Indonesian ferrous scrap buyers are still cautious about purchasing imported cargoes even after state-owned surveyor KSO Sucofindo resumed inspections this week."Some traders are rushing to buy cargoes to supply Indonesian customers again but not all buyers are in the market yet," an industry source in Singapore told Fastmarkets on Tuesday December 17.Negotiations for containerized ferrous scrap i...Read More
Prices for steel billet imported to the United Arab Emirates have increased slightly over the past week amid strong demand, market sources said on Tuesday December 17.Market participants in the UAE expect prices to increase further due to the global rise in production costs and low stock levels in the country.Local rebar producers will announce new prices around December 20 and expectations are fo...Read More
After years of lopsided influences impacting the COMEX price of gold and silver, recent data may signal that the tables are turning at long last. Legendary Silver analyst Ted Butler returns to Finance and Liberty and Reluctant Preppers to share surprising insights from his latest research and why we need to be positioned now for what comes next. Theodore Butler is an independent silver analyst who...Read More
Did you know that holdings in gold ETFs have been spiking?This chart kicks off video #7 with Mike Maloney of GoldSilver and Ronnie Stoeferle of the In Gold We Trust report... it shows the renewed interest in gold from investors around the world. You can see that the light blue area, which represents European ETFs, has expanded the most.To Ronnie the jump in ETF holdings means gold is on its way to...Read More
Risks that were overhanging the market are all coming to pass. Brexit gets reaffirmed. Trade deal with China. Getting rid of some tarrifs. The Fed came out and announced stready as she goes, no rate hikes or cuts down the pike. Or at least until so-called inflation passes two percent, which it never will because the real rate of inflation is way higher than the stated rate.John Rubino is the found...Read More
REPO Madness is beginning to make the 2008 financial crisis look like a walk in the park. The FED is backstopping the panic for liquidity in the overnight REPO market with more than $1 Trillion, the panic money printing is happening NOW. Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne is quite optimistic about miner's stocks performance for the coming year. The GDXJ and other indicators are pointing positive even in the face of stagnant gold and silver prices. The silver miners are doing even better. And it appears that while prices could go lower, they're in a trading that could see major advances end of Q4 to middle of Q1. While past is not always prologue, t...Read More
The U.S. stock market continues to add to its gains; the Dow Jones is up another 100 points today - a new record high: 28,235.89. We were up better than 200 points at one point in the day, but all the indexes are hitting new 52-week, or record highs. Basically, we continue to bask in the light of the U.S. China Trade Deal that on Friday, we finally got news that the rumors of a trade deal were act...Read More
Lee goes over the highlights of Project Censored's list of the top 25 censored stories from 2019.Read More
Such dangerous hypocrisy must be fully exposed, so that the potential for peace which exists is not sabotaged by the lunatics issuing the marching orders to Pelosi and her gang.Continue...Read More
The global fixed income market has reached such a manic state that junk bond yields now trade at a much lower rate than where investment-grade debt once stood. Investment-grade corporate debt yields were closeContinue...Read More
Herbert Stein, a prominent economist and adviser to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, once remarked, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." The fact that his remark is obvious makes it no less Continue...Read More
This summer I was in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, along with a host of monetary elites, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that established the post-WWII international Continue...Read More
"...I'm being incredibly flippant but for a very good reason... there is no logic to [buying risk assets like equities] other than to chase the gilded lily... it's nuts!"Continue...Read More
"Because Nancy's teeth were falling out of her mouth, and she didn't have time to think!"Continue...Read More
Continue...Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Before joining PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at...Read More
Gold prices may have bottomed, and it's only a matter of time before the next leg-up in prices take effect, this according to Gary Wagner, editor of TheGoldForecast.com. "This is an extremely, extremely good year for the price of gold," Wagner told Kitco News. "That being said, I believe right now we have been forming a base, roughly around $1,450."Read More
David looks back at the last rally for gold and discusses how the $300 move became overbought from a technical perspective. That rally has only corrected by a third, which is a good sign of a bull market. He expects that there will be a lower low soon, and then we should be off to higher highs. Almost everything is overvalued today except earnings, which have been flat since 2014. The economy is u...Read More
Prices in the CIS export slab market rose above $400 per tonne fob Black Sea on Monday December 16, as customers from some destinations accepted higher offers on a sharp increase in finished flat steel prices.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel slab, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was $400-405 per tonne on Monday December 16, up from $385-395 per tonne a week earlier.A cargo of Ukrainan sl...Read More
Import prices for steel slab in Southeast Asia and East Asia were stable during the past week, as suppliers' attempts to achieve higher prices failed despite the recovery in downstream hot-rolled coil prices.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel slab imports, cfr Southeast Asia and East Asia, was $395-410 per tonne on Monday December 16, unchanged from a week earlier."Despite the recent u...Read More