The major silver minershave rallied higher on balance in recent months, enjoying a young upleg. That’s a welcome change after they suffered amiserable 2018. Times are tough for silverminers, since silver’s prices have languished near extreme lows relative togold. That has forced many traditionalsilver miners to increasingly diversify into gold. The major silver...Read More
Do you want to protect your capital against recession? Great, just like us and millions of other people. The key questions is, thus, how to predict that the danger is coming. We invite you to read our today’s article and find out what are key recession indicators – and their relationship with the price of gold. Do you want to protect your capital against recession? Great, just like us...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
Our research team, at Technical Traders Ltd., has been all over the precious metals markets for the past 16+ months. We’ve been so deep into research and study with regards to price action and technical/fundamental data, that we’ve been able to call market moves many months in advance.Recently, over the past few months, we’ve been warning that an April 21~24 date is likely...Read More
Okay, now I am getting geeked out. One of the most fun and rare times in what I do is when something big happens that I feel in my gut means something, but about which I am not able to come forth with a ready explanation of the meaning (without sounding like a know-it-all blowhard). It’s time to put the thinking cap on and to reference my wealth of experience (that’s another way of say...Read More
The U.S. yield curve extended its inversion. Everyone and their brother knows that recession must definitely be on the horizon. We are all doomed, so gold can only go up now, right? Yield Curve Inversion Gets LargerIt’s getting more serious. On Friday, the yield curve inverted. This week, the spread between long-term and short-term rates has not only remained below zero, but it has dived fur...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday April 17 that are worth another look.Precious metals prices would support zinc and lead mining even if the global markets crashed, including those for base metals, panelists said at Fastmarkets' International Lead & Zinc Conference in London on Tuesday April 16. Copper's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange...Read More
Recently, we warned that Natural Gas may set up another opportunity for traders to buy into a support zone below $2.70 with a selling range near or above $3.00. Our upside target zone is between $3.25 and $3.45. The price of Natural Gas has recently fallen below $2.69 and we believe this could be the start of a setup for skilled traders to identify key buying opportunity in preparation...Read More
A summary of London Metal Exchange warrant premiums from across the globe for the week to Wednesday April 17.Please click...Read More
A Perfect Storm ishitting the Gold market, with an internal factor (QE), an external factor (SGE),and a systemic factor (Basel). All three forces are positive in releasing Gold from the corruptclutches of the Anglo-American banker organization. The East has an all-out blitz to ditch the USDollar and to adopt the Gold Standard in its early form, namely trade payment.In the last ten years since the...Read More
Maybe you have some gold (and silver) butnot enough. Maybe you haven't added to your stash for quite awhile, and youkinda' forgot why you bought it in the first place. Or perhaps you don't own any preciousmetals at all!If one of these circumstances fits you,then it's time to refresh your memory on the multiple reasons why you should owngold, assess your risk profile and unique financial...Read More
Power Ore has completed the digitization and geological model for the Opemiska copper complex near the town of Chapais in the Canadian province of Quebec. Based on all available drilling data, it has confirmed the distribution of disseminated material around the known veins. There is also widespread disseminated mineralization near the contact with underlying rhyolite.Power Ore says the new geolog...Read More
Katanga Mining Ltd, a unit of Glencore Plc, on Wednesday named Glencore Coal's chief development officer Jeff Gerard to the top job, taking over from Danny Callow.Gerard will take over on May 2 and will also serve as the head of Glencore's assets in the Democratic Republic Of Congo and oversee its Mutanda mining operation in the country.(Reporting by Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koy...Read More
Since last spring we’ve written over and over again about a Fed rate cut being the catalyst for a bull move in gold stocks. The history is almost bulletproof. Many lows in gold stocks over the past 60 years coincided with the end of rate hikes.At present the Federal Reserve is in pause mode and the market is on the cusp of pricing in a rate cut. Friday, Fed funds futures showed a 56% chance...Read More
The price of copper jumped on Wednesday after upbeat industrial activity data from China, consumer of half the world's industrial metals, provided evidence that Beijing's stimulus program is finally filtering through to the real economy.Copper for delivery in May added more than 2% to touch a high of $2.9955 per pound ($6,604 per tonne) on the Comex market in New York. It's the highest level since...Read More
The joint venture - Copper Fox 25% and Teck Resources 75% owned - continues to move forward with work at the Schaft Creek advanced exploration project. Located 375 km northwest of Smithers, the property is a potential producer of copper, gold and molybdenum.An in-depth conceptual study has begun to follow up on last year's sizing and infrastructure alternatives. The project is also being de-risked...Read More
Morocco's leading mining firm Managem said it is considering raising 200 million dollars through sales of non-convertible bonds with a maturity of up to 7 years to fund its development plans.The terms of the issuance will have to be approved by its general assembly on May 6, Managem said in a statement.Last month, the group reported a 16 percent drop in 2018 revenue to 4.35 billion dirhams ($454.5...Read More
Lumina Copper has halted operations at its Caserones mine, in Chile's northern Atacama region, following the death of one of its contractors.The company, majority-owned by Japan's top smelter, JX Nippon Mining & Metals, in conjunction with fellow miners Mitsui Mining and Mitsui Co., said the fatal accident happened on Tuesday afternoon outside the truck shop.Lumina noted the cause of the accident...Read More
The lead price could rebound above $2,000 per tonne and even touch $2,100 per tonne in the next six months because it is oversold and supply and demand conditions remain tight this year, Macquarie bank said on Tuesday April 16. "The recent decline in the lead price is overdone and was on the back of a large re-warranting in Asia rather than a change in fundamentals," Macquarie metals strategist Vi...Read More
The Comex copper market jumped up in US morning trading on Wednesday April 17 amid positive reaction to a combination of better-than-expected Chinese economic news and a softer dollar.The copper price for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange surged 5.95 cents to $2.99 per lb. At last glance, the dollar index was at 96.95, down 0.16% and just below the psychologi...Read More