Flat steel import prices in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia continued to increase this week, with demand being slightly better in the UAE, Metal Bulletin heard on Tuesday February 6.UAEHot-rolled coil (HRC) was being offered at $640-650 per tonne cfr from China, although buyers were bidding only $610-620 per tonne cfr.India offered the product at $650 per tonne cfr, with one buyer biddin...Read More

By Frank HolmesMonday's monster stock selloff is exhibit A for why I frequently recommend a 10 percent weighting in gold, with 5 percent in bullion and jewelry, the other 5 percent in high-quality gold stocks, mutual funds and ETFs.What began on Friday after the positive wage growth report extended into Monday, with all major averages dipping into negative territory for the year. The Dow Jones I...Read More

Watch this video: https://youtu.be/98eDtY6BqB4 Mike Maloney gives an update on the recent market volitility.Michael Maloney is a precious metals investment expert and historian. He is the founder and owner of GoldSilver.com, a global leader in gold and silver sales/storage and one of the world's most highly regarded investment education companies. He is author of the highest selling precious metal...Read More

Russian flat-steel producers keep offers for February-rolled material high despite low demand due to a possible price reduction for March-rolled products.Metal Bulletin's price assessment for Russian 4mm hot-rolled (HR) steel sheet increased to 42,500-43,000 roubles ($748-757) per tonne cpt Moscow, including value-added tax, on February 5 from 41,700-42,500 roubles per tonne cpt Moscow a week earl...Read More

By Ira EpsteinMetals lose "safe haven" bids as stock indices recover.https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More

Carl Icahn is an American business magnate, investor, activist shareholder, and philanthropist. He is the founder and majority shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a diversified conglomerate holding company based in New York City.Read More

Vancouver, BC - February 6, 2018: Bonterra Resources Inc. (TSX-V: BTR, US: BONXF, FSE: 9BR1) (the "Company" or "Bonterra") is pleased to announce that the ongoing resource development program at the Gladiator Gold Deposit has extended the North, Footwall and Main Zones by 200 m down plunge to the east. High-grade intersections identified in step-out drilling east of the known mineralization de...Read More

We have seen the initial stage of a bull market in gold and other hard asset commodities which beginning in 2015 has already carried some small to mid cap gold stocks up 800% and more. But the majority of mining and exploration stocks have languished. Yet at the same time experienced shrewd investors have been accumulating the mining shares. The price weakness has offered patient value oriente...Read More

Trading activity was thin in both the domestic and export markets for Chinese hot-rolled coil on Tuesday February 6 with more and more participants in China making an early start to their Lunar New Year holiday, which kept prices largely steady.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,110-4,130 yuan ($653-656) per tonne, narrowed downward by 10 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 4,000-4,030 yuan p...Read More

By Dave KranzlerYesterday was amusing. The meat with mouths on the so-called financial networks were crying, "how could this have happened." Funny thing, that. They don't raise the slightest doubt of conviction when the Dow soars 2,676 points in less than two months - 23,940 on November 29th to 26,616 on January 26th. But when the market takes back that move in 6 trading days it's a...Read More

Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. The appointment of Jerome Powell as new Fed chair is likely the catalyst that ushers in a multi-decade era of rising inflation and soaring gold stocks.2. I've announced a long term target for GDX of $15,000. That really isn't very high... given the strong inflation numbers that I am projecting for America in the years ahead.3. Having s...Read More

By Graham Summers The markets just changed. Few understand what happened to the financial system after 2008. What happened was that the debt based financial system began to implode as debt deflation took hold. The scary thing is that it wasn't even a large amount of debt deflation. Remember the 2008 Crisis? That time when everyone thought the world was literally going to end? It's that small...Read More

Prices for steel rebar and ferrous scrap are likely to get continued supported from the weakness of the United States dollar and healthy demand in the coming few months, the International Rebar Producers & Exporters Association (Irepas) said this week.The US dollar has depreciated by 6.31% against the euro and by 5.65% against sterling since the beginning of the year, according to exchange rate si...Read More

On Janet Yellen's last day as Fed boss the markets suffered their worst percentage loss in 20-months. Yesterday, on Jerome Powell's first day as Fed Chairman, the VIX spiked by its largest amount on record and the Dow suffered its largest single day point drop ever (and 100th worst percentage drop in history). Intent on showering us with some logic as prices rain lower, the media tells us th...Read More

The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for rebar, wire rod, steel beams and other long steel products. Latest transactions: rebarRebarTurkey, export, rebar, offered at $545-550 per tonne cfr, theoretical weight,...Read More

- Gold gains 0.6% in USD and surges 1.7% in euros and pounds- European stocks fall more than 3% at the open after sharp falls in Asia- DJIA falls 1,175 points, S&P 500 down 4.1% and Nikkei plummets 4.7%- Gold rises from $1,330 to $1,342, ?942 to ?960 and EUR1,067 to EUR1,085 /oz- Bitcoin crashes another 10% and has now plummeted by 70% to below $6,000- Increased risk aversion will drive safe hav...Read More

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"I would say that particularly for women, you're absolutely right, they will bear the brunt of looking for the food, looking for the firewood, looking for the place to migrateContinue...Read More

In the next downturn (which may have started last week, yee-haw), the world's central banks will face a bit of poetic justice: To keep their previous policy mistakes from blowing up the world in 2008, they cut interest rates to historically - some would say unnaturally low levels, which doesn't leave the usual amount of room for further cuts.Now they're faced with an even bigger threat but are...Read More

At the end of last week, gold encountered a couple of headwinds. Will they topple the yellow metal?First Gust of Wind: FedAs we predicted, the last FOMC meeting turned out to be more hawkish than expected. On January 30, we wrote:(…) the Fed has its own meeting this week. We could see a hawkish strike, especially that it will be the last Yellen’s meeting and she has nothing to lose. T...Read More