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
Beijing allowed the yuan to tumble to its weakest level in a decade against the US dollar and asked state-owned companies to suspend imports of US agricultural products, Bloomberg reported, following US president Donald Trump's surprise threat late last week of further tariffs.Trump's move saw commodity prices slump on the London Metal Exchange, with economic bellwether copper closing down 2.9%.Fr...Read More
955 workers were trapped in a mine shaft by a power cut on WednesdayRead full newsRead More
Today in the INK Market Report, we highlighted the bull market in Canadian junior mining stocks. While the North American economy may be challenged to put in a V-shaped recovery, Canada's Venture market appears to be succeeding with that letter of the alphabet. The S&P/TSX Venture Index jumped 5.6% last week and the Index is now up year-to-date. Money is clearly moving into the sector, pushing up...Read More
You may have noticed the platinumprice has fallen well below gold’s price and it continues to underperform the otherprecious metals. What is happening in the platinum market? We see a handful of factors driving the recent declines inplatinum. For starters, it is facing the same challenges we find in the goldand silver markets. The dollarhas been getting stronger, interest rates are rising, a...Read More
Seaborne coking coal prices softened further on Monday July 15 despite buying activity generated by keen interest from China.A cargo of premium mid-vol hard coking coal was traded at around $186 per tonne cfr China, sources said during the day.This is $6 per tonne higher than the fob Australia price for a cargo of the same brand that changed hands last week. It is also about $4 per tonne lower tha...Read More
The deal is in the form of a non-binding term sheet with Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, who will continue with ongoing due diligence.Read More
"$PALDF - North American Palladium Ltd. (PALDF) Impala Platinum Holdings Limited to Acquire North American Palladium Ltd. Conference (Transcript). Get more info on Seeking Alpha: https://t.co/IgT7tXzmjx #stocks #markets #stockmarket"Read full newsRead More
Black Tusk Resources intends to use the soil testing and survey results to define future drill targets at this Quebec project. Black Tusk Resources Inc. (TUSK:CSE; BTKRF:OTCMKTS; 0NB:FSE) announced in a news release that it received the results of 203 soil samples taken in May from its McKenzie East project north of Val d'Or, Quebec."A number of interesting areas of interest were developed from t...Read More
Today, we put Wrap Technologies, Inc. in the spotlight for the first time. Click here to read if we believe WRAP stock is a solid investment.Read full newsRead More
U.S. stocks extended declines Friday after President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of comment on social media that suggested there was "no rush" to reach a trade agreement with China just after after he opted to increased tariffs on $200 billion worth imports in the latest escalation of the ongoing trade war. Trump again intimated -- incorrectly -- that China would pay the cost of the ta...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold neutral, the battle ground around current levels..Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
The recent rally in the bond yields pushed gold prices down, but this trend won’t continue forever, as the Fed will likely be forced to step in.In March, we saw a continuation of the rally in bond yields that started in February. As the chart below shows, the 10-year real interest rates have soared from -1.06 on February 10 to -0.66 percent on March 23. What is clear from the chart is the st...Read More
Turkish steel producers have ended another week without making any deep-sea purchases because of the continued lack of demand for finished steel in the country's domestic and export markets, sources said on Friday December 14.Domestic mills have been holding back from scrap purchases for three weeks now, with only one cargo booked since November 23, which was a European cargo at an average price o...Read More
"People make the difference.$CLM has assembled a unique team, from it'sRead full newsRead More
Tony Heller - Twitter, Released on 12/29/22There is more Arctic sea ice now than there was fifteen years ago, when @algore predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014#ClimateScamftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p1/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt pic.twitter.com/32dmyqBT9m- Tony Heller (@TonyClimate) December 29, 2022 There is more Arctic sea ice now than there was fifteen years ago added by Herman Ja...Read More
Factional conflicts have the power to destroy empires – and republics … Bitter fights in Washington are making the US economy look much worse than it is. The US Founding Fathers abhorred factions. The 10th Federalist Paper by James Madison in 1787 is a study of how to defend the fledgling republic against the dangers of organised zealotry, the curse that blighted earlier republics in w...Read More
Gold regains bid tone in Europe. Equities drop in early trade. Gold is mildly bid in Europe, possibly due to moderate losses in the European equities. As of writing, the metal (XAU/USD) is trading at $1314/Oz levels; up 0.23 percent on the day. Prices hit a one-week low of $1308.22 in Asia, tracking the rise in the US 10-year treasury yield to 2.57 percent (highest level since March). The recove...Read More
I’ve seen Wall Street analysts make some bad calls before, but this one really takes the cake. They’re so far off base that even a major Wall Street firm is calling them out for being behind the curve.In a note to clients, Credit Suisse said the following:“Analysts have adjusted their 2018 forecasts by less than 2% for recent tax changes, a fraction of the likely impact.”...Read More