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

Operating results were hurt by lower output of all metals from the company's Pe??asquito mine, while costs climbed.Read full newsRead More

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Investing.com - Gold prices gained on Friday as Asian stocks traded mostly lower after China reported disappointing third-quarter GDP data.Gold futures for December delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange slipped 0.08% at?EUR?$1,226.4?EUR?a troy ounce by 1:19 AM ET (05:19 GMT).China’s economy grew 6.5% in the third quarter from a year earlier, its weakest pace sinc...Read More

Investing.com - Gold prices were flat on Thursday as investors paused to digest the latest meeting minutes from the Federal Reserve.Comex gold futures for December delivery inched up 0.06% to $1,228.10 a troy ounce as of 8:02 AM ET (12:02 GMT).The hawkish Fed minutes showed that while the central bank had some doubts about the economy, it still planned to gradually increase interest rates in Decem...Read More

Silver remains a prime target for mineral explorers and miners, particularly those active in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Here is a look at five silver-focused companies plus a palladium producer.BEAR CREEK MININGBear Creek Mining (TSXV: BCM; US-OTC: BCEKF) has long been active in silver exploration and development in southern Peru.The Vancouver-based junior describes its flagship, w...Read More

There isn't much at the proposed mine site right now: just a long airstrip, with clusters of sturdy buildings in the middle of green mountains close to the Middle Kuskokwim River. But if completed, the Donlin gold mine would be one of the biggest in the world. Listen nowRead full newsRead More

Investing.com - Gold prices were lower on Friday as the greenback recovered from a two-week low as inflation pressures eased.Comex gold futures for December delivery fell 0.39% to $1,222.80 a troy ounce as of 8:58 AM ET (12:58 GMT), after recording its largest daily percentage gain on Thursday since June 2016 amid a selloff in equities.Cooling inflation data and rate hike expectations lead to a ri...Read More

Investing.com - Gold prices extended gains on Thursday on safe-haven demand after global markets tumbled. A weaker dollar was also cited as supportive.Gold futures for December delivery were up $3.30, or 0.3%, at $1,196.8 a troy ounce by 1:20AM ET (05:20 GMT). “Investors might start to look for alternative investments to equities, as factors such as high country debt levels and emerging infl...Read More

Let's discuss what happened in Alaska last week when President Donald Trump met with Russin President Vladimir Putin. The encounter was brief, productive and historic, although one might not realize it based on conventional, ill-informed Western media coverage. Unsurprisingly, most Western media botched their coverage, although for many outlets that is exactly their mission.It helps to know what t...Read More

Stocks are priced at valuations near the 2000 dot-com extremes.Hot tech IPOs like Circle are doubling and tripling on day 1.Home prices have soared to unaffordable levels.Meme coins and meme stocks are back in vogue.Sports-betting is red hot, with the latest trend being 10-leg parlays with a (tiny) chance to pay off 100x+.Trading on margin (leverage) has reached new records.Speculation is the new...Read More

According to the July Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, prices rose by 2.7 percent over the past year, and by 3.1 percent when the "volatile" food and housing sectors are removed from the calculation.Markets rose following the release of the CPI since the increase in price inflation was not as high as expected. This led to an increase in expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rat...Read More

Around the U.S., new data centers are sprouting up like weeds.These data centers feed fast-growing demand for AI products and services.We have plentiful access to the NVIDIA chips which power cutting-edge AI applications.The bottleneck is now power generation. There's not nearly enough juice to go around.For example, Elon Musk's xAI recently built their massive Colossus data center near Memphis, T...Read More

Tomorrow, President Trump will finally meet face-to-face with President Putin.The summit will take place in Anchorage, Alaska, as covered in detail by our friend Byron King earlier this week.President Trump has stated that his primary goal is to reach a ceasefire agreement. If an agreement isn't reached, Trump told reporters that Russia would face "severe consequences". He is likely referring to f...Read More

By now, you've all heard about the tragic incident in Florida last week, where illegal immigrant Harjinder Singh pulled an illegal u-turn in the 18-wheeler he was driving.A minivan with 3 people inside was forced to crash into Singh's trailer and everyone aboard was killed instantly.A dash camera recorded the entire crash, and Singh's cold reaction set the internet ablaze. The driver reacted as if...Read More

It's Assumption Day. And it's hot.Every group is entitled to its own fantasies…its vanities and its lunacies. They are condensed in slogan form, easy for the masses to remember.'Free the Holy Land' was popular for generations. 'Make the World Safe for Democracy' fizzled out fast. As did the 'Thousand Year Reich.'Europe has now settled on 'global climate change' as its cause celebre. Its numb...Read More

In the 1990s, Cisco was the hottest stock in the world. It gained a remarkable 89,000% throughout the decade.Cisco shares peaked in March of 2000 at a $550 billion market cap. That year the company made a $2.7 billion profit. That would give CSCO a P/E ratio of around 200x at its peak.The prices investors were willing to pay for tech growth brought the entire stock market to bubbilicious levels. I...Read More

The largest gold miner ETF (GDX) is up an impressive 63% so far in 2025.Yet strangely, investors in the fund have been selling aggressively. So far this year they've sold $3.5 billion worth of GDX shares on net.We can track this via ETF.com's fund flows tool:Source: ETF.comAs you can see by the red bars on the chart, investors have been steadily selling shares of GDX all year. There have only been...Read More

Jerome Powell doesn't like to surprise the markets. That much we know. The man's a lawyer, not a cowboy. He's not Volcker puffing cigars and shoving rates into the stratosphere. He's not Greenspan mumbling gibberish while the markets hang on every syllable. He's not even Bernanke, that academic deer frozen in the headlights of the 2008 crisis.No, Powell is more like a risk-averse corporate counsel...Read More

For decades, the Ivy League has been treated as a sort of financial Olympus an elite club where money flows like vintage Bordeaux and the only financial hardship is deciding which fund manager gets to manage the latest billion-dollar donation.Harvard, Yale, Princeton... the names alone conjure images of investment portfolios so dense they have their own gravitational pullBut here's the inconvenien...Read More

Last week President Trump made a big move in the currency wars.He appointed Stephen Miran, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, to a vacated seat on the Fed's Board of Governors.I'm going to pull together some important threads. I'll also speculate about what Trump's plans for remaking the Fed might mean for international trade, and how Miran can assist.This could translate into a...Read More