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

(Bloomberg) - The global power needed to create cryptocurrencies this year could rival the entire electricity consumption of Argentina and be a growth driver for renewable energy producers from the U.S. to China.Miners of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could require up to 140 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2018, about 0.6 percent of the global total, Morgan Stanley analysts led by Nicholas...Read More

By JEFF DESJARDINS on January 10, 2018Courtesy of: Visual CapitalistRecords for renewable energy consumption were smashed around the world in 2017.Looking at national and state grids, progress has been extremely impressive. In Costa Rica, for example, renewable energy supplied five million people with all of their electricity needs for a stretch of 300 consecutive days. Meanwhile, the U.K. broke...Read More

By JEFF DESJARDINS on January 10, 2018Courtesy of: Visual CapitalistRecords for renewable energy consumption were smashed around the world in 2017.Looking at national and state grids, progress has been extremely impressive. In Costa Rica, for example, renewable energy supplied five million people with all of their electricity needs for a stretch of 300 consecutive days. Meanwhile, the U.K. broke...Read More

The U.S. stock market will be closed on Monday, Jan. 15, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. If past is prologue, the S&P 500 Index (SPX) could be in for a rough holiday week, too. Below, we take a look at how the SPX tends to perform during MLK Week, and why buyers should beware blue-chip stock American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) ahead of earnings.S&P Struggles During MLK WeekSince 1998, the S&P has...Read More

LUSAKA, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Zambia expects to collect more revenue from mining companies this year compared to 2017 after copper prices rose above $7,000 per tonne, the revenue authority (ZRA) said on Wednesday.ZRA Commissioner-General Kingsley Chanda said at a media briefing the authority was targeting a revenue-to-GDP ratio of 17 percent this year, higher that 16.8 percent in 2017."The copper pri...Read More

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia hopes to finalize contract talks with Freeport McMoRan Inc over the Grasberg copper mine by June, although divestment issues are still unresolved, a mining ministry official said on Thursday.Indonesia and Freeport formed a framework agreement in August to transfer the company's rights to Grasberg to a new mine license system from an existing contract of work. Under th...Read More

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia hopes to finalize contract talks with Freeport McMoRan Inc over the Grasberg copper mine by June, although divestment issues are still unresolved, a mining ministry official said on Thursday.Indonesia and Freeport formed a framework agreement in August to transfer the company's rights to Grasberg to a new mine license system from an existing contract of work. Under th...Read More

Footwear stocks Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE:FL) and Finish Line Inc (NASDAQ:FINL) are in the headlines today after the sector peers garnered some attention from analysts at Wells Fargo ahead of today's opening bell. Here's a closer look at how FL and FINL stocks are faring. Foot Locker Falls Despite Positive Analyst AttentionFL is down 0.7% to trade at $45.94 after Well Fargo upped its price target...Read More

With oil prices rising in recent months to multi-year highs, it's not surprising Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) has been on a strong run since this past July. CVX shares have gained 23.6% in the past six months, and this morning touched a fresh three-year high of $129.95. Let's take a closer look at Chevron stock and this morning's brokerage attention below. BMO this morning upgraded the energy gi...Read More

Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT) is making headlines this morning, after the blue chip announced it's raising its starting wage to $11 an hour, while giving other eligible full-time employees one-time cash bonuses. It also will be expanding maternity and parental leave benefits. The added benefits can be attributed to the tax law changes that were enacted last month. WMT stock has added 45% year-o...Read More

Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX) is reportedly in talks to team up with Japanese camera maker Fujifilm Holdings. According to the Wall Street Journal, the copy specialist is under pressure from Carl Icahn -- its largest stakeholder -- to modernize, with the activist investor warning in an open letter to shareholders last December that XRX could end up like Eastman Kodak. And while the two companies have been...Read More

Mid-tier Canadian miner B2Gold (TSX, NYSE:BTO) said Thursday it had achieved record fourth quarter and full-year output in 2017, thanks mainly to the start of commercial production at its Fekola mine, in south-western Mali.The Vancouver-based company, which poured its first gold at Fekola in November, produced 630,565 ounces of the yellow metal last year, a figure that includes the 79,243 ounces...Read More

Mid-tier Canadian miner B2Gold (TSX, NYSE:BTO) said Thursday it had achieved record fourth quarter and full-year output in 2017, thanks mainly to the start of commercial production at its Fekola mine, in south-western Mali.The Vancouver-based company, which poured its first gold at Fekola in November, produced 630,565 ounces of the yellow metal last year, a figure that includes the 79,243 ounces...Read More

Mid-tier Canadian miner B2Gold (TSX, NYSE:BTO) said Thursday it had achieved record fourth quarter and full-year output in 2017, thanks mainly to the start of commercial production at its Fekola mine, in south-western Mali.The Vancouver-based company, which poured its first gold at Fekola in November, produced 630,565 ounces of the yellow metal last year, a figure that includes the 79,243 ounces...Read More

The U.S. stock rally appears ready to resume today, with futures on the S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) above fair value. The benchmarks logged their first loss of 2018 yesterday, on reports China was considering scaling back its U.S. bond purchases, though Beijing has since dismissed the speculation as "fake news." While bank stocks appear ready for a positive session ahead of four...Read More

The world's mining sector is firing on all cylinders again, and one of it's biggest investors can't wait to get paid.After five years of under-performance, a combination of synchronous global growth and under-investment in new supply has driven up commodity prices, increasing cash flow and profit margins for the world's biggest mining companies, according to BlackRock Inc.'s Evy Hambro."When those...Read More

?>>?(Bloomberg) - The world's mining sector is firing on all cylinders again, and one of it's biggest investors can't wait to get paid.After five years of under-performance, a combination of synchronous global growth and under-investment in new supply has driven up commodity prices, increasing cash flow and profit margins for the world's biggest mining companies, according to BlackRock Inc.'s Evy...Read More

On Dec. 10, 1999, Amazon.com stock closed at $106 per share, a mind-blowing 67 times its price only 2 1/2 years earlier. Opinion articles in major newspapers declared there was no doubt that Amazon shares were in an irrational bubble. The disbelievers were right. Less than two years later, in September 2001, Amazon's AMZN, +1.78%share price had collapsed to $6. While many of Amazon's dot-com p...Read More

The final stretch of 2017 started with a bang for our Weekend Trader options recommendation services, as traders closed out three winners in three days. First, our Dollar Tree (DLTR) call option was closed out at a 102% gain on Nov. 29, less than two months after it was initially recommended. Then, on Nov. 30, a Kroger (KR) call option hit its target for a 104% return in a little over two weeks, w...Read More

Global miner Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) is said to have ditched plans to own a stake in Chile's Chemical and Mining Society (SQM), the world's largest lithium producer, due to a mix of tricky politics and the fact that such miner is currently the target of several claims.Chilean authorities accuse SQM of underpaying royalties, environmental violations and illicit political financing, which have ma...Read More