Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in Greg Weldon, CEO and president of Weldon Financial. Greg has over three decades of market research and trading experience, specializing in the metals and commodity markets, and his close connection with the metals led him to author a book back in 2006, titled Gold Trading Boot Camp, where he accurately predicted the implosion of the U.S. credit ma...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will scale back and then end in 2023 a flagship “Help to Buy” equity loan scheme, an initiative which has helped first-time buyers get onto the property ladder by allowing them to purchase a new home with as little as a 5 percent deposit.At the moment those taking advantage of the program, which is due to end in March 2021, can buy a property worth up to 600,...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - British public debt looks set to remain high for a long time and finance minister Philip Hammond’s budget on Monday does not change that view, ratings agency Moody’s said.“Today’s budget confirms our expectation that we won’t see a material reversal in the UK’s high public debt levels for some time and that elevated debt levels will continue t...Read More
The car stock is fresh off its best week in seven monthsAuto giant Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) has seenheavy options trading in recent weeks, landing on Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White's list of 20 S&P 500 Index (SPX) stocks that saw the most options activity in the past 10 days. Names highlighted yellow are new to the list. Today, Ford stock is up 4% to trade at $9.35, thank...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday said it has restricted U.S. exports to Chinese semiconductor maker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co Ltd, citing a “significant risk” that its new memory chip capacity will threaten the viability of American suppliers of chips for military systems.In a press release, the Commerce Department said it has placed Fujian Jinhua...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold prices aremoderately lower in early-afternoon U.S. trading Monday. Some profit takingfrom the shorter-term futures traders is featured. The stronger U.S. dollar index today that is hovering near last week’s nine-week high also workedagainst the precious metals market bulls today. There is also less riskaversion in the marketplace early this week as world stock markets hav...Read More
(Adds graphic, no change to text)By Richard LeongNEW YORK, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The increase in a key gauge of interbank borrowing costs for dollars slowed on Monday, while another measure of what banks borrow from each other remained elevated, raising speculation on what steps the Federal Reserve would take.The London interbank offered rate for banks to borrow three-month dollars from each other ro...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter waded into the heated governor’s race in his home state of Georgia on Monday, asking the Republican candidate to step down from his role as the state’s top elections official.Carter said he was concerned that popular confidence in Georgia’s gubernatorial election would be threatened if the candidate, Brian Kemp, were to rema...Read More
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks gained on Monday, helped by relief over Italy maintaining its debt rating, as equities clawed back from a sharp sell off last week.Financials .SPNY led broad gains among sectors as the benchmark S&P 500 rose more than 1 percent.Shares of software maker Red Hat Inc (RHT.N) gave among the biggest boosts to the S&P 500, surging 45.3 percent after the company agreed to...Read More
Merkel, 64, has been chairwoman of her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) since 2000 and chancellor since 2005. Her decision to step down as chairwoman comes after her party suffered its second regional election setback in as many weeks.Merkel made the announcement a day after Sunday’s vote in the state of Hesse, at which the CDU came first but suffered a slump in support from the last e...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - As global stock markets head for one of their worst months in a decade and bond market volatility surges to more than four-month highs, the stampede out of risk has left the foreign exchange market largely unmoved.Riskier currencies - from emerging markets or linked to commodity prices - have not suffered the sharp selloffs that would normally be expected when panicked investors...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has raised its official forecast for economic growth in 2019 while the outlook for subsequent years was unchanged or slightly higher, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Monday as he outlined his annual budget.The country's official budget forecasters now expect gross domestic product will grow by 1.6 percent in 2019, compared with a forecast of 1.3 percent made in M...Read More
Booming FAANG stocks are lifting the S&P and NasdaqThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is kicking off the new week with a bang, up more than 250 points at midday. Auto stocks in particular are booming today, thanks to a Bloomberg report that China is considering a significant cut in an auto tax. A big M&A announcement in the tech sector is stoking the bullish flames, too. As such, the S&P 50...Read More
Markets Gold and Oil Merkel US futures get week off to a positive start Risk appetite is gradually improving throughout the morning in Europe and the US is following in its lead with futures comfortably higher ahead of the open on Wall Street. I’m still far from confident that we’re through the other side of this particular storm and the coming week could be just as turbulent a...Read More
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States urged European Union governments on Monday to reflect on whether it was really in their interest for the EU to go ahead with a trade dispute over U.S. metals tariffs, and said it was hopeful of settling the issue with Mexico and Canada.U.S. Ambassador Dennis Shea told the WTO’s monthly dispute settlement meeting, which was considering 12 requests for adju...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - European shares, set for their worst monthly performance since August 2015, opened in positive territory on Monday in a tentative rebound from a sell-off which has depressed them to a level not seen since December 2016.At 0957 GMT, the pan-European STOXX 600 was up 1 percent with most bourses firmly in the black with U.S. stock futures turning positive despite worries about Chin...Read More
BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel heralded on Monday the end of a 13-year era in which she has dominated German and European politics, saying she would not seek re-election as head of her ruling conservatives and that this would be her last term as chancellor.Merkel, 64, has been chairwoman of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU) since 2000 and chancellor since 2005, making her one of the longest se...Read More
This company could give savvy investors a "backdoor" to cash in on the $50 billion marijuana boom.Any investor interested in the opportunities in the marijuana industry need to get involved as soon as possible.Financial experts from all over the world agree: a marijuana boom is coming. To the tune of an estimated $50 billion.Anda little-known Canadian company might have just unlocked the key to pr...Read More
Mr. David Wolfin reportsCORAL GOLD PROVIDES 3RD QUARTER 2018 EXPLORATION UPDATE ON ROBERTSONCoral Gold Resources Ltd. and Barrick Cortez Inc. have provided an update on their continuing work at the Robertson property in Nevada during the third quarter of 2018. The update includes the following: The Robertson Minex, PFS Engineering and Permitting Stage II AFE was approved. Work completed or in prog...Read More
FB stock has a history of negative earnings reactionsFAANG earnings will wrap up this week when Apple (AAPL) unveils its quarterly results after the close on Thursday, Nov. 1. Ahead of this are earnings from Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), with the social media giant set to report its third-quarter numbers after the close tomorrow, Oct. 30. FB stock was last seen trading up 1.2% at $147.06, and option...Read More