Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) is strengthening its footprint outside Greece, where it has faced ongoing hurdles to advance two major gold projects, by investing $520 million in a mill at its K????lada?? gold mine in Turkey.The project would make of K????lada?? a nine-year, 270,000-ounce-per-annum mine. Currently, it's a heap leach operation, but Eldorado ran into major recovery troub...Read More
* Japan life insurers' preference for foreign bonds intact * But higher FX hedging costs suppress interest towardsTreasuries * Demand for JGBs still low, but bump up in yields stirsinterest * For individual reports on each insurer, click* Table of the insurers' investment plansBy Shinichi SaoshiroTOKYO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Japanese life insurers are poisedto buy more foreign bonds in the second hal...Read More
Oct 26 (Reuters) - Glencore Plc on Friday reporteda 12 percent rise in copper production so far this year, whilecobalt production rose 44 percent, boosted by the restart ofKatanga's processing operations in the Democratic Republic ofCongo. The London-listed miner and commodities trader, whichposted record half-year earnings in August, said then it hadbeen facing higher costs and weak prices for co...Read More
TRONDHEIM, Norway, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Norway's central bankwill maintain its policy of gradual monetary policy tightening,it said on Friday."The outlook and balance of risks imply a gradual increasein the key policy rate," Governor Oeystein Olsen told a businessconference.On Thursday the board of Norges Bank kept rates unchanged at0.75 percent and said a hike would likely take place in t...Read More
Published 23 Hours AgoUpdated5 Hours AgoReuters Gold rose on Friday to a more than three-month peak as investors rushed to the safety of bullion as stock markets around the globe plunged, putting the metal on track for its fourth week of gains.Spot gold rose 0.2 percent to $1,234.35 an ounce, having earlier gained nearly 1 percent to $1,243.32, its highest since mid-July.U.S. gold futures settled...Read More
SHANGHAI, Oct 26 (Reuters) - China's yuan hit a fresh22-month low against the dollar on Friday, as aweaker-than-expected central bank fixing ramped up market viewsthat authorities would allow larger declines in the currency.The move lower follows broad dollar strength as the eurofell after the European Central Bank failed to convince marketsthat its rates would rise, while expectations of gradual...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded Thursday after plunging more than 600 points in the previous session and wiping out its gains for the year. The Nasdaq's fall on Wednesday pushed it into correction territory.Tesla Inc. (TSLA) jumped 7.6% on Thursday after surprising Wall Street with a profit in its third quarter.Micros...Read More
The Thursday Market Minute Global stocks were a sea of red overnight, with the broadest Asia benchmark falling more than 2% to within touching distance of bear market territory and the Nikkei 225 slumping to a six-month low after last night's Wall Street meltdown.European stocks open with heavy selling, but a busy earnings slate provides some support ahead of today's European Central Bank meetin...Read More
CloseGain/LossOn WeekGold $1234.00+$3.70+0.62%Silver$14.70+$0.08+0.48%XAU65.17+0.68%-7.02%HUI144.65+0.86%-7.03%GDM530.73+0.31%-5.03%JSE Gold1213.58+13.07+1.56%USD96.35-0.28+0.66%Euro114.20+0.45-0.78%Yen89.42+0.40+0.34%Oil$67.59+$0.26-4.82%10-Year3.079%-0.045-3.66%Bond139.375+0.65625+1.11%Dow24688.31-1.19%-2.97%Nasdaq7167.21-2.07%-3.78%S&P2658.69-1.73%-3.94% The Metals: Go...Read More
By Ira EpsteinGold continues to shine due to stinking stock market.https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More
Gold COT Report - FuturesLarge SpeculatorsCommercialTotalLongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort192,578163,19073,950163,414209,934429,942447,074Change from Prior Reporting Period 3,378-8,3432,672-2,72911,7953,3216,124Traders19187935454288197 Small Speculators (C) GoldSeek.com LongShortOpen Interest 47,89030,758477,832 93-2,7103,414 non reportable positionsChange from the...Read More
Gold and its miners' stocks have proven rare bastions of strength during recent weeks' market carnage. They are powering considerably higher while nearly everything else burns. The markets' major sentiment shift is accelerating a young gold upleg, which ought to grow much larger as speculators and investors continue returning. Their collective gold positioning remains very low, making for...Read More
By Darryl Robert Schoon In January 2009, when bitcoin was released, its value was "basically nothing" ~wikipedia. Eight years later in January 2017, bitcoin was at $986 and in December reached $19,783, an astounding one-year rise of 1,900 %, outperforming the 1,500 % historic increase in the Dow from 1982 - 2000. In 2018, bitcoin lost 66 % of its value. Bitcoin's spectacular rise and fall w...Read More
By Avi GilburtThey say that when the former bears turn bullish, that is often the sign of a top.Source: Caters/Legion MediaFor the last three years and during the 64% rally in the S&P 500 from 1800 to 2940, many analysts were quite bearish, expecting the market to top out each and every week. They continued to point towards the "risks" in the market, all the while helping develop that wall of wo...Read More
DEEPCASTER LLCFORTRESS ASSETS PORTFOLIO | LETTERS, ALERTS & ARTICLESHIGH POTENTIAL SPECULATOR | HIGH YIELD PORTFOLIOPreserve & Enhance WealthInvestment & Geopolitical Intelligence "As seen from the outside, the Massive Upheaval in Western Society is approaching the limit beyond which it will become Meta-Stable and Collapse." Solzhenitsyn as quoted in The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, 1974...Read More
Wait, what?! Isn't the inverse head-and-shoulders a bullish pattern that was supposed to take gold miners much higher? Indeed, it is. But it didn't take gold miners much higher and all that the completion of the above-mentioned pattern generated was a corrective upswing that didn't even take gold stocks back above their December 2016 lows. And we warned that this is the likely outcome as the mor...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Silver market analyst Ted Butler today marvels at the frantic movement of huge amounts of silver among the vaults of the New York Commodity Exchange, and wonders why it is happening and why it gets no notice from other market analysts.Butler speculates that the cause is physical demand by JPMorganChase, which seems to have become the master of the silver and gold mar...Read More
Easy come, easy go. AMZN stunned traders with a 135-point gain Thursday from the bombed-out depths of Wednesday's selloff. Then, after the close, the stock reversed steeply, shedding 180 points and sucking tens of billions of dollars from stock markets in the U.S. and around the world in mere minutes. A disappointing forecast for the holiday season triggered the avalanche, which has abated somew...Read More
Golden Nuggets: Key Gold and Precious Metals News, Commentary and Charts This WeekHere is our Friday digest of the important news, commentary, charts and videos we were informed of this week.The old Wall Street adage is that they "never ring a bell at the top" but there was a real sense this week that we may have seen a turning point. U.S. stocks including both the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 have s...Read More
After the roller coaster ride this week in global financial markets, investors are cautious investing in everything. Gold is consolidating in a $1220-$1245 range. This range will be broken by Halloween. If industrial metals crash, then silver could take a back seat. Speculation of oversupply in crude oil has resulted crude oil trading with a softer bias. If crude oil does not rise today (being t...Read More