Latin American steel association Alacero has appointed M??ximo Vedoya as its new president on Wednesday November 7.Vedoya, who is the chief executive officer of Latin American steel group Ternium, will lead the association...Read More
Prices for steel billet showed mixed trends in the various global trading regions in the week ended Friday November 9, increasing in the CIS, Turkey and Egypt, while falling in Iran and China.The current high level of scrap prices in Turkey led to higher procurement of billet and improved sentiment among steelmakers in the Commonwealth of Independent States.Fastmarkets' daily index for Northern Eu...Read More
London Metal Exchange members are considering a multitude of ways to continue to service their EU clients in the event that a financial services deal is either not forthcoming or does not go far enough when the UK finally leaves the European Union. Some companies have even told their LME sales teams they need to be prepared to move to another major European city to be able to legally service their...Read More
If Brexit - the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union on March 29, 2019 - isn't on your radar, it should be. With the annual London Metal Exchange Week now in full swing, the exchange, its members and their customers need to have contingency plans in place if they are expecting to be affected in any way by Brexit. And as with anything political, an element of brinkmanship will na...Read More
When the London Metal Exchange finished its 12-step warehouse reform package, it proved once more that you cannot please all of the people all of the time. It faced some inevitable criticism of the rules, in particular that the LME went too far in certain areas and should consider tweaking or rolling back some of its reforms. In particular, the focus of attention was on the load-in, load-out (LILO...Read More
Investing.com - Oil traders are likely to stay fixated on rising global crude supplies in the week ahead, after prices suffered their fifth straight weekly loss and plunged into bear market territory.Global oil prices are down by around 20% since early October, buffeted by signs of growing output from key producers, mainly the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia, and indications of a global economic slo...Read More
Investing.com - This week precious metals traders will be focusing on U.S. inflation data after the Federal Reserve indicated that it is on track to hike interest rates again in December and early next year.Wednesday’s inflation data is expected to show that U.S. consumer prices rose in October. Investors will get another update on the health of consumers from Thursday’s retail sales n...Read More
* Falling oil prices stock growth worries* Industrial, material shares suffer on China growth worries* U.S. producer prices rise more than expected in October* Tobacco shares fall on e-cigarette restriction worries* Indexes down: Dow 0.77 pct, S&P 500 0.92 pct, Nasdaq 1.65 pct (Updates to close, adds commentary)By Sinéad CarewNEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Wall Street's three major stock i...Read More
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The steel scrap sector in the United States still depends on exports to Turkey, a member of the Fastmarkets research team said during the ferrous session at the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) conference in London.This dependence persists despite the changes in the international markets created by the US' imposition of its Section 232 tariffs on imports of steel products, metals analyst Le...Read More
As the ferro-alloys community prepares to gather in Lisbon for a busy few days of meetings and contract negotiations, Fastmarkets outlines some of the key topics likely to dominate discussions at this year's International Ferro-alloys Conference, on November 11-13.Is the ferro-vanadium mating season nearing completion?What promises to be a busy few days in Lisbon for purveyors of ferro-alloys may...Read More
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Crude oil is perhaps the most manipulated market on the planet.Would that surprise you?Would that surprise anyone? I'm willing to bet if you asked 100 people if the price of oil is manipulated, you'd get 100 affirmative responses.What's most unfortunate here is the fact that even though everyone knows oil prices are manipulated, individuals are mostly powerless to do anything about it.The SEC defi...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1201.50-$8.40Silver$14.01-$0.16XAU62.65-2.36%HUI140.33-2.15%GDM519.17-2.03%JSE Gold1096.10-2.01USD97.59+0.69Euro112.21-1.18Yen87.97-0.06Oil$59.93-$0.2610-Year3.184%-0.006T-Bond138.53125+0.625Dow25387.18-2.32%Nasdaq7200.87-2.78%S&P2726.22-1.97% The Metals: Gold fell $5.90 to $1204.00 in Asia before it rebounded in London, but it then fell to a new sessi...Read More
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By Ed Steer10 November 2018 -- SaturdayYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUMThe gold price was sold quietly lower until around noon China Standard Time on their Friday. It crawled quietly higher from there until a few minutes after the London open -- and then it crawled equally quietly lower until the COMEX open. Then the spoofing and algo spinning began -- and the low tick of th...Read More
By Clint SiegnerGold and silver investors got a rare bit of good news on the enforcement front last week.A trader from JPMorgan Chase pled guilty to rigging the precious metals futures markets.John Edmonds admitted to cheating the bank's clients and plenty of other people naive enough to expect fair treatment on the COMEX and other exchanges.While this is by no means the first time a banker has...Read More
By Frank HolmesStrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, down 0.17 percent as hedge funds boosted their net bullish position to an eight-month high. October was a stellar month for gold after several months of losses. Holdings in gold-backed ETFs rose globally by 16.5 tonnes as the yellow metal benefitted from flight-to-safety investment flows tracking global stock markets, wri...Read More
Here are two long-term charts illustrating the annual rate at which gold is extracted from the ground. The second of these charts shows why mine production can be ignored when trying to understand what happened to the gold price over the preceding few years or figure out what's likely to happen to the gold price over the next few years.The first chart shows the amount of gold produced by the glo...Read More
By Alasdair MacleodWe are getting ahead of ourselves here. Gold does not circulate as money - yet. It might never do so. Perhaps the end of government currency, fiat money imposed on us by government laws, may never be replaced by what for millennia has been the people's money, gold. Do we even wish it? Given what we have to do to get there, probably not.It is hard to think of a life without Nan...Read More