What you need to know: • The metals and mining market showed a fourth straight month of strong gains in April on the back of the escalating trade tensions. • In April, gold was up 5.6%, silver was down 4.2%, and copper was down 9.6%. The equities outperformed the commodities, with the GDX up 6.5%, GDXJ up 7.3%, and SIL up 3.3%. • Financings remained largely elevated during April, highlighting the institutional capital that has flowed into the mining sector recently. • M&A started to pick up agai...
What you need to know: • Rio2 provided an update on the construction progress at the Fenix Gold Project near Copiapó, Chile. As of the end of Q1, construction is 19% complete and remains on track and on budget for first gold in Q1/26. • As a reminder, The Fenix Gold Project is the largest fully permitted and financed gold heap leach project in the Americas. The management team comes from Rio Alto, which was highly successful prior to its merger with Taho Resources in a C$1.3B transaction. • We...
New All-Time Highs Validates Our Bullish Outlook We continue to view the latest pullback to the 100-day MA on the S&P 500 as healthy and normal within the ongoing bull market, and our bullish outlook (since early-November 2023) remains intact. Throughout the last week of April, we discussed the possibility that further downside was limited (4/23/24 Compass) and the mounting evidence that led us to believe the lows were likely in for this pullback (4/30/24 Compass). Market dynamics remain health...
‘Sell in May and go away’. Is there a fundamental basis for this old trade expression in Commodity World? We think so, at least for China’s 1Bnt/yr steel & iron ore trades. For many years now, we’ve been flagging China-related upside risk in steel/ore trade flows and prices, in the early months of every calendar. It’s that country’s post-northern winter competitive restock, to secure its 80%-share of seaborne ore supply. This seasonal kick almost always reports across China’s trade/conversion/de...
The Restocking Indicator is having a bearish year. The signal has reported a SELL, or very close to it, since late January. This month saw the sharpest new orders contraction since last July. Mills remain firmly in destock mode; China’s reopening trade continues to disappoint; confidence in real estate is weak. We still expect market signals to define floors in H2, with upside risk building later in the year – most likely on 2024’s industrial restock.
Has a new Cold War begun? Based solely on the evolving commodity supply strategies of major economic powers, we think so. Key players of the last Cold War – the US, EU & Japan – have already identified commodities which they regard as ‘critical’ inputs for stable economic growth. Now, they’re moving to secure the supply chains of these inputs, mainly by activating old trade alliances. Here, we explain the catalyst for policy change + offer one definition for ‘critical’ + flag S/D/price risks for...
What are global commodity markets worth? About US$6.5tn – Metals, Steels and Energy. While this figure’s down a massive 20%YoY, it’s still the 3rd-highest on record. Why did it fall? Dominant driver’s the passing of 2022’s war-prompted inflation, partly a response to a US Fed-led rate hikes. Curiously, commodity supply/demand/trade shifts over the past year have been quite modest, with most markets expanding in-line with broader economic growth, while shouldering extreme price trend-shifts and v...
In response to the economic disruption triggered by the global pandemic, many governments have incorporated a pivot to the green economy in their economic stimulus and tax relief response plans. As part of the economic recovery, DBRS Morningstar notes that global mining companies have increasingly embraced Canada as a preferred jurisdiction for investing in new technologies necessary to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets. The main focus for most mining companies has been inv...
This past year, copper’s global mining industry reported a spike in war-/energy-related costs, asset closures, project delays, geo-political constraints – across all key sources of exported metal/concentrates – particularly Chile + Peru + Panama. Popular investor requests right now? Data on size/scale of copper’s industry + state of trade flows + our forecast refined supply/demand/prices. Most are just trying to get some perspective on frequent media/industry reports on mine failures/closures. H...
We expect the Australian equity market to deliver low-mid single digit returns next year. Our Dynamic Asset Allocation preference is a mild overweight to Growth assets, given the relative attractiveness of equities to both bonds and credit. In Fixed Income we prefer Global markets over Australia even though the RBA has probably more work to do. In the ASX, the Risk: Reward skew is tilted more positive for Resources than Banks, particularly in H1 as the global economy shows signs of recover...
Solid Earnings Momentum Hits a Brick Wall. Downgrades following Reporting Front Running Reporting Downgrades for stocks not reporting Cost management Rather than Revenue Growth Driving Earnings Capex for Offence and Defence Holding Steady with our View.
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