While the Wuhan coronavirus captured investor attention on Friday, a Fed official was laying out her prescription of what the central bank should do if things unravel. If Lael Brainard has her way, the Fed will be staking new ground in its efforts to lift inflation. It could have a major impact on Canadian stocks. We explain why in this week's Insights. In addition, gold investors should enjoy ou...Read More
Seven straight sessions of gains lifted the gold price to a fresh seven-year high, after renewed fears of the coronavirus sent investors scurrying to safe-haven assets.The gold price touched a new intra-day high of US$1,652.10 on the Comex market in New York, up 2%, or US$32 per oz., from yesterday's settlement, and the highest level since mid-February 2013.By midday, trade already hit the highest...Read More
Dividend stocks that are worthy of buying and holding forever should have the following characteristics: an underlying business that has top-notch quality, a long-term stock price chart that’s in an uptrend, ideally with below-average volatility, and safe and growing dividends.I’ll discuss three top buy-and-hold-forever dividend stocks that yield 3.9-4.7%.What’s a top-notch quali...Read More
Ecuador's National Assembly. (Image courtesy of the Assembly's press team, Twitter). The Economic and Tax Commission of Ecuador's National Assembly approved a report that allows for a second debate on the bill that updates articles 29 and 40 of the country's Mining Law. The goal of the reform is to promote transparency when it comes to public competition processes to adjudicate mining concessions...Read More
Up 10% in the last five days as gold explodes by 25% to smash a seven-year record, Newmont (TSX:NGT)(NYSE:NEM) is one hot stock. Breaking out since the headline-generating merger last year that propelled Newmont into the spotlight, this stock has generated a massive 48% share price appreciation in the last 12 months. And with 2020 looking like gold’s year, this trend may well continue.Newmon...Read More
Image of stibnite from which most antimony, a native element, is extracted. (Image by pepperedjane, Wikimedia Commons). Despite the price of antimony going up in late January and reaching approximately $5,600/tonne, market analyst Roskill says it is still not expected to quickly recover back to the 201?EUROE7/20?EUROE18 levels. Back then, the grey metalloid reached over $8,000/tonne.In a recent r...Read More
Reference image of a Toyota hydrogen fuel cell. (Image by Joseph Brent, Flickr). A research team from the Tokyo Institute of Technology created the first visible-light photoanode made of titanium dioxide or TiO2 enhanced with cobalt. The anode is a key element needed to achieve affordable water splitting to produce hydrogen, a clean alternative to fossil fuel.In a paper published in the journal A...Read More
Share this articleEDMONTON - The Alberta government has struck deals with two northern Alberta First Nations over a proposed open-pit oilsands mine that's awaiting Ottawa's approval.The Mikisew Cree and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations had previously reached deals with Teck Resources Ltd. for the Frontier mine, but were still negotiating with the province over environmental and cultural concern...Read More
These 5 gold mining stocks are all making new 52-week highs even if they go mostly unmentioned on the tube or in the press.Read full newsRead More
Greenlane Renewables Inc. is a pioneer in the rapidly emerging renewable natural gas (RNG) market.Read full newsRead More
Gold surged past US$1,600 this week and kept moving higher on the back of concern that the coronavirus is slowing the global economy.Read full newsRead More
These 5 gold mining stocks are all making new 52-week highs even if they go mostly unmentioned on the tube or in the press.Read full newsRead More
Feb 20, 2020 (GoldStocks.com via COMTEX) -- Gold has been in the middle of a remarkable rally over the past few days. On Thursday, gold futures gained for...Read full newsRead More
"$ORC - Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (ORC) CEO Robert Cauley on Q4 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript. https://t.co/2etigVn3nz #markets #finance #economy"Read full newsRead More
Tony Makuch, president and CEO of Kirkland Lake Gold, is The Northern Miner's Mining Person of the Year for 2019.Under his leadership, Kirkland Lake Gold has outperformed its peers in the last 24 months. The company's shares rose by 60% last year, it raised its dividend twice and more than doubled its cash position, ending 2019 with US$707 million in cash and equivalents.Kirkland Lake Gold operate...Read More
Rally car (Credit: Pixabay) Prices for March palladium went 1.18% up in late afternoon on Friday as the metal was trading at $2,634 an ounce on the Comex market in New York. Earlier in the week, palladium futures for March delivery climbed 7.8% at $2,497.60 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Wednesday and prices kept rising after the market closed, touching $2,504.50, the highest in...Read More
Thursday saw the price of gold reaching its highest level since early 2013. As a result, investors’ interest in gold stocks soared as they flocked towards Canadian junior gold miners to diversify their portfolio. Canada’s main stock index TSX also touched a new high on Wednesday, boosted by gains in energy and gold stocks. The materials sector, which includes precious and base metals...Read More
With broader markets trading close to record highs and recession fears looming large, is it time to look at alternative investment options such as gold stocks? Gold as a commodity has outperformed the equity markets during recessionary environments, and it makes sense to consider investing in the yellow metal in a downturn.Here we look at two gold mining companies that can create significant share...Read More
Publisher's Note: Gold soared past the $1,600-per-ounce mark this week and has shown no signs of letting up as it approaches $1,650.With this kind of dramatic bull market, we turn to "the original goldbug", Mr. James Dines, and an excerpt from his newsletter, The Dines Letter, for guidance on gold for this year.Call it like you see it,Nick Hodge"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is...Read More
Anglo-American mining firm Lydian International called on the Armenian governmen...Read full newsRead More