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

In a new leak that can be accurately labeled "the smoking gun," Google has been busted manipulating search results on YouTube in order to manipulate social behaviors and control minds...Read full newsRead More

AUSTIN, TEXAS - Emerson today introduced the Performance Learning Platform, a portable and compact automation technology training solution that enables hands-on training to prepare workers to maintain their plant safely and efficiently. The platform reinforces the competencies essential to fostering digital transformation and helps close the workforce skills gap as the Industrial Internet of Thing...Read More

An eco-friendly heating technology created by Saiterm is changing the way homeowners stay warm over winter. Based in Amsterdam, the heating technology firm has patented "Spring", an infrared system that aims to render traditional gas boilers and electric heaters things of the past.With Spring's infrared heating technology, homeowners can turn up the heat, reduce carbon emissions and radically cut...Read More

Put buying on SIG surged in recent weeksSignet Jewelers Ltd. (NYSE:SIG) is one of the biggest losers on Wall Street this morning. The stock was last seen trading down 23.2% at $25.63 -- fresh off a nine-year low of $25.51 -- after the company cut its fourth-quarter and full-year forecasts due to a weak holiday season. One reason given for the poor performance was a sharp drop in traffic at brick-a...Read More

These S&P stocks tend to stand out in the short holiday weekNext week will be a short one for traders, as U.S. equity markets will be closed on Monday, Jan. 21, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The federal holiday is observed on the third Monday of each calendar year -- to roughly coincide with the late Dr. King's birth date of Jan. 15 -- and 2019 will mark the 21st year that the stock mark...Read More

The shares are set for their best day in monthsThe shares of Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp (NASDAQ:ADMP) have added 11.2% to trade at $2.92 in early market trading, on the U.S. launch of the company's allergy treatment, Symjepi. The drug -- launched by commercial partner Sandoz -- will directly compete with pharma company Mylan's (MYL) popular EpiPen. The jump has ADMP stock pacing for its third str...Read More

Gold mining veteran Rob McEwen is nothing if not optimistic.The founder of Goldcorp Inc. is sticking with his bold prediction that the precious metal will soar almost fourfold to $5,000 an ounce, bolstered by a weaker dollar and waning demand for trendy assets like pot stocks."Once people get over buying cryptos and biotech and cannabis stocks they're going to start looking at gold again," the chi...Read More

LONDON - The London Metal Exchange (LME) will launch seven new cash-settled futures contracts on March 11, including hot-rolled coil (HRC) steel and alumina, it said on Thursday.The exchange, the world's oldest and largest market for industrial metals, also said in a statement that it expected to launch a lithium contract in the fourth quarter."We believe that these new cash-settled contracts... w...Read More

Chile's Cochilco state copper commission on Thursday maintained its average price prediction of $3.05 per pound for 2019, rising to $3.08 for 2020, amid the continuing U.S.-China trade war and further potential volatility because of Brexit.Cochilco said it saw production at 5.941 million tonnes for 2019, up 1.6 percent from 5.845 million in 2018, and a 227,000 tonne deficit in the global market fo...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee"), is pleased to announce today the finalization of an integration agreement for the Venzee distribution platform with an existing product content management engine. This agreement is an enhancement to a relationship with an existing referral partner based in the European Market."Integrating to existing platforms...Read More

Netflix will report earnings after the closeDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are trading below fair value this morning, as attention stays on fourth-quarter earnings season. Traders are digesting Morgan Stanley's (MS) quarterly report, though the shares are set for sharp losses at the open. Later on, after the closing bell, Netflix (NFLX) earnings will be the major story, with blue chip...Read More

AKS options traders have heavily favored putsThe shares of AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE:AKS) aredown 1.9% in electronic trading, after Clarksons Platou Securities downgraded the steel name to "neutral" from "buy," and trimmed its price target to $3 from $5.10. Earlier this week, Goldman Sachs gave AKS a price-target cut to $2.5 from $4, while noting the initial investor excitement around t...Read More

Cornish Lithium, a start-up hoping to lead the development of an industry for the battery metal in the UK, has secured a further ?1 million (about $1.3 million) from its existing investors, which will allow the firm to expand its ongoing drilling work in the ancient mining region of Cornwall, in south-west England.A year ago, the company said it needed about ?5 million to develop its project, w...Read More

The Chinese central bank has done it again and in Thursday's open market operation the PBOC injected a whopping 380BN in open market liquidity, bringing the week's total to a gargantuan 1.14 trillion.Read full newsRead More

Spey Resources (CSE: SPEY) announced that it has entered into an option agreement with Geoxplor Corp. to acquire a 100% interest in the Uravan vanadium-uranium project located in the La Sal area of San Juan County, Utah.Under the terms of the agreement, the Canadian miner has to pay the exploration company $310,000 cash, issue 3.5 million common shares, and make an additional payment of $1 million...Read More

Northern Superior Resources (TSX-V: SUP) issued a press release this week stating that it is ready to move forward with both its TPK gold-silver-copper project located in northwestern Ontario and its Lac Surprise gold project located in Quebec.The Sudbury-based company said it expects to start drilling at the Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning property, known for its initials TPK, by mid-February, following the c...Read More

Northern Superior Resources (TSX-V: SUP) issued a press release this week stating that it is ready to move forward with both its TPK gold-silver-copper project located in northwestern Ontario and its Lac Surprise gold project located in Quebec.The Sudbury-based company said it expects to start drilling at the Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning property, known for its initials TPK, by mid-February, following the c...Read More

Northern Superior Resources (TSX-V: SUP) issued a press release this week stating that it is ready to move forward with both its TPK gold-silver-copper project located in northwestern Ontario and its Lac Surprise gold project located in Quebec.The Sudbury-based company said it expects to start drilling at the Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning property, known for its initials TPK, by mid-February, following the c...Read More

The floodgates are about to open, and early investors stand to reap some major rewards.Everyone knows: It's the casino that NEVER LOSES.And for years, the gaming industry has been stuck in a legal limbo, with black market bookies and smoky underground clubs soaking up billions in potential profits.But the floodgates are about to open to the general public.A key law outlawing online gambling across...Read More

An economic slowdown in China, consumer of about half the world's commodities, is the single biggest challenge for the mining and metals sector in 2019. (Image courtesy of Liebherr.)A worsening of the ongoing economic slowdown in China, consumer of about half the world's commodities, is the single biggest challenge mining and metals companies face this year, a new survey of senior executives shows...Read More