* Plans to modestly increase holdings of JGBs after Y700 blnbuy * To shift from Treasuries to U.S. corp bonds, euro debt * Plan to raise holdings of foreign bonds without FX-hedging * Plans to increase holdings of foreign stocks, including PE (Adds details)By Tomo UetakeTOKYO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Nippon Life Insurance Co plans to modestly increase its holdings of Japanesegovernment bonds in the six...Read More
South Korea continued to purchase heavy melting scrap this week on stable demand from a major steel mill.A 20,000-tonne cargo of HMS 1&2 (80:20) quality from New Zealand was transacted at $354 per tonne cfr South Korea this week, market sources said.Demand from South Korea has been regular in recent weeks, with South Korean steel mills entering the spot market again after bellwether Turkish import...Read More
10 years after the 2008 crisis the world's largest bank derivative holder STILL cannot recover. Deutsche Bank is down 5% on the news that they have missed guidance once again...will this be the Final Straw?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...Read More
Many minings stocks are undervalued more than they have been in the last 78 years, Fund Manager David Kranzler says. Trump may end up appointing 6 of the 7 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Does this count as politicization of the Fed? The Fed has been politicized for a long time, Kranzler says.Dave Kranzler spent many years working in various Wall Street jobs. After business school, he p...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWee...Read More
Turkey produced 27.981 million tonnes of crude steel in January-September 2018, a 0.86% increase on the 27.742 million tonnes produced in the corresponding period in 2017, according to the Turkish Steel Producers Association (T???oeD). In September, crude steel production was 2.80 million tonnes, a 5.90% year-on-year fall. The country produced 9.416 million tonnes of slab in January-September, up...Read More
Discussed in this interview:03:06 David Morgan's reaction to the Nixon Shock of 1971.06:31 Chances for the return of the Gold Standard.10:08 Stock market exuberance a mirage?12:07 More debt today than in 2008.17:46 Bottom priced in for silver price?22:11 Commercials now long in silver.27:09 $100 silver still on the table?30:07 What if we are on a Silver Standard?33:28 View on cryptocurrencies.35:4...Read More
"We are told how everything is great, and we are in a global recovery. There is no global recovery. We reflated a debt bubble around the world. You can't borrow your way into prosperity anywhere. This is what the illusion is and that is everything is okay, but it's not."Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before...Read More
Barrick Gold Corp, which has agreed to a $6.1 billion deal to acquire Randgold Resources Ltd, reported a drop in third-quarter adjusted profit and revenue on Wednesday, hit by lower prices for gold and copper alongside higher fuel costs.As it readies for a November shareholder vote on its no-premium, all-stock transaction with African miner Randgold, Barrick made some modest changes to forecasts.B...Read More
On a flight to Brasilia last year, Jair Bolsonaro's carry-on bag contained little more than two small chunks of metal mined in Brazil: One was graphene, used in solar cells; the other niobium, which strengthens steel.At the time, he said he hoped to display them in a TV interview, evidence of the promise mining holds for Brazil's struggling economy. While some of the former Army captain's ideas ha...Read More
CAPE TOWN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Mali's first independent power project - a 122 million euro ($139.06 million), 90-megawatt diesel plant - will go online next week in the country's gold-rich southwest, a board member of the operator said on Wednesday.The new plant could spur more of the foreign investment Mali has struggled to attract since Islamist militants seized the desert north in 2012.French fo...Read More
Much of the American public despises mainstream corporate media, but rather than engage in some self-reflection and admit failure they just complain about Continue...Read More
Newcrest Mining Ltd, Australia's largest independent gold miner, said on Wednesday that gold production rose 5 percent in the first quarter from the year-ago period, led by a sharp increase at its flagship Cadia mine.Production rose to 548,351 ounces for the quarter ended Sept. 30 from 522,917 ounces a year ago. This was less than the UBS forecast of 619,000 ounces, and below the 634,950 ounces in...Read More
RNC Minerals (TSX: RNX) announced a record quarterly gold production of 31,360 mined gold ounces in the third quarter of 2018.According to the Toronto-based company, such production represents a 199% increase when compared to the third quarter of 2017 and a 135% increase when compared to the second quarter of 2018.The Toronto-based miner also reported that gold production for the first nine months...Read More
Mobarakeh Steel, the largest steelmaker in the Middle East-North Africa region, does not expect the new United States sanctions to affect its production, financial activities and exports.On October 16, Mobarakeh Steel - along with a number of other Iranian companies - was added to the list of sanctioned entities by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)."Mobarakeh Steel Company... is used...Read More
For the past few years, homeowners just about everywhere have been able to finesse life's problems by thinking "at least my house is going up." This home equity accretion Continue...Read More
Up to $5 billion worth of mining assets may be offloaded as a result of the merger between Barrick Gold (TSX, NYSE:ABX) and Randgold Resources (LON:RRS), expected to happen in the first three months of 2019.According to BMO Capital Markets analyst Andrew Kaip, it is almost certain that the New Barrick will sell a number of non-core assets to position the company as the lowest cost western-based g...Read More
Canadian miners Pan American Silver (TSX: PAAS) and Canasil Resources (TSX:CLZ) signed a non-binding Letter of Intent providing for Pan American to acquire Canasil's interest in the Sandra-Escobar project in Durango, Mexico.The LOI provides for the parties to enter into a Definitive Agreement covering the acquisition of Canasil's interest by Pan American for a payment of CDN $2 million and grant o...Read More
TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:01:20 The material problem of interest rates03:35 FED policy impacting the geopolitical chess board08:25 Slow, deep global market correction - has it begun?09:35 NATO Vs Russia, how does it begin and end?14:05 What pushes us into war and the timeline to Armageddon18:25 Where to find Alex Dvorkin and Market SpartansRead More
Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) said Wednesday that copper output for the first nine months of the year fell 4 percent, but it forecast an increase in production in 2019 as grades begin to improve at its operations.The company, majority-owned by Chile's Luksic family, one of the country's wealthiest, said year-to-date copper production declined to 505,500 tonnes, from 526,500 tonnes in...Read More