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
James Kwantes of Resource Opportunities profiles a gold explorerthat recently released a resource update on its project in northern Quebec. New resource shows 423,000 Au oz Indicated at 1.22 g/t Au and 303,000 Au oz Inferred (1.27 g/t) at ChevrierGenesis Metals joins the Discovery Group; John Robins, Jim Paterson come on as strategic advisorsChibougamau is Cree for "gathering place" and the First...Read More
Sector expert Michael Ballanger describes his investment strategies in light of recent stock market moves. A few weeks ago, I published one of my more noteworthy missives entitled "The Time to Be Short (Again) Has Arrived," in which I advanced the notion that the level of the 200-day moving average for the S&P 500 (2,742) was about as good a level to exit the market, if long, or an opportunity to...Read More
The new President and CEO of Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD)(TSX:ABX), Mark Bristow, said the company wants to strengthen its partnership with the government and local communities of Papua New Guinea where the Porgera gold deposit is located.Barrick and Zijin Mining Group each own a 47.5% interest in the Porgera Joint Venture, while Mineral Resources Enga owns the remaining 5% interest. At present, the f...Read More
Hudbay Minerals' (TSE, NYSE: HBM) second-largest investor, Waterton Global Resource Management, has turned up the heat in a boardroom battle that seeks to replace the Canadian miner's chief executive officer and overhaul its board.The private-equity firm, which holds about 12% of Hudbay, released an investor presentation on Tuesday, detailing what it sees as the path forward for the miner. The...Read More
BHP, the world's largest mining company, has urged peers to create an independent international body in charge of overseeing the construction, integrity and operations of tailings dams, which storage mining waste, following the second collapse of a dam in Brazil in the past three years."As an industry, we now have to redouble our efforts to make sure events like this simply cannot happen," Chief E...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Tuesday February 19 that are worth another look.The London Metal Exchange has released the fees for its new cash-settled futures contracts to be launched on March 11, three of which - an aluminium premium contract, an alumina futures contract and a cobalt contract - are settled against Fastmarkets MB price benchmarks. Hot metal rem...Read More
A simple way to stop picking losers, and start cashing in like Wall Street's elite.Most traders would never believe that 9 out of 10 trades could be winners.But while it may sound impossible, thanks to a research breakthrough, it may not be as far-fetched as many think.JPMorgan's trading desk produced a 99.52% win rate from 2013 through 2017. That includes 2 straight years without a losing day....Read More
Mining companies in Brazil that operate 'upstream' tailings dams will have to completely decommission them by August 15, 2023, according to a new resolution issued by the country's mining agency ANM on Friday February 15.The document, published in the Brazilian official gazette on Monday February 18, showed that 84 dams currently operate through the upstream method, or an 'unidentified' one, and a...Read More
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How you can transform lagging indicators into leading indicators.Despite the strong January kick-start to 2019, many investors are still apprehensive of what's to come, especially considering some of the latest market-moving events -- think Fed policy announcements, U.S.-China trade negotiations, and earnings season, to start.While it's certainly no crystal ball, becoming familiar with the various...Read More
The firm reached a settlement with Texas over Medicaid contracts The shares of Conduent Inc (NYSE:CNDT) are soaring today, after the IT company came to a settlement agreement with Texas regarding two previous contracts supporting the state's Medicaid program. As part of the settlement, Conduent will pay the state$235.9 million over a three-year period, and CEO Ashok Vemuri said "we have sufficien...Read More
COT SPECIAL PUBLICATION SCHEDULE Reminder -- Due to the U.S. Government Shutdown (February 1 Announcement) The last COT report was published on December 21, 2018. Reports going forward from that date will be published in chronological order beginning with the report previously scheduled for release on Friday, December 28, 2018 (based on data from Monday, December 24, 2018). The CFTC publ...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 2.05 percent on a strong market outlook. Gold traders and analysts were split between bullish and bearish this week as gold struggles to get back up to highs seen in January, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. However, the yellow metal remarkably gained this week even as both the U.S. dollar and equities rose on the news that...Read More
By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.net We have all heard it. Many times through history, the hubris of analysts, economists, and market participants has been on display when markets rally extremely strongly. In fact, such hubris often accompanies major market tops. And, history has taught us that most of them are quite severely near sighted.Allow me to show you some examples."We will not have an...Read More
By: Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates: 1. As US markets re-open after the holiday, the world's "queen of assets" continues her glorious ascent to higher prices. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this magnificent short term gold chart.2. The rise above $1332 ushers in my new short-term target: $1355!3. Please click here now. Gold is well on its way to be...Read More
Rosy comments from President Trump on trade helped seal a win for stocksStocks erased early losses to end higher, as traders digested the latest headlines around U.S.-China trade relations. President Donald Trump helped the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all post strong closes after he suggested the March 1 tariff deadline could be moved, and said trade talks were going well. Meanwhile, Wall Street also...Read More
By: Captain Ewave GOLD: Short Term Update: Gold reached a low of 1305.30 this past week, but by the end of week we had moved higher to close in the 1324.80 area. We also had a key weekly reversal higher which is bullish and suggests higher prices are coming in the short term! We updated our count this week to a more bullish count that is suggesting that all of wave ?iii? of !iii! ended at...Read More
By: Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTARoughly one year ago and prior to that we observed that the gold stocks could be following the recovery template from what we deemed a "mega bear market."We define that as a bear market that is over two and a half years in time and over 80% in price. It cuts both ways.The gold stocks from 2011 to January 2016 had declined more than 80% and for more than four years....Read More
So much for the wall of worry! Bulls have improbably shrugged off steep downturns in the housing and auto sectors, rising interest rates, a costly tariff war with China, the pernicious rise of socialism on Capitol Hill, the economic implosion of China and Germany, a strong dollar that has sapped the earning of U.S. multinationals; and, most recently, evidence that retail sales nosedived during t...Read More
China has been increasing gold reserves as a buffer to blackmail by USA and its allies on the global trade war front. Yesterday someone posted on Twitter that bank of England does not reveal the audit of gold reserves. There is no accountability of the Australian gold reserves held with the bank of England. My view is that Bank of England or the Federal Reserve will not give back the reserves...Read More