https://www.bloomberg.com/Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is more bullish on commodities than any time since the end of the supercycle in 2008. As economies around the world pick up, factories are humming, eating into stockpiles of raw materials and driving demand at miners and oil producers already facing limits on output.Copper, iron ore and crude prices will extend gains this year, Goldman analysts Je...Read More
Metal Bulletin has launched a weekly Manganese Ore Index 37% Mn, cif Tianjin China $ per dmtu of metal contained. Launched after a consultation period, the new index will complement the two existing manganese ore prices, the 37%Mn fob Port Elizabeth South Africa Manganese ore index and the Manganese Ore Index 44% Mn, cif Tianjin $ per dmtu of metal contained. Strong demand from China's d...Read More
Metal Bulletin has updated its manganese ore indices base specifications to align with market standards. For the manganese ore 37% Mn fob Port Elizabeth index, the alumina base content changes to 0.2% from 1% and the maximum to 2% from 8%. In addition, the silica base content changes to 5.5% from 6%, the phosphorous base content will change to 0.025% from 0.04%, and the maximum iron content w...Read More
There was no clear trend in China's ferrous futures market during morning trading on Friday February 2 after the Hebei provincial government denied that it was planning to extend production cuts for an additional two months.Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange May rebar: 3,947 yuan ($627) per tonne, down 7 yuan per tonne May hot rolled coil: 4,017 yuan per tonne, up 1...Read More
China's domestic stainless steel prices widened upward over the past week on nickel gains in recent days.Metal Bulletin's assessment of prices for benchmark 304 stainless cold-rolled coil in the major market of Wuxi was 14,500-15,500 yuan ($2,303-2,461) per tonne including VAT for the week ended Thursday February 1, widening upward by 300 yuan per tonne from 14,500-15,200 yuan per tonne a week ear...Read More
The following Metal Bulletin non-ferrous European free market scrap prices changed on Friday February 2:Aluminium ingot Duty paid delivered works...Read More
Turkish steel mills resumed their deep-sea scrap purchases late this week after they managed to get slightly lower prices from suppliers in the United States and the UK, sources said on Friday February 2.Three deep-sea cargoes changed hands late on February 1, Metal Bulletin was told.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a US cargo, comprising 20,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $345 per tonne...Read More
The UK inter-merchant price range for austenitic alloy steel scrap rose by ?20-30 per tonne this week with nickel prices remaining strong, sources said on Friday February 2.Metal Bulletin's weekly price assessment for inter-merchant 18/8 scrap solids in the UK was ?950-980 ($1,351-1,394) per tonne delivered on Friday, compared with ?920-960 per tonne on January 26.The London Metal Exchange thre...Read More
"They have allowed bubbles to build that are so huge I cannot even get my head around them, and I study this stuff around-the-clock."Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics,...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More
Posted: Feb 2, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Feb 2, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Feb 2, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Feb 2, 2018: Congo Launches Cobalt Tax GrabDiscovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projects will...Read More
Kaiser Media Watch Blog enables John Kaiser to share online content from other media he deems interesting or relevant to Kaiser Research Online audiences. He collects links to such content and writes a brief explanation. The KMW Blog gets updated during the evening KRO update. After a week or so the current KMW Blog gets archived and a new one is started. Tweets are sent with a link to the item in...Read More
Economic and market conditions are eerily like they were in late 2007/early 2008.Remember back then? Everything was going great. Home prices were soaring. Jobs were plentiful.Continue...Read More
Days ago Gold reached its 5-year trendline resistance but since then it has backedContinue...Read More
Continue...Bill Holter is currently a writer for Miles Franklin and Jim Sinclair's Mineset where he posts weekly commentaries on gold and financial markets. Prior to joining Miles Franklin in 2012, Bill Holter Worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 years as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. Later, he left Wall Street to avoid potential liabilities related to management of paper...Read More
"For the moment, I don't see signs of an economy going into overdrive or a bubble about to burst, so I have not adjusted my views of appropriate monetary policy," Continue...Read More
Feb 05, 2018 Guest(s): Doug Casey Best-selling Author Major structural problems in the U.S. economy and around the world may create headwinds for the stock markets, said best-selling author, Doug Casey."One big problem is the central bank," Casey told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, "they keep creating trillions and trillions of new currency units."Ca...Read More
Posted: Feb 2, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Feb 2, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Feb 2, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Feb 2, 2018: Congo Launches Cobalt Tax GrabDiscovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projects will...Read More
Kaiser Media Watch Blog enables John Kaiser to share online content from other media he deems interesting or relevant to Kaiser Research Online audiences. He collects links to such content and writes a brief explanation. The KMW Blog gets updated during the evening KRO update. After a week or so the current KMW Blog gets archived and a new one is started. Tweets are sent with a link to the item in...Read More
*This interview was recorded on Feb. 2Jim Rickards is a lawyer, investment banker and economist with over thirty years' experience in capital markets. He is currently Chief Global Strategist at Meraglim. He advises the Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, and major hedge funds on global finance, and served as a facilitator of the first ever financial war games conducted by the P...Read More