FL's profit, revenue, and same-store sales all fell shortFoot Locker, Inc. (NYSE:FL) stock is trading down 13.2% ahead of the bell, set to open below its late-November lows. Earlier this morning, the athletic apparel retailer reported first-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.53 per share on $2.08 billion in revenue -- missing analysts' estimates. The company also said same-store sales rose a less-tha...Read More
Over in the U.K., all eyes are on Prime Minister Theresa May's resignation Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are finally eyeing a positive open, after President Donald Trump said the trade war with China could be resolved soon, and a trade deal could result in relaxed restrictions on China's Huawei. He did, however, reiterate the security threat from the Chinese firm, calling it"very dang...Read More
MUMBAI/BENGALURU - Gold prices in India flipped into premiums this week on firmer demand in the domestic market, while buyers in top consumer China took advantage of weaker bullion prices and stepped up purchases.In India, dealers charged a premium of about $1 an ounce over official domestic prices. That contrasted with last week when gold was sold at a discount, of around $2, for the first time i...Read More
BABA is heading toward its third straight weekly lossThe shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) are up 1.8% in electronic trading this morning, after Stifel added the Chinese e-commerce concern to its "select list." The brokerage firm believes the stock's pullback due to trade war tensions presents a buying opportunity for long-term investors. Since breaking into the $195 level to start...Read More
The South Australian Minister for Energy and Mining granted Havilah Resources (ASX: HAV) three mineral leases and two miscellaneous purposes licenses for the Kalkaroo copper-gold project, located northeast of Adelaide in South Australia.In a press release, Havilah said the decision secures the company's right to mine Kalkaroo. However, the firm still needs to obtain permission to mine which requir...Read More
Max Resource (TSXV: MXR) reported this week the first assays from its 10-week exploration program underway at the North Choc?? copper-gold project, located 80 kilometres southwest of Medell?-n, Colombia.Among the highlights of the campaign, Max said that seven of 23 chip samples returned grades ranging from 155.27g/t gold to 2.94g/t gold and, of those seven samples, three returned values of >10,00...Read More
Mid-tier Canadian miner B2Gold (TSX:BTO)(NYSE: BTG) on Friday dismissed reports indicating it was mulling the acquisition of an idled gold mine in Zimbabwe, emphasizing it was not currently interested in any mergers or acquisitions.Chief executive Clive Johnson reiterated B2Gold's long-term growth strategy by saying that in addition to developing its existing pipeline of projects, the company co...Read More
* GRAPHIC-2019 asset returns: (Updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Nickel spiked to its highestlevel in over two weeks on Friday as bearish investors coveredpositions, while other industrial metals gained on a weakerdollar and hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal.World stocks edged higher and oil prices also recovered frombruising falls this week after U.S. President...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended sharply lower Thursday as the trade war between the U.S. and China intensified. NeoPhotonics (NPTN - Get Report) cut its second-quarter guidance amid lower revenue expectations resulting from the U.S. ban on business with Huawei Technologies. Best Buy (BBY - Get Report) beat Wall Street's first-quarter...Read More
Tighten up the belts! President Donald Trump's China tariffs are coming! The Trump administration's new duties on Chinese imports -- part of an effort to combat China's allegedly unfair trade practices -- are expected to ricochet back onto American consumers, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's research department. The researchers es...Read More
Goldprices are under pressure, unable to break away from trading in a tight trading range, but the summer could bring a pleasant surprise according to one expert. On Wednesday, the gold market was seeing little reaction to relatively expected minutes from last month's Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting. "This has been a tough market and we have just been trading the ranges," said...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 203,628114,82383,533167,827275,765454,988474,121 Change from Prior Reporting Period -22,73312,9984,7748,383-20,862-9,576-3,090 Traders 17781835058261193 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 53,65534,522508,643 224-6,262-9,352 non reportable positionsC...Read More
By Robert LambourneThe statements of account for March and April 2019 recently published by the Bank for International Settlements indicate that the bank is still actively trading gold swaps, which the bank uses to gain access to gold held by commercial banks. The statements also show that there has been a large decline in gold swaps entered by the BIS in the two months, about 215 tonnes.This is...Read More
The mid-tier gold miners' stocks in the sweet spot for price-appreciation potential have been struggling in recent months, grinding lower with gold. Their strong early-year momentum has been sapped by recent stock-market euphoria. But gold-mining stocks are more important than ever for prudently diversifying portfolios. The mid-tiers' recently-reported Q1'19 results reveal their fundamen...Read More
Celente: An Oil Shock Could Be the Black Swan That Finally Drives Gold Higher DOWNLOAD MPDon't want to listen? Read the podcast below!Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason.Coming up the top trends forecaster Gerald Celente of the Trends Journal joins me to discuss a myriad of topics. Gerald gives us more insight on why the precious metals are struggling, why he recently...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerElon Musk sent out an internal email to employees on Thursday in which he makes the highly dubious claims that the Company has 50,000 new orders for the Model 3, the Company has a "good chance" of exceeding Q4's record deliveries and the production of the Model 3 is close to 1,000 per week.Regardless of the veracity of the production numbers, the new orders and Q2 deliveries...Read More
By: Marin KatusaGold prices have dipped below $1275.Even the gold bugs are getting rattled.On the other hand, profit bugs are on the constant lookout for opportunity in echo markets. This is the time when the market is rewarding strong hands and shaking out weak ones.So if you're coming from a position of strength (loaded with cash, paying close attention) then your time to strike and cash...Read More
Professor Laurence Kotlikoff & Chris Waltzek Ph.D. - May 21st, 2019. DOWNLOAD - MP3 formatHighlightsProfessor Laurence Kotlikoff, from Kotlikoff.net and author of the FREE book: You're Hired!Our guest created a new program to assist investors with retirement via a scientific method, MAXIFI.Maxifi is top rated and efficient personal-financial planning software that identifies the optim...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Fighting gold price suppression by central banks and their market rigging generally would be a lot easier with the help of some of those people who have great resources and purport to be gold advocates themselves but who knowingly or unknowingly assist the other side.?>>?One of those people is billionaire Ray Dalio, founder of investment fund Bridgewater Associates i...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinInvestors realizing there is a real trade war going on..Read More