The precious metals all soared in 2025, and while a continued monetary expansion and geopolitical risk could still drive gains especially for gold in 2026, a pullback in silver, platinum and palladium is possible after recent partly speculative surges.Read More

The AOCE and WB have moderate overall forecasts for the metals in 2025 inline with IMF forecasts for a decline in economic growth and inflation, although we see the probability of a stagflationary scenario as still reasonably high.Read More

The past year was a difficult one overall for the metals, with the main standouts to the upside being a geopolitical risk-driven gain in gold, a China-driven rise in iron ore and a surge in uranium on broadening global support for nuclear power (Figure 1). A jump in global interest rates to near two-decade highs saw recession fears persist all year, and while one still did not actually eru...Read More

This year the post-global health crisis boom was brought to an end by a surge in inflation to forty-year highs, a major rise in global interest rates in an attempt to curb the rising prices and surging geopolitical risk after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While precious metals held up reasonably well as markets turned to them as a risk hedge, by Q2/22 the higher interest rates put an end t...Read More

Chile is the world leader in copper production, at 28.5% of the total in 2020, and this looks set to continue, with the country having the largest global reserves, at 23.0% of total. It is also the global leader for molybdenum, which is often found along with copper, and is a major lithium player, holding 51.1% of global reserves. Read More

Newfoundland has become a gold exploration hotspot over the past few years, with the sector seeing some of its strongest activity ever. While the province remains a small contributor to Canadian gold production, it has a substantial mineral industry well supported by the government, focused on iron ore, copper and nickel, and the surge in exploration suggests that gold output from the...Read More

Nevada is the core of the U.S. gold output, accounting for by far the majority, at 75.4% on average for the past year. The state looks set to remain a dominant player in U.S. gold, as it accounts for 49% of total U.S. reserves, with Alaska slightly ahead with 51% of reserves, but just 8.6% of current production. The U.S. accounts for 6.1% of global gold output, making Nevada one of the largest gol...Read More

The Golden Triangle in northwestern British Columbia has historically been a major site of Canadian gold production, beginning as early as the mid 1800s. There was a wave of production in the 1990s which cooled as the gold price declined, but larger scale production resumed in 2017, and the area has seen surging exploration interest over the past year, given that the region has some of the largest...Read More

In this report we outline the Quebec gold mining industry, including its major producers, and a survey of many of the junior miners focused on the province. Quebec accounts for 34% of Canadian gold production (second to Ontario, with 44%) and remains a major focus for both producers and junior miners.Read More

Red Lake has been one of the most prolific gold mining districts in Canada and the world, with exploration having started in the 1920s, and production, which began in the 1930s, continuing to the present day. The district is known for the high grade of its gold, its infrastructure, and strong institutional support, given the long history of mining in the area.Read More

Several FAANG names are due to report earnings this weekThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is lower at midday, erasing early morning gains as investors prepare for the latest batch of earnings reports, including several FAANG names set to report later this week. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) arehigher, though, enjoying modest gains thanks to semiconductor sector tai...Read More

Calls have been popular on both namesTrade tensions between Washington and Beijing have kept U.S.-listed Chinese stocks on the collective radar. Two names in particular that options traders have been eyeing are Hangzhou-based e-commerce concern Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) and Shanghai-based electric car maker Nio Inc (NYSE:NIO).In fact, both BABA and NIO popped up on a list of stocks tha...Read More

Investors have poured $4B into a flat-lining bond play over the last seven weeksAt its intraday high last week -- which also happened to be its opening level on Monday morning, July 15 -- the S&P 500 Index (SPX) was trading just north of 3,017, in the neighborhood of a 10% return from its June 3 closing low (and, as a point of interest, from its March 8 closing low, as well). And by the time the t...Read More

Two brokerage firms doled out price-target hikes ahead of Amazon's earnings reportRetail giant Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) just unveiled its plans to build two new robotics fulfillment centers in Ohio, one in Akron and one in Rossford, which will create over 2,500 full-time jobs. The FAANG name is getting bullish analyst attention today, too, with a price-target lift from KeyBanc to $2,200 from $...Read More

Disney stock is set to resume its long-term climbWalt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS) is in focus this morning following the release of its highly anticipated "The Lion King" remake, which brought in $531 million globally, and $185 million here at home, making it the largest U.S. July movie opening ever. And while critic reviews came in mixed, the film received an 89% score from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes,...Read More

This is the second upgrade the stock has seen in as many weeksThe shares of Stitch Fix Inc (NASDAQ:SFIX) have swung 3% higher this morning to trade at $27.70, after Stifel upgraded the online personal styling name to "buy" from "hold," saying recent weakness in the retail stock creates an "attractive entry point." The brokerage firm also sees growth opportunity in the U.K., and thinks new features...Read More

