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

The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) has welcomed overall the changes by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) to its reports for lab-grown diamonds. The GIA said its reports will be changed to come into line with revisions to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Jewelry Guides announced last year. As reported earlier, of July 1, the GIA will discontinue the GIA Synthetic Diamon...Read More

LONDON – The UK’s financial regulator added a small diamond pricing firm to its roster of companies managing market benchmarks, opening the way to making the precious stones a more investable asset.The Financial Conduct Authority has authorized U2 Diamond Prices as a benchmark administrator, joining firms such as FTSE International and ICE Benchmark Administration The move will allow...Read More

Publisher's Note: An earlier version of this article implied that the Union of Concern Scientists supports the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act. It does not and we are sorry for the error.What could Bill Gates, many environmentalists, and President Trump all agree on?What kind of legislation could nine Republican senators and six Democratic senators all introduce together?In short, one of the most im...Read More

Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (TSXV:DAU, OTC:DAUGF, FKFT:QXR2.F) ("Desert Gold") and Ashanti Gold Corp. (TSXV: AGZ) ("Ashanti") are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive combination agreement (the "Definitive Agreement") to which Desert Gold will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Ashanti (the "Ashanti Shares"), (the "Proposed Transaction").Read full newsRead More

It was a broad-based rally on Wall Street Stocks had a strong showing today, rallying out of the gate for a convincing start to the second quarter. Traders cheered signs of improving economic conditions in China and the U.S., with tech shares leading the S&P 500 and Nasdaq higher. Still, strength was seen across the board, as the financial sector, including Dow components JPMorgan Chase, Goldman S...Read More

Vancouver's Teck Resources and Japanese partner Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corp. have closed their $1.2-billion transaction giving Sumitomo a 30% indirect interest in the Quebrada Blanca copper project.The Quebrada Blanca property is 240 km southeast of Iquique at an elevation of 4,400 metres.Teck received the final permit to go forward with a $4.7-billion expansion at the mine and mill in...Read More

Vancouver's Teck Resources and Japanese partner Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corp. have closed their $1.2-billion transaction giving Sumitomo a 30% indirect interest in the Quebrada Blanca copper project.The Quebrada Blanca property is 240 km southeast of Iquique at an elevation of 4,400 metres.Teck received the final permit to go forward with a $4.7-billion expansion at the mine and mill in...Read More

Vancouver's Teck Resources and Japanese partner Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corp. have closed their $1.2-billion transaction giving Sumitomo a 30% indirect interest in the Quebrada Blanca copper project.The Quebrada Blanca property is 240 km southeast of Iquique at an elevation of 4,400 metres.Teck received the final permit to go forward with a $4.7-billion expansion at the mine and mill in...Read More

A bearish signal just flashed amidst the gaming sector's Macau liftCasino stock Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE:LVS) is higher, along with several sector peers, after Chinese gambling territory Macau reported well-received revenue data for March. As a result, the security is up 3.7% at $63.26 -- trading at a level not seen since early September. However, traders may not want to bet on LVS just yet. Th...Read More

BHP Group Ltd said on Tuesday initial estimates indicated its iron ore production would take a hit of about 6 million to 8 million tonnes after disruption and damage caused by tropical cyclone Veronica last week.The world's biggest miner said its 2019 financial year production and unit cost guidance are under review because of the cyclone which hit Western Australia.BHP's 2018 iron ore output came...Read More

The brokerage firm downgraded the shares to "hold"It's a rip-roaring start to the second quarter, with the stock market rallying on upbeat global manufacturing data. Among individual stocks making notable moves are online family care marketplace Care.com Inc (NYSE:CRCM), marketing analytics firm Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR), and pulmonary disease specialist Pulmatrix Inc (NASDAQ:PULM). Here's a qu...Read More

The security tends to struggle in April, tooThe shares of Puma Biotechnology Inc (NASDAQ:PBYI) are down 9.3% to trade at $35.29, one of the worst stocks on the Nasdaq today, after the company inked an exclusive licensing deal with Pierre Fabre to develop and commercialize its cancer treatment, Nerlynx, in the European Union. The shares are likely suffering because, as analysts at Guggenheim and...Read More

From its opening day highs of $88.60, LYFT has taken the elevator back down to below its IPO price of $72 on only its second day of trading...Read full newsRead More

Stocks broke above their short-term consolidation on Friday and they got close to the recent local high. The S&P 500 index was the highest since the early October more than a week ago. But then the market traded within a consolidation. Will the uptrend resume today?Briefly:Intraday trade: The S&P 500 gained 0.7% on Friday, after opening 0.5% higher. The market will probably open higher aga...Read More

U.S. stocks rose, tracking a global rally as better-than-expected manufacturing data out of China helped assuage worries of a broad economic slowdown.Read full newsRead More

Craig-Hallum believes the Apple troubles could persist for CirrusFabless semiconductor concern Cirrus Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRUS) is trading sharply lower today, after Craig-Hallum said the company's adaptive noise cancellation (ANC) is not in the new Apple AirPods 2, according to iFixit teardown. What's more, the brokerage firm suggested more Apple-related headwinds could be in store, since its cha...Read More

Speculators are gambling on more short-term upsideCasino stocks are mostly higher today, thanks to the latest data out of gambling enclave Macau. Specifically, while Macau revenue fell 0.4% year-over-year in March, it was the biggest month of 2019 and was in line with expectations. In addition, optimism about U.S.-China trade relations is also likely boosting stocks with exposure to both countries...Read More

The stock has been among the best to own in Q2, historicallyThe shares of video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) ended the first quarter with a gain of nearly 29% -- their best quarter since the end of 2014. What's more, EA stock could extend its 2019 rally over the next few months, if recent history is any indicator.Specifically, the maker of the "Apex Legends" and "Battlefield V" game...Read More

GameStop stock has struggled to break above key levels of resistanceInvestors are gearing up for a quarterly report out of GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME), set for after the market closes tomorrow, April 2. Below we will take a look at how the video game retailer has fared on the charts, and dive into what the options market is pricing in for the stock's post-earnings move.GameStop stock is down 0.6% a...Read More

Traders are cheering strong data from the U.S. and ChinaThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is up more than 250 points at midday, on lingering optimism over this morning's encouraging Chinese manufacturing data. Echoing that, U.S. manufacturing activity rebounded in March, per the latest data from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), while February construction spending increased. As suc...Read More