* Greek official says deal to repay IMF loans imminent * Greek 10-year yields hit new 13-year low on Monday * Improving mood keeps Bund yields at three-week high * Euro zone periphery govt bond yields (Updates pricing, adds chart)By Abhinav RamnarayanLONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Greek government bond yieldswere closing in on record lows on Monday after an official saida deal to repay International...Read More
Large speculators have an extreme net short position as the VIX tests 2018's floor"It's hedge funds, who have stubbornly refused to embrace stocks even as global equities added $10 trillion in value over the last three months. At the end of March, their net exposure as measured by the ratio of bullish bets to bearish ones stood near the lowest level in more than a year, client data compiled by JPM...Read More
Canada's Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) has agreed to acquire a copper-gold operation in Brazil from fellow miner Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY), (TSE: YRI) in a $1 billion-deal as it looks to beef up its base metals portfolio.The Chapada mine, in the northwest Brazilian state of Goi??s, began production in 2007 and is expected to churn out about 54,500 tonnes of copper and 100,000 ounces of gold this year.The...Read More
Gold giant Newmont Mining's (NYSE:NEM) $10 billion acquisition of Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) is expected to close this week as the deal has received Investment Canada Act approval.Last week, almost 98%of Newmont's shareholders approved the deal, which creates the world's largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, and robs Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy. Earlier this mo...Read More
* Gold may revisit April 4 low of $1,280.59 -analyst * Silver hits 3-1/2-month lows * Asian shares near nine-month high (Updates prices)By Sethuraman N RApril 15 (Reuters) - Gold prices fell on Monday to a morethan one-week low as progress in U.S.-China trade talks liftedrisk sentiment, taking the sheen off safe-haven bullion even asthe dollar weakened.Spot gold dipped 0.5 percent to $1,283.65 per...Read More
* Focus on credit and liquidity in China * Zinc stocks at historical low (Updates with closing prices)By Pratima DesaiLONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Copper prices steadied onMonday, reinforced by a lower dollar and healthy economicnumbers from China ahead of a barrage of growth data later thisweek from the top consumer.Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange endedlittle changed at $6,480 a ton...Read More
REVIEW AND PREVIEW Basel III Capital Adequacy Ratio Minimum Requirement. ... As of 2017, under Basel III, a bank's tier 1 and tier 2 capital must be at least 8% of its risk-weighted assets. The minimum capital adequacy ratio (including the capital conservation buffer) is 10.5%. https://www.investopedia.com/ March 24, 2019. World stock markets performed unevenly last week, but certainly within...Read More
* FTSE 100 ends flat; FTSE 250 up 0.5 pct * Miners, oil stocks biggest drags * IWG jumps on sale of Japan business, CS rating hike * Indivior surges on hopes of a lower U.S. fine(Adds company news items, updates to closing prices)By Muvija MApril 15 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 was at a loss fordirection on Monday as a dip in miners and oil majors offsetgains in bank stocks, while office group I...Read More
* First greenfield aluminium mill in U.S. for 37 years * Rusal looks to invest $200 million in the mill * To supply 2.0 mln T of low-carbon aluminium over 10 years (Releads, adds detail throughout)By Polina DevittMOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Rusal is making itsfirst investment in the United States since Washington liftedsanctions against the Russian aluminium giant, teaming up withU.S. manufacture...Read More
April 12th, 2019(S14-E691)Featured GuestsMartin Armstrong & Dr. Douglas VogtPlease Listen HereLIMITED OFFER - FREE $5 IN ONEGOLD DIGITAL BLOCKCHAIN EXCLUSIVELY TO GOLDSEEK.COM PATRONS! (Remember to say GoldSeek Radio sent you!).The head of The Diehold Foundation, Dr. Douglas Vogt makes his show debut in Part I of the discussion.The Diehold message could be the most important message of the...Read More
By: PlungerHaving trouble making sense of the market? Do you feel like you are living in some sort of a parallel universe where almost everything happening in the market seems to be the opposite of what you have learned should happen? You are not alone so let's try to make some sense of it. This weekend I will present two possible outcomes for the stock market and the rational behind them....Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Central banks get away with the flaming hypocrisy illustrated below because mainstream news organizations don't dare to put a critical question to them.Here, if David Lawder and Leika Kihara of Reuters were serious journalists, and their editor, Paul Simao, had the wit for his job, someone from Reuters would have asked the managing director of the International Monet...Read More
By: Ira EpstienMonthly-Gold has been stuck in a range for 2-years. Weekly gold chart, bearish pattern. Momentum and bias is down. GDX chart is different..Read More
Losing DecadesToo Much, Too FastA $6 trillion $10 Trillion Federal Reserve Balance SheetMastering Private MarketsLiving on Puerto Rico TimeRegular readers may have noticed me slowly losing confidence in the economy. Your impression is correct and there's a good reason for it, as I will explain today. The facts have changed so my conclusions are changing, too.I still think the economy is okay for...Read More
April 12th, 2019(S14-E691)Featured GuestsMartin Armstrong & Dr. Douglas VogtPlease Listen HereLIMITED OFFER - FREE $5 IN ONEGOLD DIGITAL BLOCKCHAIN EXCLUSIVELY TO GOLDSEEK.COM PATRONS! (Remember to say GoldSeek Radio sent you!).The head of The Diehold Foundation, Dr. Douglas Vogt makes his show debut in Part I of the discussion.The Diehold message could be the most important message of the...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Central banks get away with the flaming hypocrisy illustrated below because mainstream news organizations don't dare to put a critical question to them.Here, if David Lawder and Leika Kihara of Reuters were serious journalists, and their editor, Paul Simao, had the wit for his job, someone from Reuters would have asked the managing director of the International Monet...Read More
By: Ira EpstienMonthly-Gold has been stuck in a range for 2-years. Weekly gold chart, bearish pattern. Momentum and bias is down. GDX chart is different..Read More
Losing DecadesToo Much, Too FastA $6 trillion $10 Trillion Federal Reserve Balance SheetMastering Private MarketsLiving on Puerto Rico TimeRegular readers may have noticed me slowly losing confidence in the economy. Your impression is correct and there's a good reason for it, as I will explain today. The facts have changed so my conclusions are changing, too.I still think the economy is okay for...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesApr 15, 2019Every few years I come across a company that has extraordinary potential. I’ve just found another one and it may be one of the best yet.NovaGold was the first I came across. They were about $1 when I first wrote about them in 2001. They went to nearly $20 a share. Then dropped to $.46 in the crash of 2008. I believe junior exploration companies should be thou...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 0.24 percent as hedge funds cut bullish positioning to a six-month low, perhaps resetting expectations. Gold traders turned heavily bullish this week after being neutral last week as the Federal Reserve signaled interest rates will be on hold, ac...Read More