Continue...Nomi Prins is an American author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Prins is known for her books All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Po...Read More
Getting a fever is no fun. You likely get chills, you sweat, and you're just generally uncomfortable. You get tired easily and need to rest. But here's the Continue...Read More
Do you have the nagging sense that our empire is in decline?If so, don't be embarrassed by it. Historically speaking, we're in very good company. Far larger and longer-lived empires than ours have come and gone over the millennia. Continue...Read More
"If you are a male student at UT reading this right now, we hope that learning about this helps you not to feel guilty about having participated in these definitions of masculinityContinue...Read More
What's the difference between a bull stock market crash like 1987 or 2000 to 2002 or 2008 to 2009 and a bear-market bubble crash?Continue...Read More
Apr 30, 2018 Guest(s): Mike McGlone Gold has a good foundation for a rally past its current trading range, this according to Mike McGlone, senior analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. "In the last 52 weeks, the range for gold is the narrowest in 13 years. It needs something to really shift to not go higher," McGlone told Kitco News. McGlone noted that the strong U.S. dollar has been one reason why...Read More
Former Dallas Fed advisor Danielle DiMartino Booth and Stifel Nicolaus chief economist Lindsey Piegza on how the economy is impacting the stock market and whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consu...Read More
LONDON, 27 April 2018 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash is a guest today on the weekly podcast from the Investors Chronicle, the UK's longest-running personal finance magazine.Published since 1860 and part of the Financial Times' group since 1978, the Investors Chronicle today has a circulation of more than 30,000 per week, and ranks in the top 10,000 of all websites by UK traffic.Spe...Read More
Scott Ritter is one of the most experienced American weapons inspectors and in this interview with Dennis J. Bernstein he gives a frank assessmentContinue...Read More
- Investors should not be put off by higher interest rates, World Gold Council research finds they do not always have a negative impact on gold- Only short-term movements in gold are 'heavily influenced by US interest rates'- Correlation between US interest rates and gold is waning, with US dollar a better indicator of short-term gold price- New findings will reassure gold investors that there...Read More
Antioquia's Governor Luis P?(C)rez said that his province, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia, is the first one to prevent 25 tonnes of mercury from gold mining from polluting local rivers and forests.During a meeting held with officials from the Mining Ministry and other government representatives, P?(C)rez said that the initiative called Antioquia Free of Mercury is yielding po...Read More
(Kitco News) - Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. (NYSE, TSX: AEM) late Thursday reported that its profit and gold output eased in thefirst quarter compared to the same period last year.The company listed net income of $44.9 million, or 19 cents per share, which was down from $76 million, or 33 cents, inthe first quarter of 2017. The January-March results include non-cash forei...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday the United States would “probably regret” not keeping a holding force in Syria to ensure that Islamic State militants did not re-emerge, the latest sign that a total U.S. withdrawal was unlikely.U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he wants to withdraw American troops from Syria relatively soon but also ap...Read More
Benchmark Treasury 10-year yields extend retreat from 3%Dollar touches another three-month high before pulling backU.S. Economy Expanded at 2.3% Pace in First QuarterMost U.S. stocks edged higher as the debate continued over whether better-than-forecast corporate earnings are enough to offset signs the economy may be cooling. Yields on benchmark Treasuries declined for a second day after reaching...Read More
Goldcorp-backed Auryn Resources Inc. (TSE:AUG) announced today that it is close to becoming a big player in the Andahuaylas-Yauri belt in southern Peru.The reason behind such assertion is the company's recent addition of 60,000 hectares to its Sombrero project, which means that now its land position is greater than 100,000 hectares. The decision to stack was taken after the company received the re...Read More
Canadian miner Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd on Thursday said it is planning to divest all of its cobalt assets in Canada and that it sold some gold interests in the United States.Agnico said it also started a strategic review on selling about 2,100 hectares of the Coleman and the South Lorrain cobalt-rich properties in Canada.The company sold its gold interests in Nevada to a unit of Newmont Mining Corp...Read More
Gold, silver and platinum have closed lower today. However, gold is the only precious metal to have any kind of selling pressure. Traders have bid the precious yellow metal fractionally lower today (-$0.40). Both silver and palladium had fractional upside ticks in terms of the buy side of the equation. All four precious metals were weighed down today due to dollar strength. The net result was that...Read More
Amazon, Intel, and Microsoft rallied ahead of earningsA solid day of earnings sent U.S. stocks highertoday, with the Dow managing its second day of gains. Among the big earnings winners were Facebook (FB), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Visa (V), the latter of which paced the blue-chip rally. Tech stocks also enjoyed a rebound, with Intel (INTC), Amazon (AMZN), and Microsoft (MSFT) slated to re...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump distanced himself on Thursday from the legal troubles of his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen, saying he had done nothing wrong and Cohen did only fraction of his overall legal work.“This doesn’t have to do with me. Michael is a businessman. He’s got a business. He also practices law,” Trump said in an interview wit...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Investors are accustomed to the bold promises of Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) Elon Musk, but his assertion that the electric vehicle maker will not need more funds this year has many scratching their heads. How can the chief executive deliver on his many goals without a fresh infusion of outside cash?The California-based Tesla faces a crucial time in its 15-year history. Pr...Read More