Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Aluminum Stash Visible From Space Turned to Gold for Trader — Castleton has started selling down its aluminum stash, which at its peak held about 500,000 metric tons of the metal, according to people familiar with the matter. That would be worth about $1.5 billion at today’s prices.
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Braking News; Base Metals Drift Lower on LME; Novelis No Longer Purchasing Aluminium from Rusal; China to ban Category 7 Copper Scrap Imports by Year End
The latest Base Metals news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday April 20.
Base metal prices on the London Metal Exchange were lower at the close of trading on Thursday April-19-2018 despite aluminium volumes reaching a recordHigh of 41,000 lots. Read more in our live futures report.
Gold Silver Prices Up on Firm Global Cues, Silver Kiss High Rs 41000
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Gold Silver Prices Up on Firm Global Cues, Silver Kiss High Rs 41000 — Traders said, apart from a firm trend overseas, brisk buying by local jewellers to meet wedding season demand in the domestic spot market kept gold prices higher. Besides, a depreciated rupee against the dollar made imports of the metal costlier, thus fuelling the uptrend, experts said.
Crude Oil Rises Amid Shrinking U.S. Surplus as OPEC Prepares to Gather
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Crude Oil Rises Amid Shrinking U.S. Surplus as OPEC Prepares to Gather – Futures in New York briefly surged almost 3 percent on Wednesday to the highest since 2014. An Energy Information Administration report showed shrinking American petroleum surpluses and the first crude withdrawal from the largest U.S. storage complex in six weeks. The U.S. draw-downs underlined optimism that an OPEC-led effort to curb global supplies will be reinforced later this week when the cartel and allied producers gather in Saudi Arabia.
Canada Oil Recovery Faces Threat From Potential Rail Strike
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Canada Oil Recovery Faces Threat From Potential Rail Strike — On Tuesday, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers each gave Canadian Pacific a 72-hour strike notice informing the company of their plans to strike at 12:01 a.m. eastern time on April 21.
Metals Gripped by Turmoil as Rusal’s Sanctions Fallout Spreads
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Metals Gripped by Turmoil as Rusal’s Sanctions Fallout Spreads — Consumers, manufacturers and traders are scrambling to secure supply cut off by Rusal, the largest aluminum producer outside China. Aluminum reached a six-year high and nickel jumped the most since 2009. Alumina, a raw material needed to make aluminum, notched a fresh record.
OPEC Russia Talks Set to Keep Oil Cuts Even as Glut Vanishes
Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – OPEC Russia Talks Set to Keep Oil Cuts Even as Glut Vanishes – Almost 16 months of output curbs by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners have seen crude rally to a three-year high near $70 a barrel. That’s replenishing their coffers after the worst oil slump in a generation, encouraging the producers to extend their intervention even as Venezuela’s petro-economy implodes and Donald Trump threatens Iran with sanctions.