows, the price of the yellow metal (London A.M. Fix) increased from $1,891 on December 31, 2020 to $1,947 on Ja...Read More

If you follow our research, you already know my research team and I have authored multiple articles related to how Metals and Miners are poised for a big rally in 2021 and beyond.  But do you understand what this means for other market sectors and assets?  Are you ready for one of the most dynamic investing environments we’ve seen since 1945 or earlier? Gold and Miners are showing...Read More

The thing that most likely raisedquite a few eyebrows this week was – in addition to gold’s recent move byitself – the fact that gold rallied mostly without the dollar’s help. Yesterday(Jan. 5) I wrote that one swallow doesn’t make a summer and that a singlesession rarely changes much.We didn’t have to wait for long – thesituation seems to be getting back...Read More

Zinc's price was nearly 2% higher on the London Metal Exchange with dip-buying having started and futures prices edging upward on Wednesday February 3, following two days of decreases, with the easing of the Dollar Index helping to support metal prices.Zinc's three-month price closed 1.8% higher at $2,615 per tonne on Wednesday at 5pm, the first time it has closed above the $2,600 per tonne mark s...Read More

The fob seaborne premium hard coking coal price edged up on Wednesday February 3 after a transaction for premium low-volatility hard coking coal was sealed at a higher price, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $157.53 per tonne, up $0.74 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $217.23 per tonne, down $0.50 per tonneHard coking coal, f...Read More

Peter Krauth discusses the confluence of factors that points to the gold bull market having plenty of upside ahead. In investing, as in life, perspective is everything.To some, gold at $1,525 as we started out 2020 seemed expensive. Today, it's trading at $1,940, producing a 27% gain.And yet, from several viewpoints, gold still looks cheap at current prices. Debt, easy money and geopolitical risks...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses the dollar's fall and what it means for gold. We now have a very rare setup for gold which is in position to "go ballistic" as the dollar collapses. The dollar is being intentionally destroyed by the Fed, which is creating dollars in vast unprecedented quantities in order to buy up distressed assets on the cheap and in order to pave the way for the new "digi...Read More

Iron ore prices edged up on Wednesday February 3, supported by an increase in inquiries from steel mills intending purchase, although trading activity was still limited, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $152.65 per tonne, up $2.85 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $152.90 per tonne, up $2.53 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade p...Read More

Gold ended 2020 at $1,891, partially thanks to monetary policy easing. In 2021, the Fed may not trigger a comparable rally in gold, but it should offer gold prices some support.Welcome to 2021! I hope that it will be a wonderful year for all of you; a much healthier, calmer and normal year than 2020 was. And even more profitable of course! Indeed, at least gold bulls could be satisfied with the la...Read More

If global elites have their way, 2021 will bethe year of the “Great Reset.”They believe now, after the coronavirus and lockdownpolicies have inflicted a heavy toll on the public, is the perfect opportunityto implement their technocratic vision.Their longstanding plans to transform economiesin the name of various “sustainability” and “equity” goals are beingaggre...Read More

We see this time and time and time again...by Sean of SGTreportTyler Wall the CEO of SD Bullion returns to SGT Report to discuss the most blatantly manipulated and undervalued market on earth, silver. Read More

They'll turn the "silver squeeze" into a "silver smash" faster than they stole the ele...e....e...errr...uh, um, yeah. They still have their "ace up the sleeve" too!First and foremost, there is no bigger Silver Bug, nor PermaBull, than I.Or me.Or whatever.There are plenty more good writers though.At least, that's what they say.But whatever.I'm downright discouraged right now because apparently, Jo...Read More