Thanksgiving week has been marked by abrupt moves and long-term trend changing moves in metals and energies. This has happened most of the time (not all of the time) over the past fifteen years. I will prefer to be cautious in metals, natural gas and the US dollar Index this week. Technicals are fine but one should see signs of a trend changing technically. Global stocks could sink once again...Read More
Iron ore prices largely picked up on Monday November 19, apart from those for higher grades, leading to a further narrowing of the spread between 65% Fe and 62% Fe indices.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $76.11 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $0.80 per tonne.MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $75.30 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $0.19 per tonne.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $79.80 per tonne cfr Qingdao,...Read More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday the draft Brexit deal reached with London was “fair and balanced”, as the bloc haggled with Britain over any extension to the envisaged transition period.Barnier told a news conference after briefing the 27 national EU ministers that they generally approved of the draft divorce agreement rea...Read More
(Reuters) - General Electric Co is bringing back former vice chairman John Rice to the conglomerate as chairman of its revamped gas power business, the company said on Monday.GE also named Scott Strazik chief executive officer of the business and Russell Stokes the CEO of the power portfolio unit.Strazik is currently the president of GE's power services business and Stokes the CEO the power busine...Read More
CIS export slab prices continued to decline in the week ended Monday November 19, spurred by the weakening in the finished flat steel sectors both in the CIS and in the global markets, Southeast Asia in particular."Slab prices don't seem to have any upward momentum due to weak markets for hot-rolled coil [HRC] worldwide," a buyer source in East Asia said. "If the HRC [market] doesn't improve, re-r...Read More
With the European financial system already extremely WEAK it was just announced that the FBI, SEC and FinCEN are now investigating a $150B money laundering operations out of the World's largest bank derivative holder....DEUTSCHE BANK! Hang on tight.Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his...Read More
Bill Holter returns for an economic update, and despite some good news and sunny musings from our President, Holter says there is upheaval coming that is beyond imagination. Holter notes that the annual payments on the national debt have surpassed $500 Billion and will soon eclipse national defense spending. And with the Fed continuing to raise interest rates, President Trump is quite right when h...Read More
"When the financial elites are dealing with hopeless situations, they will make decisions that they know are absolutely foolhardy, have no merit and no prospects for success long term."Rob Kirby is a financial commentator and former broker who worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. He also worked for 11 years at Prebon Yamane, an international inter-...Read More
CIS export billet prices continued to soften on Monday November 19 with lower bids and offers starting to be heard in the market, after the weakening of prices for imported scrap and exports of finished long steel in Turkey and the CIS.The downturn in the Asian billet market, amid lower offers and pessimism among buyers, created by the possibility of China's return to the export market, was anothe...Read More
A few hours ago BitChute received a notice that our PayPal account has been permanently limited, with immediate effect, and that we will no longer be able to accept or send payments.Continue...Read More
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) said it was ousting Chairman Carlos Ghosn for alleged financial misconduct and Japanese media reported he been arrested, a shocking fate for a leader hailed for rescuing the company from close to bankruptcy.The Japanese automaker said Ghosn’s alleged misconduct included personal use of company money and under-reporting how much he had been paid....Read More
Just days after taking back the House, a Democratic Congressmen has proposed outlawing "military-style semi-automatic assault weapons" and forcing existing owners Continue...Read More
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES - Toronto-based Nighthawk Gold completed almost 16,000 metres of drilling this summer at its Colomac gold project 220 km northwest of Yellowknife in the Indin Lake greenstone belt. The company says it continues to intersect broad zones of mineralization with higher grade centres.This year rather than focus on the northern half of the sill, Nighthawk tested several prospective...Read More
John and I have been talking for years about finally getting to the dreaded Minsky Moment, that time when an overly debt laden economy ceases to function. We've seen it in Venezuela and in Zimbabwe. Could it happen here? That's the huge question. We may not be Venezuela or Zimbabwe, we could easily see another financial crisis within the next few years. And based upon market behavior, states getti...Read More
YUKON - ATAC Resources of Vancouver continues to drill on that part of the Rackla gold project not optioned to Barrick, and has made high grade gold discovery at surface at the Osiris property.Two rotary air blast (RAB) holes 1,000 metres southwest of the Conrad zone and 800 metres east of the Ibis zone returned 1.5 metres of 3.05 g/t gold and 6.1 metres of 3.39 g/t.Step-out drilling at the Osiris...Read More
Bix Weir has 30 years' experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies. He is the creator of the "Road to Roota Theory" and his commentary is published at www.RoadtoRoota.com. Bix has dedicated his efforts over the last 15 years to exposing the long term manipulation of the gold and silver markets. He has worked closely with the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee helping to p...Read More
* Yuan ends onshore trading session at 6.9429 per dollar * Trump-Xi meeting at G20 remains in focus * China sold more U.S. Treasuries in October (Updated to onshore close, adds comments on U.S. Treasury data)By Noah SinHONG KONG, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The yuan dropped against thedollar on Monday as the United States kept up pressure on Chinain their bitter trade dispute and as expectations grew thatC...Read More
Investors with beaten-down gold/silver mining shares in their portfolio have three choices: Dump those losers for Continue...Read More
YUKON - Vancouver-based Golden Predator Mining reports that it has discovered an important new style of disseminated gold mineralization in the Sprogge area of its 3 Aces project. This is a potentially large gold bearing intrusive system not previous known at 3 Aces.A total of 27 shallow diamond drill holes tested six zones within a 1.4 by 1.0 km at Sprogge, and will be followed up next year. The...Read More
Superior Gold (TSXV: SGI; US-OTC: SUPGF) has announced results for 9,700 metres drilled across 51 holes aimed at expanding the reserves and resources at the Indian zone on its 100% owned Plutonic gold mine in Western Australia.The company currently has three diamond drills operating underground at the project. It has focused two on grade control and infill drilling and the third on resource and r...Read More