Frik Els
Frik has 20 years’ experience as a business journalist across a range of industries including automotive, technology and entertainment markets. Frik has an entry in Global Mining Observer’s Who’s Who of Mining 2018, and contributions to publications and conferences including Business Insider, Investing.com, Mines & Money London and New York, Vancouver Resources Investment, Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto and Canadian Mining Symposium in London, UK. He’s been interviewed on CBC Radio and Korea State TV and quoted in the Financial Post.
Posts by Frik Els:
Gold price surges by most in history
US Fed promised to pump "unlimited" amounts of money into the financial system, boosting the metal’s status as a store of wealth and inflation hedge.
CHART: 40-year cost curve shows copper price rout likely over
New report shows of all commodities, the 90th percentile of the cost curve has worked as a support level best in copper.
Copper price surges over 10% after touching 2009 lows
Copper dropped overnight to below $2 a pound only to rally 11.6% in New York trade Thursday.
Copper price meltdown sinks mining stocks
Copper price plunge accelerates – down nearly 9% Wednesday – as producers announce production and construction halts.
Gold price rebounds – biggest rally since June 2016
After steep losses "gold is starting to act like how it should act” amid massive monetary and fiscal stimulus in response to the pandemic.
Copper price sinks as China faces first GDP drop since 1976
Copper drops to lowest since 2016 after post-outbreak economic data show China industrial production, fixed asset investment shrink by most on record.
Gold price coronavirus losses top $250 an ounce
Gold price drops 4% to as low as $1,450 an ounce Monday, down from a high above $1,700 just a week ago.
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Iron ore price resilience likely won’t last – report
So far this year Chinese import prices have averaged more than $90 a tonne.