Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States went up slightly on consistently and firmly higher offer prices at mills, but the market was largely unchanged compared with the short working week before the national Thanksgiving holiday, celebrated Thursday November 28.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $27.79 per hundredweight ($555.80 per short ton) on...Read More
Brazilian steelmaker Usiminas will increase domestic steel prices by an additional 5% in January 2020, following a previous notification of a 5% hike to be implemented in the fourth quarter this year.The company saw the opportunity to raise its flat-steel prices amid the unfavorable currency exchange for imports in the country and the current global uptrend, commercial vice president Miguel Homes...Read More
Singapore rebar import prices have risen in the past week on higher raw materials prices.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar) import, cfr Singapore, which mainly looks at cargoes sold into Singapore on a theoretical-weight basis, was at $430-440 per tonne in the week to Monday December 2, widening upwards by $5 per tonne.Offers for Qatari rebar were at $445-4...Read More
Northern China's rebar prices decreased on Monday December 2 on weakening demand, but those in eastern China held steady amid support from gains in the futures market. Eastern China (Shanghai): 4,010-4,040 yuan ($570-575) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Beijing): 3,760-3,790 yuan per tonne, down 20-30 yuan per tonne Average working hours at construction sites in northern areas o...Read More
The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for rebar, wire rod, beams and other long steel products. Latest transaction: rebarRebar East China, domestic, grade...Read More
Turkish steel producers continued to book deep-sea scrap for January shipment at steady prices, but at a slower pace, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday December 2.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a US cargo late on Friday November 29, comprising 10,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $272 per tonne and 30,000 tonnes of shredded at $277 per tonne cfr.This was the first US deal since November...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 325,28653,65293,522191,548497,015610,356644,189 Change from Prior Reporting Period -12,0102,215-16,214-15,078-28,706-43,302-42,705 Traders 18560794955265170 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 58,91225,079669,268 -6,641-7,238-49,943 non reportable po...Read More
Strengths? The best performing metal for the week was palladium, up 3.66 percent. Palladium reached a fresh record this week, reports Bloomberg, hitting $1,842.76 an ounce and extending this year's rally to 46 percent. Gold also witnessed safe haven buying following Trump's signing of a bill supporting Hong Kong protestors. Despite renewed hopes for a U.S.-China trade pact, hol...Read More
By: Larry LaBorde When considering the space requirements of $1,000,000, the first question is in what form? I will try to illustrate the volume and weight of $1 million dollars in three forms: $100 bills, gold eagle coins and silver eagle coins. I have had some customers surprised by the volume of metals they have ordered when it arrives. Some have been overwhelmed (usually with silver)...Read More
By: Gary Savage After 2013, we started see these huge pre-market dumps in gold. Banks playing the markets with massive contract dumps on the markets, in five minutes or less, usually in the pre-market where that contract volume size will start to..Read More
Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsThe basic idea behind the Quantity Theory of Money could be stated as: too much money supply is chasing too little goods supply, so prices rise. We have debunked this from several angles. For example, we can use a technique that every first year student in physics is expected to know. Dimensional analysis looks at the units on both sides of an equation.Money supply...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Our friend J.D. writes today:"I write regarding the interesting response you received from Shawn Elizabeth Phillips, corporate secretary at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, by e-mail dated November 13, 2019:http://www.gata.org/node/19583"The New York Fed's response points to purported Dodd-Frank law rules prohibiting disclosing for two years of the identities of...Read More
The next two weeks are big global economic data days and central banks meetings (including FOMC). Eastern European central banks have started increasing gold reserves. Those central banks whose gold have been stored in vaults in UK have started to repatriate their gold or have given their intention to take back their gold. But bank of England is not giving gold to South American nations. This wi...Read More
The 62% Fe iron ore market trended lower in November, with prices falling 5.5% month on month, while the 65% price fell 1% from October. Traded volumes in the 65% Fe derivatives contract on the Singapore Exchange, which is settled against Fastmarkets' daily 65% Fe iron ore index, were 2.27 million tonnes in November, the second-highest total since its launch in December 2018. Open interest on Nove...Read More
George Gammon is one of the most articulate YouTubers out there. George believes that the world is insolvent, especially the United States. The US has been paying interest on interest for decades. There's a limitation to how much money can be printed. Inflation has greatly diminished the purchasing power of the dollar and the worst is yet to come.Read More
Ever been curious about how Mike Maloney got his start in the gold industry? As Mike says at the very beginning of his new video with Ronnie Stoeferle of Incrementum, "This is the chart that started my career in precious metals."Listen to Mike tell the story of a chart he gave to Robert Kiyosaki at a conference, which Robert shared with his audience that day. It ultimately led to Mike writing a bo...Read More
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A video out of China shows a man being interrogated by authorities while handcuffed to a metal chair for the crime of criticizing the police onlineContinue...Read More
The 50-year US war on drugs has been a total failure, with hundreds of billions of dollars flushed down the drain and our civil liberties whittled away fighting a war that cannot be won. The 20 year "war on terror" has likewise been a gigantic US government disaster: hundreds of billions wasted, civil liberties scorched, and a world far more dangerous than when this war was launched after 9/11.So...Read More
Two potential trajectories for the U.S. Dollar IndexWhy Brent thinks stocks still have higher to go, even from these lofty levelsChina, trade deal, and currency rate component of the trade dealCanadian Interest RatesGold outlookRead More