Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
*If the volume isn't working, click the volume icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the video playerHarry breaks down last week's Helsinki Summit and President Trump's remarks, and the ripple effects it could have on us and global economies...Harry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, new venture investor, noted speaker, bestselling author, and the founder and senior editor at Dent Researc...Read More
Click Here to Listen to the InterviewAndrew Maguire is an Independent London Metals Trader and Analyst, internationally renowned for his unique ability to read the precious metals market with the knowledge and experience gained over 35 years trading in financial and commodity markets. Andrew sits on the advisory board of a global physical bullion exchange and is a consultant advisor to many intern...Read More
The nation's premier corporate profit engines / social media giants are the ideal platforms for undermining the U.S. via the sowing of disintegration.Continue...Read More
China's hot-rolled coil prices rebounded on Monday July 23 with buyers returning to the market for materials after the weekend, sources said....Read More
John R. Lott, Jr. is a columnist for FoxNews.com. He is an economist and was formerly chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission. Lott is also Continue...Read More
(Reuters) - Oilfield services provider Halliburton Co’s (HAL.N) quarterly revenue rose 24 percent to beat analysts’ estimates on Monday as higher oil prices encouraged U.S. oil and gas producers to put more rigs to work.U.S. rig count, an early indicator of future output, stood at 858 in the week to July 20, according to a Baker Hughes report, up from 764 a year earlier, as energy comp...Read More
(Bloomberg) - South Africa's gold industry, once the world's largest, faces an inevitable decline, according to the chairman of the country's biggest producer of the metal by market value.Output will continue to shrink as miners chase ever-deeper ore bodies while struggling to keep costs down, said AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. Chairman Sipho Pityana. That means the Johannesburg-based company has decisi...Read More
Continue...Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Before joining PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at...Read More
Anticipate before you participate in the market. This is a classic piece of advice I like to give investors and have written about extensively in my CEO blog, Frank Talk. Financial markets are influenced by relatively predictable cycles and trading patterns, and by better understanding these we are able to react thoughtfully to headline noise or unexpected market developments.How many of you remem...Read More
(Bloomberg) - It's getting ugly out there. Commodities are getting shaken up as investors fret about the fall-out from the global trade war, and as the White House turns up the heat against Iran. President Donald Trump just fired off a blunt, tweeting a threat to counterpart Hassan Rouhani, and U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo upped the ante with his own remarks in California.Against that b...Read More
Ferrous scrap exports from Russia's Far East region will be subject to restrictions for a six-month period that began on Saturday July 21. This will squeeze suppliers between a reduced number of available ports to sell into but does not guarantee a rise in domestic demand, according to Metal Bulletin Research (MBR)....Read More
The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted a better method of analysing the impact of public sector pensions on state and local budgets. The results are ominous Continue...Read More
JOHANNESBURG, July 23 (Reuters) - South Africa's Harmony Gold said on Monday annual bullion production for 2018 has exceeded its guidance, boosted by its Moab Khotsong operation.Gold production was 4 percent more at 1.228 million ounces for the full-year compared with guidance of 1.18 million ounces. Harmony said its newly acquired Moab Khotsong mine produced 105,900 ounces for the four months the...Read More
According to financial writer Simon Black, the federal government is spending approximately 52,000 dollars per second. This, not last year's tax cuts, is the reason why the national debt has reached a record 21 trillion dollars, which is more than America's gross domestic product (GDP).Another ominous sign is that this year both Social Security and Medicare will have to draw down on their reserve...Read More
Caterpillar and Newmont Mining, with the support of Cashman Equipment Co., the Cat dealer in Nevada, have entered a collaboration agreement to validate and improve underground hard rock mining vehicle automation technology. The initial focus of the collaborative effort is Command for underground, the Cat (R) system for semi-autonomous and remote operation of underground loaders. Command for underg...Read More
Barrick Gold's (TSX, NYSE:ABX) president, Kelvin Dushnisky, is leaving the world's top miner of the precious metal to become South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti (JSE:ANG) (NYSE:AU) new boss.Dushnisky will take the helm at AngloGold in September, ending the search to replace Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, who in April said he was leaving the world's third-biggest gold miner by output to run India's V...Read More
Debt financing doubled between 2016 and 2017, writes the PDAC in its mineral financing report released last month.While the amount of financing recovered from mid-decade lows due to a cyclical upswing in global economic activity, the composition of financing changed."Equity financing, which accounts for on average roughly 35% of the funds raised globally, declined the most in 2013 but has subseque...Read More
For maybe the best example of how financial trends are diverging at the opposite ends of the wealth spectrum, contrast the cash flowing into the accountsContinue...Read More
(Reuters) - Toymaker Hasbro Inc (HAS.O) topped Wall Street estimates for profit and revenue in the second quarter as it emerged from the worst effects of last year’s Toys ‘R’ Us bankruptcy, sending its shares up nearly 7 percent in premarket trading.Hasbro, like other U.S. toymakers, was hit hard by the sooner-than-expected collapse of Toys ‘R’ Us and had said it woul...Read More
Mexico is trying hard to reach a Nafta agreement with the U.S. and Canada by the end of next month, according to three people familiar with the matterContinue...Read More