Crude oil near $71 amid Middle East tensions

U.S. May Become World’s Top Oil Exporter Next Year ; Citigroup Says

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – U.S. May Become World’s Top Oil Exporter Next Year ; Citi Says  — The U.S. looks likely to overtake Saudi Arabia to become the world’s biggest oil exporter next year, according to Citigroup Inc. With American production surging to unprecedented levels as OPEC continues curbing output, the U.S. is on course to be the top exporter of crude and oil products in 2019, Citigroup said in an April 25 note.

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Zinc Prices Under Pressure; HKEX appoints Cha as Chairman; Vale’s Base Metals earnings grow 45.7% in Q1

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has appointed local businesswoman and politician Laura Cha as its new chairman of the board, the exchange announced on Thursday. Vale’s base metals business posted a 45.7% increase in its core earnings in the first quarter of 2018 from a year earlier, helped primarily by the higher realized nickel prices during the period, the Brazilian diversified miner said on Wednesday.

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Macron Says He Thinks Trump Will Pull Out of Iran Nuclear Deal

Gold Silver Reports – Macron Says He Thinks Trump Will Pull Out of Iran Nuclear Deal — “My view — I don’t know what your president will decide — is that he will get rid of this deal on his own for domestic reasons.” Macron told journalists Wednesday in Washington, adding that he encouraged the American president to stay in the accord during his three-day visit to the U.S. capital.                            

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OIL REPORT — 1-U.S. Shale Oil Output to Hit Record High 7.9 Mln Bpd in Dec -EIA

Crude Oil Down as Trump, France’s Macron Talk Iran Deal

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Crude Oil Down as Trump, France’s Macron Talk Iran Deal — U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to seek stronger measures to contain Iran. At a joint news conference, Trump did not repeat threats to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear agreement but made clear he has little patience for it.                             

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Trump Slams OPEC for Inflating Prices, Crude Oil Erases Gains

Trump Slams OPEC for Inflating Prices, Crude Oil Erases Gains -Crude Oil fell in New York after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized OPEC and said crude prices are “artificially Very High.” Looks like OPEC is at it again. With record amounts of Oil all over the place, including the fully …

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Base Metal Prices Today

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.          

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