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

MELBOURNE - A hive of mine exploration activity is underway in a remote corner of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, led by Rio Tinto Ltd , which has boosted its holdings 10-fold in the little explored Paterson province in the past year.Rio's interest in the area - flagged by its application for nearly 30 exploration licenses - has sparked a stampede into adjacent lots by other explorers, who...Read More

The brokerage firm said the stock is attractive at current levelsDeutsche Bank upgraded American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO) to "buy" from "hold," saying the retail stock is attractive at current levels. AEO stock closed last week at $19.54, but is up 5.5% this morning at $20.62.This upbeat outlook just echoes the broader sentiment seen among the brokerage bunch, with nearly all of the 12 analysts...Read More

CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More

CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More

CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More

CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More

Retail stocks will be in focus as Black Friday data rolls inStock futures are signaling a positive open today, as U.S. markets try to bounce back from last week's heavy selling. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is set to open up more than 200 points, and the S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) are eyeing strong starts, too, thanks to pre-market gains from tech stocks.The retail a...Read More

What to make of a critical S&P trendline break"I like to keep unpopular but significant moving averages on my radar... One moving average that I have used is the 80-week moving average... It is off the radar of many, if not most, market participants. However, it has had an uncanny knack for signaling poor future price action on breakdowns, while also marking support during various market drawdowns...Read More

How you can transform lagging indicators into leading indicators.For hundreds of years, since the first stock exchange opened its doors, every trader has been looking for an edge... Some way to predict what will happen next... And hopefully collect a fat "paycheck" at the end of the road.From Bollinger bands to momentum oscillators, technical indicators have been at the forefront of this constant...Read More

Canada's Capstone Mining (TSX:CS) is considering selling a portion of its large scale 70%-ownedSanto Domingo copper-iron project in Chile, as part of a strategic process kicked off today after the release of a positive technical report.The Vancouver-based company said the project, is located 50 km southwest of Codelco's El Salvador copper mine, said the report reveals that Santo Domingo has an aft...Read More

Canada's Capstone Mining (TSX:CS) is considering selling a portion of its large scale 70%-ownedSanto Domingo copper-iron project in Chile, as part of a strategic process kicked off today after the release of a positive technical report.The Vancouver-based company said the project, is located 50 km southwest of Codelco's El Salvador copper mine, said the report reveals that Santo Domingo has an aft...Read More

Roscan Gold (TSX-V: ROS) announced that it is moving forward with the development of its Kandiol?(C) Project and has just started a 3,500-metre Air Core drilling program, designed to test several of the numerous gold geochemical anomalies identified at the site.Kandiol?(C) is 100%-owned by the Canadian miner and it is located in the gold prospective Birimian Rocks of West Mali, east of B2Gold's Fe...Read More

Roscan Gold (TSX-V: ROS) announced that it is moving forward with the development of its Kandiol?(C) Project and has just started a 3,500-metre Air Core drilling program, designed to test several of the numerous gold geochemical anomalies identified at the site.Kandiol?(C) is 100%-owned by the Canadian miner and it is located in the gold prospective Birimian Rocks of West Mali, east of B2Gold's Fe...Read More

Small Business Saturday was on track to set a new record of $3 billion in online sales as of 10 am Eastern Time, according to Adobe Analytics. The day, which American Express Co. AXP, +3.73% launched in 2010, saw online spend increase 24.3% year-over-year during the early hours, reaching $400 million. Today is the day- #SmallBizSat! It's finally here-the annual holiday shopping tradition that get...Read More

China has already blocked more than 11 million flights and 4 million high-speed train trips for people who had poor social credit scores... Read full newsRead More

Goldcorp (TSX:G, NYSE:GG) and IBM Canada (NYSE:IBM) just launched IBM Exploration with Watson, a new technology that applies artificial intelligence to predict the potential for gold mineralization and is also capable of using search and query capabilities across a range of exploration datasets."The potential to radically accelerate exploration target identification combined with significantly imp...Read More

Goldcorp (TSX:G, NYSE:GG) and IBM Canada (NYSE:IBM) just launched IBM Exploration with Watson, a new technology that applies artificial intelligence to predict the potential for gold mineralization and is also capable of using search and query capabilities across a range of exploration datasets."The potential to radically accelerate exploration target identification combined with significantly imp...Read More

Goldcorp (TSX:G, NYSE:GG) and IBM Canada (NYSE:IBM) just launched IBM Exploration with Watson, a new technology that applies artificial intelligence to predict the potential for gold mineralization and is also capable of using search and query capabilities across a range of exploration datasets."The potential to radically accelerate exploration target identification combined with significantly imp...Read More

When his fellow miners winch him up from the hole in the desert, Keith Gushure is covered in mud.Gushure, 21, holds a pick and a hammer. For the past 18 hours he's been trying to chip, gouge and pry gold out of the 56-foot (17-meter) mine he helped dig, one of a series of deep pockmarks that dot the dry, flat landscape in Umguza, Zimbabwe, 230 miles (372 kilometers) southwest of the capital Harare...Read More

Mining giant Rio Tinto, (ASX, LON:RIO) has agreed to sell its controlling stake in R??ssing Uranium in Namibia to a state-backed Chinese company, in a deal that could bring up to $106.5 million to the world's second largest miner's coffers.The Anglo-Australian miner will initially receive $6.5 million for its almost 69% stake in R??ssing Uranium Limited, which owns the namesake mine, from China Na...Read More