The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for rebar, wire rod, steel beams and other long steel products. Latest transactions: rebarRebarUAE (Emirates Steel), domestic, rebar, offered at 2,340 dirhams ($637) per tonne ex-works.UAE (Conares...Read More

A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary GeologistContact@MercenaryGeologist.comJanuary 15, 2018 Price ratios determine relative value of the precious metals and are useful parameters in deciding which metal to buy at any given time. In previous musings, I documented the history of gold and silver prices and gold-silver ratios from the United States' abandonment of the gold standard i...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

By Keith WeinerWe have been discussing the consumption of capital. Last week, for example, we concluded with:"We see people eating more of the seed corn."Morally, socialism is the enslavement of man to man. If you create something, they want not just to take it from you, but to render you unable to create anything else. They declare that the ideal is "from each according to his ability." This is...Read More

Prices for locally produced rebar in the UAE have increased this week while billet import prices in the country narrowed with a new deal, sources have told Metal Bulletin.Demand for imported rebar, meanwhile, was very weak in both countries because local prices were more competitive. Domestic rebar Major local rebar producers in the UAE announced new prices on Tuesday, January 16. The country's bi...Read More

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released the latest CoT report. What can we learn from it about the gold market?Light and Darkness in the Gold MarketThe epic battle between good and evil. The conflict between light and darkness. We and them. This is how some analysts portray the Commitments of Traders report. Commercials, i.e. bullion banks such as JP Morgan, are of course the bad guy...Read More

The key to bubble analysis is to look at what's causing the bubble. If you get the hidden dynamics right, your ability to collect huge profits or avoid losses is greatly improved.Continue...Read More

The 91.57 downside target we were using for the dollar looked promising as a place for a powerful bounce to occur. Instead, sellers crushed it on Friday, putting in play a significantly lower target at 88.29 that I would rate as almost certain to be reached. If so, it would add 2.9% to the Dollar Index's so far 12.4% decline from the 103.82 high recorded a year ago. It would also undoubtedly qui...Read More

2017 was literally the smoothest stretch of highway that US stocks have ever traveled. Rising almost every day and seldom falling hard, they made it virtually Continue...Read More

- JP Morgan continues to accumulate the biggest stockpile of physical silver in history- "JPM now holds more than 133m oz -more than was held by the Hunt Bros" - Butler- Silver hoard owned by JPM has increased from Zero ozs in 2011 to 120m ozs today- Money managers showing more optimism towards silver through record buying- "Near impossible to rule out an upside price surprise at any moment"Edi...Read More

Crude oil is starting out strong in 2018 asboth the international Brent benchmark and the West Texas Intermediate continueto book price gains. The gains in crude oil prices this year is riding thewaves of the uptrend in oil prices that began in 2017. Now, the U.S. West TexasIntermediate is trading up around $63.57 per barrel and the Brent crude istrading up around $69.20 per barrel.  Commodi...Read More

The Turkish scrap import market remained quiet on Tuesday January 16, with limited supplies available, especially from the USA, according to market sources.However, Turkish steel mills were expected to book 18-19 more cargoes for February, with four or five of these expected to be booked for the first half of the month."Turkish steel mills should book 18-19 more cargoes for February, but there are...Read More

Over the weekend, the Cleveland Fed released its media Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for December 2017.The result? The Median CPI rose 0.3% in December, an annualized rate of 3.5%.Put simply, core inflation is rising rapidly... and the Fed is WAY behind the curve.Small wonder the US Dollar is collapsing, breaking through critical resistance.The BIG PICTURE chart is even uglier, suggesting the $U...Read More

Look for signs of profit taking in gold and silver as US markets reopen. Any further rise in gold and silver will be dependent on the ability or inability to break past key resistances of $1358 and $1754. Over the past two years gold has not been able to break $1380. It will not be easy to break $1380 on fears of sharp correction. However in case gold breaks and trades over $1380 anytime before...Read More

Over the weekend, the Cleveland Fed released its media Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for December 2017.The result? The Median CPI rose 0.3% in December, an annualized rate of 3.5%.Put simply, core inflation is rising rapidly... and the Fed is WAY behind the curve.Small wonder the US Dollar is collapsing, breaking through critical resistance.The BIG PICTURE chart is even uglier, suggesting the $U...Read More

– JP Morgan continues to accumulate the biggest stockpile of physical silver in history– “JPM now holds more than 133m oz -more than was held by the Hunt Bros” – Butler– Silver hoard owned by JPM has increased from Zero ozs in 2011 to 120m ozs today– Money managers showing more optimism towards silver through record buying– “Near impossibl...Read More

Gold and related investments are off to a very positive start in 2018. I don't expect any major pause in the action until China's Golden Week holiday celebrations get underway.Chinese gold dealers will be on holiday this year from about February 15 to February 21. This creates a significant vacuum in gold demand. As dealers and Chinese gold markets close, the gold price tends to soften in global m...Read More

UK ferrous scrap prices for monthly deliveries to consumers in January have settled with increases of around ?15-20 per tonne compared with December's settlements, trade sources told Metal Bulletin this week.One main factor in settling January contracts was the steady increase in the scrap import price into Turkey, a key export market for British steel scrap, sources said. Metal Bulletin's daily...Read More

"Just Caucasian or white countries, sir? Or do you want people to come in from other parts of the world... people of color," Acosta asked."Out!"Continue...Read More

CloseGain/LossGold $1339.30+$1.30Silver$17.21-$0.03XAU90.27+1.30%HUI204.39+1.52%GDM682.72+1.92%JSE Gold1316.17-51.24USD90.43-0.52Euro122.65+0.59Yen90.81+0.78Oil$63.73-$0.5710-Year2.543%-0.005T-Bond150.90625+0.53125Dow25792.86-0.04%Nasdaq7223.69-0.51%S&P2776.42-0.35% The Metals: Gold saw modest gains in holiday thinned trade yesterday before it fell back to $1331.80 in London today, but it...Read More