China changing steel market
In 2003, world crude steel production reached a record high of 962 million tons. This year, the billion-ton production level will be eclipsed.
In 2003, world crude steel production reached a record high of 962 million tons. This year, the billion-ton production level will be eclipsed.
With the Denton-Rawhide gold-silver mine slated for closure next year,
It was good news for the gold industry that the European Central Bank and its member central banks, plus the Swiss and Swedish central banks, renewed the Central Bank Gold Agreement. It wasn’t, however, an enormous surprise.
A generally poor report period for U.S. equity markets didn’t extend to the mining stocks, which were mostly higher over the five trading days March 17-23 as the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 index both fell slightly more than 1%.
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CANADIAN/U.S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate)…