With descriptors like “enormous growth” and “tremendous impact”, Sprott Asset Management’s chief executive officer sounds like he’s talking about the Incredible Hulk when describing his massive bet on uranium in 2021. The Toronto-based firm’s Physical Uranium Trust (U-UN.TO), the only publicly-listed fund in North America that invests in physical uranium, has grown its assets from …
TORONTO, Nov. 23, 2021– Sprott Asset Management LP (“Sprott Asset Management”), on behalf of the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (TSX: U.UN) (TSX: U.U) (the “Trust” or “SPUT”), a closed-ended trust created to invest and hold substantially all of its assets in physical uranium, today announced that the Trust has filed and obtained a receipt from …
The establishment of the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust has created quite a stir. Sprott’s extensive buying has created an unprecedented excitement and demand, leading to the highest prices we’ve seen in a long time. But what effect has this catalyst had on the strategies of major uranium industry players? Especially considering that the changing market …
Will we see a similar price run to the early 2000s? Uranium, the commodity that provides us with nuclear fuel used to generate electricity in nuclear power stations, has surged to price levels last seen in 2015. Many are saying that the current market dynamics have created a uranium squeeze that could propel the commodity …
JSC National Atomic Company “Kazatomprom” (“Kazatomprom” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has passed a resolution to participate in a physical uranium fund, ANU Energy OEIC Ltd. (“ANU Energy” or “the Fund”), established on the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC). The Fund will hold physical uranium as a long-term …
This year nuclear fuel has risen in price to its highest level since 2012 After years of stagnant prices, a 37 per cent rally in prices for nuclear fuel uranium has helped attract investors back to the sector. Funds such as Ben Melkman’s New York-based Light Sky Macro, Anchorage Capital and Tribeca Investment Partners have …
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Uranium had been sitting at historic lows for most of the last decade, but as demand and sentiment surrounding uranium turned around slowly, prices have begun to turn around. Prices have risen by 40% in the month of September alone, overtaking all other major commodities. A few weeks ago, millions of pounds of supplies were …
After languishing at historical lows for the better part of the last decade, uranium suddenly came back from the dead. Prices have surged about 40% just in September, outpacing all other major commodities. In just a few weeks, millions of pounds of supply was scooped up by the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust. It’s a massive bet on …
Top uranium miner Kazatomprom said it may supply the metal to Sprott, the investment firm whose aggressive bets on the market have helped drive a surge in prices. “We already started talks with Sprott,” Askar Batyrbayev, chief commercial officer of the Kazakh producer, said in an interview. “A lot of financial players” are increasingly interested …
