SP Angel Morning View -Today’s Market View, Wednesday 5th February 2025

SP Angel Mining Team in Cape Town for the 121 Mining Investment Conference and Indaba

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SP Angel Mining Team in Cape Town for the 121 Mining Investment Conference and Indaba

  • Simon, Sergey, Arthur and I will be boldly seeking out new opportunities and presenting commodity and company ideas to a full schedule of investors.
  • Ewan, Charlie, Grant and Richard are also available at the 121 and after.
  • We will be travelling to look at opportunities in Zambia and Zimbabwe

Gold market comment (17/01/2025):     Podcast:  https://audioboom.com/posts/8639775-john-meyer-gold-is-good-solid-asset-to-own

Video:  

Dow Jones Industrials +0.30% at 44,556
Nikkei 225 +0.09% at 38,831
HK Hang Seng -0.93% at 20,597
Shanghai Composite -0.65% at 3,229
US 10 Year Yield (bp change) -2.6 at 4.48

Currencies

US$1.0405/eur vs 1.0345/eur previous. Yen 153.01/$ vs 155.14/$. SAr 18.619/$ vs 18.754/$. $1.250/gbp vs $1.243/gbp. 0.628/aud vs 0.621/aud. CNY 7.273/$ vs 7.245/$.

Dollar Index 107.754 vs 108.466 previous.

Precious metals:         

Gold US$2,868/oz vs US$2,816/oz previous

Gold ETFs 83.5moz vs 83.4moz previous

Platinum US$981/oz vs US$966/oz previous

Palladium US$1,006/oz vs US$1,008/oz previous

Silver US$32.4/oz vs US$31.6/oz previous

Rhodium US$4,625/oz vs US$4,650/oz previous

Base metals:   

Copper US$9,153/t vs US$9,131/t previous

Aluminium US$2,615/t vs US$2,620/t previous

Nickel US$15,305/t vs US$15,055/t previous

Zinc US$2,785/t vs US$2,812/t previous

Lead US$1,981/t vs US$1,945/t previous

Tin US$30,590/t vs US$30,110/t previous

Energy:           

Oil US$75.9/bbl vs US$75.0/bbl previous

Natural Gas €52.9/MWh vs €53.2/MWh previous

Uranium Futures $70.7/lb vs $71.1/lb previous

Bulk:   

Iron Ore 62% Fe Spot (Singapore) US$104.6/t vs US$105.5/t

Chinese steel rebar 25mm US$485.7/t vs US$487.6/t

HCC FOB Australia US$190.5/t vs US$190.0/t

Thermal coal swap Australia FOB US$115.5/t vs US$118.3/t

Other:  

Cobalt LME 3m US$21,550/t vs US$21,550/t

NdPr Rare Earth Oxide (China) US$57,060/t vs US$57,284/t

Lithium carbonate 99% (China) US$10,106/t vs US$10,145/t

China Spodumene Li2O 6%min CIF US$815/t vs US$815/t

Ferro-Manganese European Mn78% min US$1,005/t vs US$1,005/t

China Tungsten APT 88.5% FOB US$338/mtu vs US$338/mtu

China Graphite Flake -194 FOB US$430/t vs US$430/t

Europe Vanadium Pentoxide 98% US$4.5/lb vs US$4.5/lb

Europe Ferro-Vanadium 80% US$24.6/kg vs US$24.6/kg

China Ilmenite Concentrate TiO2 US$295/t vs US$296/t

Global Rutile Spot Concentrate 95% TiO2 US$1,588/t vs US$1,588/t

Spot CO2 Emissions EUA Price US$65.1/t vs US$65.1/t

Brazil Potash CFR Granular Spot US$305.0/t vs US$305.0/t

Germanium China 99.99% US$2,725.0/kg vs US$2,725.0/kg

China Gallium 99.99% US$385.0/kg vs US$385.0/kg

Company News

Overnight Change Weekly Change Overnight Change Weekly Change
BHP 1.5% 2.6% Freeport-McMoRan 1.7% 1.8%
Rio Tinto 2.1% 2.5% Vale 0.7% 4.4%
Glencore 0.4% 1.3% Newmont Mining 0.5% 4.8%
Anglo American -0.2% -1.0% Fortescue 2.0% -0.5%
Antofagasta 0.6% 1.0% Teck Resources 2.7% 2.1%

LSE Group Starmine awards for 2024 commodity forecasting:

No.1 in Precious Metals: SP Angel mining team awarded No 1. ranking for Precious Metals forecasting in LSEG Annual Starmine Award for Reuters Polls 2024

No.2 in Base Metals: SP Angel mining team awarded No 2. ranking for Base Metals forecasting in LSEG Annual Starmine Award for Reuters Polls 2024

Analysts

John Meyer – John.Meyer@spangel.co.uk – 0203 470 0490

Simon Beardsmore – Simon.Beardsmore@spangel.co.uk – 0203 470 0484

Sergey Raevskiy –Sergey.Raevskiy@spangel.co.uk – 0203 470 0474

Arthur Parish – Arthur.Parish@spangel.co.uk – 0203 470 0476

Sales

Richard Parlons –Richard.Parlons@spangel.co.uk – 0203 470 0472

Abigail Wayne – Abigail.Wayne@spangel.co.uk – 0203 470 0534

Rob Rees – Rob.Rees@spangel.co.uk – 0203 470 0535

Grant Barker – Grant.Barker@spangel.co.uk – 0203 470 0471

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Sources of commodity prices  
Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Silver BGNL (Bloomberg Generic Composite rate, London)
Gold ETFs, Steel Bloomberg
Copper, Aluminium, Nickel, Zinc, Lead, Tin, Cobalt LME
Oil Brent ICE
Natural Gas, Uranium, Iron Ore NYMEX
Thermal Coal Bloomberg OTC Composite
Coking Coal SSY
RRE Steelhome

Lithium Carbonate, Ferro Vanadium, Tungsten, Spodumene, Ferro-Manganese, Graphite, Rutile Asian Metal

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