Turkish prices for hot-dipped galvanized coil (HDG), and color-coated coil or pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI), increased in the week to Friday December 6, and most producers stopped accepting new orders because they are planning to raise prices further, sources told Fastmarkets.Steel prices have increased due to higher raw materials and hot-rolled coil prices, they added.Fastmarkets' daily inde...Read More
Brazil's domestic rebar price was unchanged in December while market participants braced for an upcoming hike in January amid higher demand.Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel reinforcing bar (rebar) domestic monthly, delivered Brazil at 2,220-2,320 Reais ($528-552) per tonne on Friday December 6, unchanged from the previous month but up by 1.7% from 2,165-2,300 Reais per...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices continued dropping on Friday December 6 as mills maintained high levels of production over the week. Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,870-3,900 yuan ($549-554) per tonne, down 70 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,630-3,670 yuan per tonne, down 40 yuan per tonneRebar output at major Chinese mills totaled 3.63 million tonnes over the week ended Thursday, up 70,0...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 346,52555,82093,891203,920526,707644,336676,418 Change from Prior Reporting Period 21,2392,16836912,37229,69233,98032,229 Traders 20552745053280158 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 56,68024,598701,016 -2,232-48131,748 non reportable positionsChang...Read More
Gold has been correcting following last summer's powerful bull-breakout upleg. Since peaking, gold has inexorably drifted lower in a well-defined downtrend. Traders are wondering when this necessary and healthy sentiment-rebalancing selloff will bottom, paving the way for gold's next upleg. But this correction still has a ways to run, according to speculators' gold-futures positioning wh...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAA few weeks ago we noted the bullish setup for 2020.Macro developments, one way or another will tend to favor Gold. There isn't a realistic scenario that isn't Gold bullish.Note the comments from various Fed-heads last week. They are laying the groundwork to target higher than 2% inflation and won't consider raising rates anytime soon.And if they have to resume cutting...Read More
Latest transaction: rebarRebar East China, domestic, grade...Read More
- Gary SavageGold market update: Signs of a similar H1-2019 pattern? Similar pattern emerging to earlier this year with gold now reversing higher with higher lows and higher highs -- we are starting to stair-step up. Banks going to get stuck in another short squeeze? All the poor saps who sold out at the intermediate bottom..December 5th video update.Gary Savagehttp://blog.smartmoney...Read More
Gary TanashianWe all know that the gold and silver Commitments of Traders are very extended and at levels of commercial net shorts and large spec net longs that tend to be in place at tops in the metals. Well, the metals topped in the summer, so what does that tell us?For one thing it tells us that bull market rules are different from bear market rules as per this post from August as gold was to...Read More
Originally published on Sat Nov 30 for members of ElliottWaveTrader.net: I want to take you back a bit in time so you can develop the appropriate perspective of a bottoming process in the metals market. - Avi GilburtFor those of you that were with us back towards the end of 2015, you may remember that I was being quite vocal of the fact that I was heavily buying mining stocks. In fact,...Read More
After today's US November nonfarm payrolls, traders will take positions for next week's FOMC meet. NFP will give hint on next week's FOMC meet. Look into US economy and global economy in totality and not just from interest rate perspective. UK election and December 15 deadline for US-China trade deal will also be under close scrutiny by traders and investors alike. US president Trump and his imp...Read More
Global scrap prices in most major markets moved upward during the week ended Friday December 6, due to good demand and a shortage of material in some locations. Prices jump in Turkey on newest tradesUS market activity picks up at higher pricesIndian price move up on material shortagePrices continue to move up in VietnamTaiwan maintains strong demand and solid pricesTurkeyTurkish steel mills booked...Read More
Are ultra-low interest rates putting monetary "beer goggles" on financial markets? Danielle DiMartino Booth of Quill Intelligence sits down with Peter Boockvar, CIO of Bleakley Advisory Group, to discuss the systemic risks to the global financial system. They deconstruct the growing challenges facing central banks. Boockvar examines the explosion of collateralized-loan-obligations (CLOs), predicts...Read More
Eric Sprott discusses the latest developments in the gold and silver markets. He also addresses some of the recent merger and acquisition news in the mining sector.Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 200...Read More
The price of austenitic alloy steel scrap fell this week after further losses in the nickel market, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday December 6. Fastmarkets' price assessment for stainless steel scrap 18/8 solids, domestic, delivered merchants UK, ?720-780 ($946-1,025) per tonne on Friday, down ?,?20-30 per tonne week on...Read More
Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor and representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management. His articles about the the economy and investing online can be found at Mish Talk. Read More
Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," as well as a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as an attorney until 1997 when she was recruited to work for an intern...Read More
Former Minnesota governor and host of "the World According to Jesse," Gov. Jesse Ventura joins Rick Sanchez to react to the recently concluded NATO summit in London, UK and weigh in on the true purpose of NATO and the power of the war lobby in Washington. Jesse Ventura, is an American politician, actor, author, Navy Seal, and former professional wrestler who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesot...Read More
"You know, Saudi Arabia - we moved more troops there. And they're paying us billions of dollars. Okay? You never heard of that before. You've never heard of that in your whole life," Continue...Read More
The price of ferrous scrap imported into India moved up again this week ahead of a seasonal slowdown for the European holiday season, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday December 6.Fastmarkets' steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva was $286.46 per tonne on Friday, up from $282.56 per tonne one week previous.One deal was heard for shredded material into India at $291 per tonne this w...Read More