Prices for cold-heading quality (CHQ) and high-carbon wire rod in the United States both surged by $5 per hundredweight ($20 per short ton) month on month, supported by higher ferrous scrap prices. Fastmarkets' monthly assessment for steel wire rod (high carbon), fob mill US rose by 13.42% to $42.25 per cwt ($845 per ton) on Friday December 18 from $37.25 per cwt the prior month.Fastmark...Read More
Domestic rebar producers in Russia's Central Federal District around Moscow have withdrawn their offers for January supply in anticipation for returning at higher prices, several sources told Fastmarkets on Monday December 21.Last week, domestic rebar prices in the region increased sharply with Russian producers citing strong exports as the key driver for the rise.As a result, all major producers...Read More
The establishment wants Trump out, and there's nothing he can do about it. America is undergoing advanced economic & social collapse, and politically, it's gone. America is being stolen, and there's very little time...Paul Craig Roberts joined Silver Doctors on Monday, December 21, 2020, for a discussion on current events.Some of the topics in today's discussion include:- What does Dr. Roberts thi...Read More
Best-selling author Jim Rickards talks about a great escape from the U.S. dollar in 2021 and a massive influx of money that will flow into gold and bitcoin. "People are getting in gold and bitcoin because they want to get out of the dollar," the Currency Wars author tells our Daniela Cambone as part of the Outlook series. Rickards also talks his new book, The Great New Depression, and how the firs...Read More
James Aitken makes a very welcome return to The End Game to take a look back at 2020 and a look forward to 2021.Where did he get things wrong and why? What went according to his forecasts, and, most importantly, what has this turbulent year taught him that will help him in the future?From the dangers of 'Big Dicking it' to Robert Shiller's nasty case of FOMO to the curious birth of the Equity Vigi...Read More
Gold, Silver and Gold Stocks have bottomed and are now setting up for a continued rebound into 2021. Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Association.. He is the publisher and editor of TheDailyGold Premium, a publication which emphasizes market timing and stock selection for the sophisticated investor, as well as TheDailyGold Global, an add-o...Read More
There is absolutely no evidence the mask mandate worked to slow the spread one iota.Continue...Read More
If the Supreme Court rejects this petition, they have surrendered the law to "discretion" and that is the end of the United States. Continue...Read More
John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. Mr. Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney's James Turk, of The Money Bubble and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It. He spent the 1980's on Wall Street as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990's he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a freq...Read More
The objective is plainly to destroy as much employment as Continue...Read More
1. The markets are down big this morning. The catalyst for the decline is a new virus strain discovered in the UK.At this time, the markets were overbought and the sell off matches up with the Winter Solstice. Often, markets will change trend around equinoxes and solstices. We shall see if this is just short term or maybe more meaningful. Seasonality is usually favorable for more upside, but this...Read More
China is taking a tougher stance on steel capacity swaps in a bid to control pollution emissions from its mammoth steelmaking industry and alleviate oversupply.Its Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT) released a draft last week to seek feedback from steel industry sources on increasing the steel capacity swap ratio to 1.5:1 from 1.25:1.This means that a steelmaker will need to cut...Read More
A video of a confrontation between Ventura County, California health officials and restaurant owner Anton Van Happen has gone viral. The health officials were ordering Mr. Van Happen to close his business because he allegedly violated California's ban on outdoor dining. Mr. Van Happen asked the health officials if the government will pay his employees and his rent while his business is indefinitel...Read More
"Evidence used to conduct this assessment includes more than 50 lawsuits and judicial rulings, thousands of affidavits and declarations, testimony in a variety of state venues, published analyses by Continue...Read More
France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands have all barred flights from the U.K. in addition to other nations around the world. Continue...Read More
You know something is wrong when someone makes a CNN host seem reasonable by comparison.Read More
Very few sectors are swallowed up by a single entity, and it's not yet clear that cryptos are an exception to that rule.Continue...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday December 21 that are worth another look.Market participants in Asia are bracing for sharp price corrections amid historically high prices for steel, iron ore and ferrous scrap in the region, industry sources told Fastmarkets this week.China's Zhuzhou zinc smelter has successfully met...Read More
Vale's permit for running operations in Brumadinho city was suspended for seven days following a landslide that caused the death of an employee from a third party contractor in the company's C??rrego do Feij??o mine in Brazil's southeastern Minas Gerais state.The Brumadinho city hall decided to suspend the permit after the accident, which occurred during maintenance activities in the mine on Frida...Read More
Westhaven Gold reported it drilled 5.50m of 4.58 g/t gold and 267.40 g/t silver at the newly discovered Forget Me Not Zone at its Shovelnose property in British Columbia. In a news release, gold-focused exploration company Westhaven Gold Corp. (WHN:TSX.V), reported assay results obtained during the firm's ongoing drill program at its Shovelnose gold property located south of Merritt, British Colu...Read More