Turkish domestic scrap prices have remained largely stable over the past week, because most of the steel producers in the country have kept their purchasing prices unchanged.Metal Bulletin's weekly price assessment for domestic auto bundle scrap (DKP grade) was TRY1,230-1,400 ($324-369) per tonne delivered on Monday February 26, widening slightly from last week's TRY1,260-1,390 per tonne.The sligh...Read More

Forget about normalization, the Fed is terrified.The Fed officially began Quantitative Tightening in October. To date, the Fed has shrunk its balance sheet by less than $40 billion. And already Fed officials are so spooked by stocks falling, that they're promising more QE down the road... including an implicit purchasing of stocks.To whit, on Friday, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren stated the...Read More

Full Article: Silver Could Be On The Cusp Of Major Rally - Mining CEOBy: Neils Christensen(Kitco News) - Lackluster silver prices are not deterring one Canadian silver explorer from implementing its exploration plans because the market could be on the cusp of a significant market rally, according to the company's top executive.In an interview with Kitco News, Greg Johnson, chief executive offic...Read More

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, Feb. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") declares its monthly instituted dividend of 1/6 of a cent per common share for February 2018 payable on March 23, 2018 to shareholders of record as of March 12, 2018. Gold Resource Corporation is a gold and silver producer, developer and explorer with operations in Oaxaca, Me...Read More

Markets were up again big today and volatility was down. But we haven't seen the last of rising volatility, nor of the central banks' attempts to thwart it.Continue...Read More

- Digital gold and crypto gold products claim to combine efficiencies of blockchain with value of gold- They are yet to provide the same benefits or safety as owning physical gold- National mints jumping in on the 'sexy blockchain' act - BOE declares bitcoin 'not a currency;' Royal Mint launches blockchain gold product- Digital gold, blockchain gold and crypto gold is frequently not fully bac...Read More

The following is an excerpt from this week's edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 488. For NFTRH bonds are not just an asset class 'throw-in' but instead are a key indicator set to the entire modern macro. Insofar as it may be time to use them for portfolio balance (I am currently long SHV, SHY, IEI & IEF), so much the better. Many could not wait to buy bonds during US ZIRP global NIRP ope...Read More

Turkish steel producers have continued to book deep-sea scrap, now buying for April, and prices have gone up slightly, sources said on Monday February 26.Market participants believed that the strong finished steel market was supporting the steel mills' scrap purchases."Turkish mills are still showing interest in deep-sea scrap. This is mostly because of the strong finished steel market," a source...Read More

The previous week was quite rich in important events. Silver rallied significantly on Wednesday and mining stocks underperformed significantly on Thursday. Gold declined significantly after moving to the previous high, but without a breakdown to new 2018 lows the situation remains tense, especially that the USD Index is fighting to break above an important support / resistance line. These signal...Read More

By Keith WeinerWe have been promising to get back to the topic of capital destruction, which we put on hiatus for the last several weeks to make our case that the interest rate remains in a falling trend. Today, we have a different way of looking at capital destruction.Socialism is the system of seeking out and destroying capital. Redistribution means taking someone's capital and handing it over...Read More

Continue...Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the author, most recently, of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China and Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalizatio...Read More

Analysts disagree about which indicator is best for calling market tops, but the easiest to understand - and the most tragic - is probably margin debt.This is money borrowed by (usually individual or "retail") investors against their existing stocks to buy more stocks. Investors tend to do this when markets are rising and using leverage seems like an effortless way turbocharge their gains. But eve...Read More

By Dave KranzlerThe pension crisis is inching closer by the day. @CalPERS just voted to increase the amount cities must pay to the agency. Cities point to possible insolvency if payments keep rising but CalPERS is near insolvency itself. It may be reform or bailout soon. - Steve Westly, former California controller and CalPERS board member.1.5 MILLION RETIREES AWAIT CONGRESSIONAL FIX FOR A PENSI...Read More

China's imports of iron ore rebounded to the second highest ever in January while those for coking coal fell to a seven-month low. Exports of scrap surged on the year, while those for coke, which include semi coke, contracted.Read More

For a market analyst there is an irresistible temptation to seek out one or more historical parallels to the current situation. The idea is that clues about what's going to happen in the future can be found by looking at what happened following similar price action in the past. Sometimes this method works, sometimes it doesn't.Assuming that the decline from the January-2018 peak is a short-term co...Read More

By Clint SiegnerBullion investors buy gold and silver as a matter of self-reliance. Physical metals aren't dependent upon the promises of financial institutions, governments, or other third parties.This lack of counterparty risk makes precious metals quite different from most conventional assets. There is no possibility of a default or mismanagement which renders them worthless. That is a lot mo...Read More

The rally into early Monday, February 26, 2018 is no surprise to me. The charts below were written over the weekend suggesting follow through buying into early Monday at or above SPX 2754 and then a sudden fast reversal down below the 2532 area.I've seen this e-wave pattern before following a wxy W Wave where Wave X sees an irregular topping pattern (coming out of a bull flag formation) catching t...Read More

CIS export prices for steel billet products continued to climb in the week ended Monday February 26 with customers accepting the higher prices.In addition, the availability of the material was reduced because some mills were holding back volumes in expectation of another round of price increases after China's return from the week-long lunar new year celebration.Metal Bulletin's weekly export CIS B...Read More

Source: Jack Chan for Streetwise Reports 02/26/2018 Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest movements in the gold and silver markets. -->Our proprietary cycle indicator is down.The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.The gold sector is on a short-term sell signal. Short-term...Read More

Will digital gold provide the benefits of physical gold?- Digital gold and crypto gold products claim to combine efficiencies of blockchain with value of gold- They are yet to provide the same benefits or safety as owning physical gold- National mints jumping in on the 'sexy blockchain' act - BOE declares bitcoin 'not a currency;' Royal Mint launches blockchain gold product- Digital gold, block...Read More