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

(IDEX Online) - A US jewelry retailer is facing legal action from three "whistleblowers" who allege they were fired for exposing a foreign gray market conspiracy involving Rolex watches.CD Peacock, which operates three stores in the Chicago area, says it will vigorously defend the action, and says in a statement that the "former disgruntled employees ???,? ? were terminated for cause".A similar ca...Read More

Oil prices jumped to five-month highs this week, pushed higher by a bullish cocktail of supply outages, geopolitical unrest and a sputtering shale sector.The most recent factor is the sudden eruption of the long simmering feud in Libya between rival factions. The attack on Tripoli by the Libyan National Army (LNA), a militia led by Khalifa Haftar, led to a spike in oil prices on Monday as the mark...Read More

Workers at ArcelorMittal Spain have called off the strikes that were scheduled to start on May 20 while they review a new offer concerning the implementation of a temporary layoff plan (known as ERTE), sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday May 19.A series of token strikes that was scheduled to start on Wednesday, and which would affect the steelmaker's Asturias and Sagunto sites, was called off by t...Read More

The Cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China, yuan/tonne trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets...Read More

Alumina prices on an fob Australia basis have gone up over the past week due to a high-priced deal for material destined for China, but market participants were still searching for clarity on market conditions on Thursday February 20.Fastmarkets calculated the daily alumina index, fob Australia, at $289.84 per tonne on Thursday, up from $281.69 per tonne a week earlier.It was now at its highest le...Read More

Australia's Human Rights Law Centre has issued a statement saying that the residents of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea have welcomed this week's decision by the Australian government to accept a human rights complaint against mining giant Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) for investigation and conciliation.The complaint, which was filed by the HRLC on behalf of 156 Bougainville residents...Read More

Short-term valuation analysis implies major gold stocks still have another 10-20% downside.Read full newsRead More

Friday's nasty stock-market reversal was the most interesting we've seen in a long while. The ostensible cause of the selloff was mounting anxiety over the spread of the deadly coronavirus from China to the U.S. and elsewhere. Three cases have been reported so far in the U.S. and 2,000 worldwide, and although no one seems to expect a major outbreak in North America, it's not hard to imagine a me...Read More

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 11/8/21Last week the Fed announced a $15 billion per month taper. But it is not meaningful, especially when politicians in DC plan on spending many trillions more. And if the Fed attempts rate hikes it can crash the entire system. Fed to start tapering bond purchases later this month as it begins pulling back on pandemic aid https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/03/fed-d....Read More

Export rebar and wire rod prices for material out of the CIS region decreased in the week to Monday January 27 under pressure from slow trading, increasing competition and falling scrap prices in the global market.Last week, Ukraine-origin rebar was available to foreign customers at $430 per tonne fob Black Sea, but Turkish mills reduced their offer levels over the week by $10-15 per tonne to $430...Read More

Egon von Greyerz predicts an economic destruction of markets and asset values and a major wealth transfer and tell's The Capital Network's Executive Director Lelde Smits who stands to loose and gain the most. Egon von Greyerz specialises in wealth management and wealth preservation for high net worth individuals. He's the founder and managing director of Matterhorn Asset Management, a Swiss compan...Read More

Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares his thoughts on the current state of the market and one gold stock he has been quietly accumulating. Markets are closed in memoriam for the recently deceased former president Jimmy Carter, but futures remain open.The USD index futures are ahead 0.01% to 108.940 this morning with the 10-year yield down 0.77% to 4.657 and the 30-year yield down 0.97% to...Read More

Prices in the local market for Turkish rebar and wire rod have continued to increase, influenced by the weakening of the value of the country's lira and rising costs for imported scrap raw material, sources said on Thursday March 14.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic rebar was TRY3,180-3,215 ($582-589) per tonne ex-works on March 14, including 18% VAT, up from last week's TRY3,100-3...Read More

Both nickel and copper possess properties that give them a central role in the drive for a greener future. While demand from existing use cases will continue to grow steadily, electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications will underpin a huge increase in long-term demand.At the recent Future Facing Mined Commodities Forum, we looked at the importance of these two metals for the energy tran...Read More

Precious metals miner Fresnillo reported a fall in first-quarter production on Thursday, calling it "slightly weaker than anticipated" but sticking to output targets for the year as spending on tackling operational issues paid off.Silver output slipped 14.8 percent to 13.1 million ounces in the three months ended March 31, mainly due to lower grades of ore and lower ore throughput, Fresnillo said....Read More

Lithium needs a transparent market where demand and supply meet to foster the growth of the sector, attendees heard during the annual Lithium in the South America conference organised by Panorama Minero on Wednesday November 18.The event that normally takes place in Buenos Aires was hosted virtually this year due to Covid-19 related restrictions. Interest around bringing price transparency to the...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice.Canada Growth Fund Investment ManagementThroughout the engagement, Wood Mackenzie's Metals and Mining Consulting Team, in collaboration with our Copper and Zinc subject matter experts (SMEs), worked closely with CGFIM to break down the global copper and zinc markets and assess the competitiveness of the McIlvenna Bay copp...Read More

Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average snapped its six-day win streak Tuesday as stocks ended lower after a strong opening.  Beyond Meat (BYND) tumbled after analysts at JPMorgan cut their rating on the stock amid concerns for its $10 billion valuation. Beyond Meat is Real Money's Stock of the Day. Apple  (AAPL - Get Report) shares rose...Read More

Geophysical Survey Systems Inc. (GSSI), headquartered in New Hampshire, has hired Adam Mercer as application specialist responsible for British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. He holds a MSc in geophysics, and comes to GSSI from a major global drilling company. Jan Kesik will continue to serve eastern Canada.The new president and CEO at Gatling Exploration of Vancouver is Nav Dhaliwal Dale Gin...Read More

CME has an asset-light business model allowing it to pay a steadily rising quarterly dividend and an additional annual special dividend. Read more here.Read full newsRead More