"Lipper U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Money Market Funds Drive Overall Net Inflows For The Third Straight Week https://t.co/PxBJHLJkdn"Read full newsRead More
A gold rush in Peru's Tambopata province transformed the Amazonian wilderness into a desert pocked with dead trees and toxic pools. Security forces came and went; illegal miners scattered and returned. Then Peru announced a new approach, to stay. (May 16)Read full newsRead More
Precious metals declined for the week as investors with risky appetites lost interest in the metals' safe haven nature.Read full newsRead More
Nutrien (TSX:NTR)(NYSE:NTR) is among the largest fertilizer companies in the world. With a market cap of $39 billion, it’s a TSX 60 component and a major supplier to emerging markets.Recently, there has been some optimism toward Nutrien owing to the growing demand for its products in China and India. Combined, these markets make up 40% of the company’s total sales. As they continue to...Read More
Human rights group Kap?(C)-Kap?(C) denounced this week that illegal mining continues to destroy the traditional territory of the Pem??n Indigenous tribe in southeastern Venezuela.The civil society association issued a media statement this week saying that unregulated gold extraction is polluting the Carrao river and its tributaries within the Canaima National Park, in the Bol?-var state.This is th...Read More
Martin Elvis, senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, and Tony Milligan, a philosopher at King's College London, collaborated on a study that concludes that humans should be allowed to mine only one-eighth of eligible planets, moons and asteroids, leaving 85% of the solar system untouched.As companies get closer to developing technologies that allow them to...Read More
The possibility of an oversupply of lithium chemical is a myth, the president of California-based Global Lithium, Joe Lowry, said this week.Addressing the audience at the conference Paydirt 2019 Latin America Downunder, Lowry blamed the spread of such a 'myth' on 'big bank' analysts and the Chilean regulator CORFO.In Lowry's view, there have been misunderstandings regarding CORFO's reports related...Read More
There are many different methods for investing in gold, as we have outlined previously.Gold streaming and royalty companies are a unique investment. They offer a distinct set of advantages and disadvantages in their exposure to gold.First, it should be noted that there is a difference between streaming and royalty stocks, but their underlying exposure to gold is similar.Before we get into the spec...Read More
The swing back into contango in the nearby aluminium forward curve on the London Metal Exchange triggered the cancellation of more than 90,000 tonnes of aluminium in LME-bonded warehouses this week.Almost 45,000 tonnes of material were freshly canceled on Friday May 17, predominantly out of registered warehouses in Johor and Singapore. More than 30,000 tonnes were canceled across the same location...Read More
The financing has been increased from $9 million and will now comprise the purchase of 12.5 million flow-through shares priced at 40c and 12.1 million charity flow-through shares priced at 49.5c."We are very pleased to be able to raise additional capital which will allow us to expand our ongoing exploration activities," said president and CEO Dr. Michael Byron.The gross proceeds will be used for e...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday May 17 that are worth another look.The United States will give a 180-day window to its auto trading partners to reduce imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts, essentially delaying potential Section 232 tariffs on these products, the White House said on Friday May 17. On the same day, US President Donald Trump an...Read More
The global billet market saw an improvement in sentiment in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Middle East-North Africa region after the United States reduced its steel import duties against Turkey.The US lowered its tariffs on steel imports from Turkey to 25% from 50%, effective Friday May 17.This immediately sent import scrap prices up in Turkey as Turkish steel producers resumed the...Read More
In 2009, Al Gore forecast that there would be no ice by 2013. The BBC reported those crazy forecasts back in 2007. I have explained many times that the Continue...Read More
"This is not something that came down from the White House. This was something that came out of the agencies."Continue...Read More
Peru must shake up its electoral system and root out graft before the 2021 election to restore faith in its political leadership following the country's biggest-ever bribery scandal, President Martin Vizcarra said.The government is urging the opposition-controlled Congress to debate a series of bills with new rules on campaign financing and selecting candidates. Congress has little more than a yea...Read More
Human rights group Kap?(C)-Kap?(C) denounced this week that illegal mining continues to destroy the traditional territory of the Pem??n Indigenous tribe in southeastern Venezuela.The civil society association issued a media statement this week saying that unregulated gold extraction is polluting the Carrao river and its tributaries within the Canaima National Park, in the Bol?-var state.This is th...Read More
How you can transform lagging indicators into leading indicators.No one ever said trading was going to be easy.Sometimes, do-it-yourself investing can feel about as scientific as throwing darts... and many traders give up, unable to figure out how they can break through the endless cycles of mediocre - or even straight up abysmal! - results.And when even the supposed "market gurus" or "experts" do...Read More
A financial re-set could lead to the biggest political event in decades.The American financial system may be headed towards a crisis, unlike anything the U.S. has seen in the last 50 yearsOne financial guru is predicting a political event that could "reset" the financial system in ways that many Americans will never predict -- and it could lead to "a national nightmare."With growing inequality cau...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday May 17 that are worth another look.The United States will give a 180-day window to its auto trading partners to reduce imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts, essentially delaying potential Section 232 tariffs on these products, the White House said on Friday May 17. On the same day, US President Donald Trump an...Read More
The United States has lowered its tariffs on steel imports from Turkey to 25%, from the previous 50%, effective Friday May 17.The move reverses a decision by US President Donald Trump in August last year to impose higher tariffs on US imports of Turkish aluminium and steel amid an escalation in tensions between the two countries.Turkey exported 6 tonnes of hot-rolled coil under HS code 7208 to the...Read More