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

Precious metals refiner Asahi has won an auction for the assets of bankrupt Miami-based refiner Republic Metals Corporation (RMC), outbidding its Swiss rival Valcambi, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.RMC was one North America's largest precious metals refineries before it filed for bankruptcy in November.Asahi won the auction in a New York bankruptcy court on Thursday with a...Read More

Precious metals refiner Asahi has won an auction for the assets of bankrupt Miami-based refiner Republic Metals Corporation (RMC), outbidding its Swiss rival Valcambi, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.RMC was one North America's largest precious metals refineries before it filed for bankruptcy in November.Asahi won the auction in a New York bankruptcy court on Thursday with a...Read More

The social media stock is pacing for its longest win streak in monthsThe shares of Snapchat parent Snap Inc (NYSE:SNAP) are higher this morning, after analysts at Cascend Securities upgraded the stock to "hold" from "sell" ahead of earnings next week. The brokerage firm said the company's Snapchat redesign "nightmare" is over, with the app's Android ratings on the rebound. At last check, SNAP stoc...Read More

Commodities love a tragedy.Last week's burst of a tailings dam at a Vale SA iron ore mine in Brazil's Minas Gerais state has left close to a hundred, and possibly approaching 400, people dead. Far from wilting at the news, iron ore has been surging - up 12 percent in the last five days, its biggest five-day jump in about 18 months.That seeming cold-heartedness is only natural. Vale produces about...Read More

DECK is pacing for its best session since 2017The shares of Deckers Outdoor Corp (NYSE:DECK) are soaring this morning, up 9.6% at $140.78 -- and earlier touching a record high of $146 -- after the company announced earnings and revenue that beat analysts' expectations for its fiscal third quarter. The company also issued upbeat full-year guidance. Today, DECK is pacing for its best day since May 2...Read More

* Chinese premiums rise to $10-$12 an ounce* No import duty cut in India's budget* Weak currency keeps demand subdued in Hong Kong* Japan offers discount for first time in 20 weeksDemand for physical gold gathered pace in top consumer China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, while activity was muted in India as jewellers held off on purchases in anticipation of the country's budget presentation...Read More

In the aftermath of Brazil's deadliest mine disaster, a nasty and familiar feud has broken out.Green groups and community activists blamed avaricious industrialists, free-market fundamentalists and their official enablers for gutting safety protocols that led to last week's collapse of a tailings dam at Vale SA's Feijao iron ore mine, in Minas Gerais state, which has claimed at least 110 lives, wi...Read More

Wedbush sees more than 50% upside for the sharesApplebee's and IHOP parent Dine Brands Global Inc (NYSE:DIN) is in focus this morning following a very bullish note out of Wedbush. The brokerage firm started coverage on the equity with an "outperform" rating and $120 price target. DIN shares were last seen trading up 2.9% at $78.50, so this price target is calling for a nearly 53% rise in the secur...Read More

Zambia has fired Pius Kasolo, the chief executive of state mining investment arm Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holding (ZCCM-IH), Mines Minister Richard Musukwa said on Friday, without giving a reason.On Monday, Kasolo said the government should quickly resolve its tax row with mining companies to avoid hitting operations and ZCCM-IH dividends.Zambia, Africa's No.2 copper producer, i...Read More

First it was the Libor-rigging cartel, then the FX exchange-rate manipulation cartel, now, European regulators have moved on to prosecutingRead full newsRead More

Miner and trader Glencore on Friday stuck to its 2019 production targets and said cobalt output last year soared 54 percent while copper rose 11 percent due to the restart of operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Production of cobalt, used in batteries for electric vehicles, reached 42,200 tonnes in 2018 while copper hit 1.453 million tonnes. Zinc output was mostly flat year-on-year at 27...Read More

Mitsui & Co on Friday cut full-year profit forecast by 2 percent due to the absence of a dividend from Vale, but the Japanese trading house does not plan to change its holding in the Brazilian miner, a company executive said.With 110 people confirmed dead and another 238 missing, according to firefighters' count on Thursday evening, the collapse of tailings dam, which belongs to top iron ore miner...Read More

The shares are trading down almost 4% ahead of the bellThe shares of Opko Health Inc. (NASDAQ:OPK) are down 3.8% in electronic trading, after the Florida-based diagnostics firm said its suspending a mid-stage trial studying OPK-88004, a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) used on patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. This is offsetting news the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) app...Read More

AMZN results could weigh down the tech sector, thoughU.S. stock futures are trading mixed, as traders consider this morning's surprising jobs report. Specifically, nonfarm payrolls for January showed the economy added304,000 jobs, torching estimates of 170,000 despite the government shutdown. While the unemployment rate moved up slightly to 4%, Wall Street will be wondering how the strong economic...Read More

Residents of Brumadinho, Brazil, where a mining dam ruptured last week leaving at least 110 dead, 238 missing and an environmental disaster of epic proportions, claim a law-enforced alarm didn't go off on time to save lives, local media report.According to O Globo, one of the most respected Brazilian publications, mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) acknowledged that warning sirens at its C??rrego do...Read More

Residents of Brumadinho, Brazil, where a mining dam ruptured last week leaving at least 110 dead, 238 missing and an environmental disaster of epic proportions, claim a law-enforced alarm didn't go off on time to save lives, local media report.According to O Globo, one of the most respected Brazilian publications, mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) acknowledged that warning sirens at its C??rrego do...Read More

Sokoman Iron (TSXV: SIC) announced that it now owns a 100% interest in the Moosehead gold property, located in central Newfoundland, Canada.In a press release, Sokoman said, as required in the option agreement it signed with Altius Resources (TSX: ALS), the company invested $500,000 in exploration expenditures as an operator within the first year of the closing of the deal.Core from one of the hol...Read More

Sokoman Iron (TSXV: SIC) announced that it now owns a 100% interest in the Moosehead gold property, located in central Newfoundland, Canada.In a press release, Sokoman said, as required in the option agreement it signed with Altius Resources (TSX: ALS), the company invested $500,000 in exploration expenditures as an operator within the first year of the closing of the deal.Core from one of the hol...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

MAX Resource (TSXV: MXR) announced this week that, following sampling work at five conglomerate trial pits on its Choc?? project, free gold was observed in the test concentrates obtained from each of the hard rock pits.In a press release, MAX said that initial results suggest potential gold continuity throughout a surface area of approximately eight square kilometers, open in all directions.The Va...Read More