The White House will host a chipmaker summit to discuss the Huawei banIt's a big morning for the semiconductor sector, after a Friday report that White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will meet with tech executives to go over the U.S. ban on sales to China's Huawei Technologies. Perhaps the stock enjoying the news the most is Micron Technology, Inc. (NAS...Read More

The pre-Fed meeting week is packed with earnings reports from big namesWith investors turning a hopeful eye to an earnings-packed week, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are tacking on gains, following Friday's choppy trading session. Specifically, investor focus will be turned towards upcoming quarterly reports from several FAANG stocks, including Amazon (AMZN) -- which just got a price-...Read More

A closer look at the small-cap chart pattern that "screams indecision""Do not be surprised if round numbers like SPX 3,000 and Dow Jones 27,000 act as barriers in the short term. For what it's worth, SPX 3,008 is around 20% above the 2018 close, and could act in concert with SPX 3,000 as resistance. There was evidence of this resistance on Wednesday and Thursday, as the SPX effectively went sidewa...Read More

Dell's Women's Entrepreneur Network has recently announced the top cities in the world for female entrepreneurs.Calculations were based on the abilities of each city to operate a fair market, provide equal access to financial capital and enable businesses through technology and a positive culture.We're very pleased to see both Vancouver (no. 11) and Toronto (no. 9) representing Canada as top globa...Read More

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Montr?(C)al, QC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM | OTCQX: SYATF) (the "Company" or "Siyata") is pleased to announce that it has received an initial purchase order of $360,000 through a leading taxi technology distributor to equip taxi cabs in Israel with its innovative 4G/LTE CP250, an all-in-one dash mounted communications device.The CP250 is the first and only LTE, all-in-one fleet communic...Read More

Australia, Canada, Mexico and southern Africa, all key mining markets historically for the Swedish pair, are expected to see robust investment in underground fleet over the next 12 months.Epiroc, the former mining and tunnelling equipment arm of Atlas Copco AB, last week reported a 4% "organic" decline in June quarter orders, compared with the same period in 2018, to SEK10,553 million (US$1.12 bil...Read More

John Robins is the executive chairman and a director at Fireweed Zinc (TSXV: FWZ), which is advancing its massive zinc-lead project in the Yukon. Robins was the founder, executive chairman and director of Kaminak Gold, which discovered the Coffee gold deposit in the Yukon, and sold the company in 2016 to Goldcorp for $520 million. Robins took time out during a trip to Dawson City to speak with The...Read More

Yellow Cake PLC (LON:YCA) has reported a net asset value of 218p per share as at 30 June 2019.The valuation is derived primarily from a holding of 9.2mln pounds of physical uranium, worth US$24.70 at prevailing spot prices, but acquired at an average price of US$21.8 per pound.WATCH: Price pullback gives Yellow Cake good opportunity to acquire additional uraniumThe total portfolio valuat...Read More

Tensions in the Persian Gulf, where Iran seized a British tanker last week, had helped push the gold price to a six-year high above US$1,450 an ounce on the spot market last week and have lifted crude oil prices.However the gold price has eased today following indications of a smaller US rate cut being likely.Silver, which broke back above the $16/oz mark last week, has continued to strengthen to...Read More

Petra CEO Richard Duffy said at today's trading update the company's short-term focus was on "driving efficiencies across the business through Project 2022" to improve its cost base and enhance  cash flow generation to "significantly reduce our net debt".The Project 2022 goals were based on "flat nominal pricing over the three years".Petra finished the year to June 30 with net debt of US$560....Read More

Quality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithiumIn its latest sustainability technical report, Antamina said it planned to reconfigure the ore crusher platform and use a semi-mobile crusher with a 13,200 tonnes per hour capacity, which will see the operation process some 85 million tonnes per year of material.The company also plans to optimise the internal water manag...Read More

Lake Resources prepares to make a splash in lithium SPONSOREDlake resourcesStars aligning at Stellar for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxMetro Mining promises low-cost bauxite for Chinese smeltersSPONSOREDmetro miningNamdini moves toward 300,000ozpa realitySPONSOREDcardinal resourcesProfepa—the federal attorney for environmental protection—temporarily shut the facilities following two visits on t...Read More

I want to cover an important topic that is a little more technical, so put on your thinking caps!I'm talking about options trading. Options are by no means new, and I've talked about it options plenty of times before. But I find options trading is something that many traders are scared of because they don't understand it. And it makes sense! You shouldn't trade something that you don't understand....Read More