RE: Fake news - well let's hope so...12 Jan 2022 08:58
https://life.ru/p/1463000 has a claim (google translate):
"In Kazakhstan, they have a long-term contract for the purchase of uranium from Kazatomprom at a fixed price of $ 21 per pound. At the same time, the market price for uranium is now $ 43 per pound, and in the fall at its peak it exceeded 50. Accordingly, Yellow Cake PLC, without making any special efforts, has more than 100% profit on the speculative resale of Kazakh uranium."
This fixed price of $21 claim is a flat-out lie. The outstanding deal pending delivery is described in RNSs as:
"The Company intends to use part of the remaining proceeds of the October Placing to fund the purchase of 0.95 million lb of U3O8 from Kazatomprom, pursuant to Kazatomprom’s offer of 26 October 2021 and subject to contract, at a price of USD47.58/lb, with delivery expected to take place by June 2022."
If they want to reneg on a deal at $47.58, then let 'em!
And the contract for future deals is all at whatever spot is at the time.
>Is this all a pretext for $KAP to back out of its agreement with $YCA, all under "Russian protection"?
It is sowing the seeds for this, yes.
How's this for a prediction: this time next year - there'll be a U3O8 spot for Western delivery, and a separate U3O8 spot for Russian/asian including China delivery.