B2Gold's Fekola gold mine in Mali, West Africa. Source: B2Gold Corp.B2Gold Corp. [BTO-TSX, BTG-NYSE] on Thursday announced a better-than-expected resource estimate for its Fekola mine in Mali, West Africa. The Vancouver company also released positive results from a mill expansion study at the Fekola mine.The increased mineral resource and the positive results, to date, from the Fekola mill expan...Read More
Comex copper prices were little changed Thursday morning in the US with a stronger dollar capping any positive momentum. The copper price for December settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange inched up 0.10 cents to $2.7585 lb. "While we forecast a stronger copper price by the end of the year, the fragile macro backdrop poses downside risks to our outlook," Fastmar...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded Thursday after plunging more than 600 points in the previous session and wiping out its gains for the year. The Nasdaq's fall on Wednesday pushed it into correction territory.Tesla Inc. (TSLA) jumped 7.6% on Thursday after surprising Wall Street with a profit in its third quarter.Micros...Read More
Grupo Mexico, the largest Mexican miner, expects a surge in its production next year, mainly led by copper and zinc. The company is undertaking a huge expansion program that will raise its output of copper by almost 80% by 2025, to 1.8 million tonnes per year.The conglomerate owns assets in Mexico, Peru, Spain and the United States, and it produced 254,219 tonnes of copper in the third quarter of...Read More
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Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part under pressure during morning trading on Thursday October 25, with the complex down by an average of 0.2%. Poor US new home sales data on Wednesday and weakness in equity markets are weighing on market sentiment.Copper leads the weakness with a decline of 0.8% as at 07:39am London time, with aluminium, zinc and tin...Read More
* Falling stock markets spur interest in gold * Wall Street suffered worst one-day fall since 2011 * ECB keeps policy unchanged even as growth wanes * Palladium moves away from Tuesday's record high (Updates prices, adds details)By Swati VermaBENGALURU, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Gold edged lower on Thursday,with some investors taking advantage of a recent surge in pricesto lock in profits.Spot gold was d...Read More
BEIJING (Reuters) - China finds it “hard to understand” why the United States is not sending senior government officials to a major import expo in Shanghai next month, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.The world’s two biggest economies are locked in an escalating tariff row, with President Donald Trump having railed against China for what he sees as intellectual property thef...Read More
VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. reported a profit of $1.3 billion in its third quarter, boosted by the sale of the Waneta Dam.The miner says the profit amounted to $2.23 per share for the three months ended Sept. 30, compared with $584 million or $1.01 per share a year ago.Revenue totalled $3.2 billion, up from $3.1 billion.On an adjusted basis, Teck says it earned 81 cents per share for the quart...Read More
TORONTO - Barrick Gold Corp. says it's in talks with partners in China and Saudi Arabia on potential deals involving its copper assets as it looks ahead to its acquisition of Randgold Resources and an increased focus on African gold mines.Company chairman John Thornton said on a conference call that its copper assets are of high interest to the partners who may want to build serious copper compa...Read More
MADISON, Wisconsin/ST. CLAUDE, Manitoba (Reuters) - Minnesota farmer Paul Fritsche can no longer afford health insurance as he struggles to sustain a dairy farm that has been in his family for nearly a century.With U.S. milk prices in the fourth year of a slump due to chronic oversupply, Fritsche, 58, is unsure whether he will be able to pass his 30-cow farm onto his sons and grandsons.“Do y...Read More
(Kitco News)- The European CentralBank left interest rates unchanged Thursday and continued to say it will endits monthly asset purchases at the end of the year.The central bank’s GoverningCouncil left the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and theinterest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility at 0.00%,0.25% and minus 0.40%, respectively.“The Gov...Read More
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities discovered another wave of suspicious packages on Thursday targeting high-profile Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump as a manhunt intensified for a serial bomber less than two weeks ahead of elections.None of the nine devices went off and no injuries were reported, but some top Democrats called the threats a symptom of a coarsening bran...Read More
The Thursday Market Minute Global stocks were a sea of red overnight, with the broadest Asia benchmark falling more than 2% to within touching distance of bear market territory and the Nikkei 225 slumping to a six-month low after last night's Wall Street meltdown.European stocks open with heavy selling, but a busy earnings slate provides some support ahead of today's European Central Bank meetin...Read More
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Japan should safeguard free trade and anchor global growth, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday, as Japan’s prime minister arrived in Beijing on a visit against a backdrop of trade friction with the United States.Shinzo Abe’s three-day visit is expected to carve out new scope for cooperation between Asia’s two biggest economies. It is also ex...Read More
The market crashed again yesterday.This time with the Dow shedding more than 600 points and the Nasdaq more than 300 points.Make no mistake, it was a bloodbath.But while most investors were running to sell in an effort to avoid even bigger losses, I sent out the following email to members of my Green Chip Stocks community:That's right.Yesterday afternoon, we sold half of our position in a small ph...Read More
The latest metal markets news and price moves to start the North American day on Thursday October 25.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed during morning trading on Thursday October 25, with bearish third-quarter earnings reports prompting sharp sell-offs in the Asian and European equity markets, while global trade tensions are deterring commodity investment.Edging lower over...Read More
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government will release a regular fall budget update on Nov. 21, the finance minister said on Thursday, less than a year before the next national election.Bill Morneau made the announcement on Twitter without giving any details.Reporting by Steve Scherer; Editing by Sandra Maler Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those o...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-dipped galvanized (HDG) coil have fallen in Southern Europe over the past week due to slow trading, sources told Fastmarkets MB. Buyers have been mainly holding back from making purchases in anticipation of a clearer market trend. Mills are expected to negotiate their next long-term contracts with big buyers in the automotive sector by the end of this month, and spot buyers...Read More
China's export prices for hot-rolled coil weakened on Thursday October 25 even though the domestic market was largely stable, with participants expecting more downside for the product amid rising supply and weak demand.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,170-4,190 yuan ($601-604) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Tianjin): 4,080-4,100 yuan per tonne, unchangedMost transactions in Shanghai were c...Read More