Stop providing billions of dollars to Afghan security forces if those forces are sexually abusing young boys. Seems like a pretty reasonable idea... and yet that effort was blocked in the U.S. Senate.Who would continue to provide billions of dollars to security forces when it has been proven that those forces keep young boys as sex slaves?Read More
(Reuters) - A package containing what appeared to be an explosive device was found in a mail box outside the New York residence of billionaire financier George Soros on Monday, police said.Soros, one of the world’s biggest donors to liberal groups and causes, has become a hate figure for right-wing campaigners in the United States and eastern Europe, and the target of a hostile media campaig...Read More
Drilling at Nighthawk Gold's (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) Treasure Island project, about 11 km to the north of its Colomac project in the Northwest Territories, has served up significant, shallow high-grade mineralization.The company was following up on several shallow high-grade gold intersections it had reported in 2011, and in the process has found new near-surface discoveries including a number...Read More
Continue...Stephen S. Roach, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm's chief economist, is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale's School of Management. He the author, most recently, of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China and Stephen Roach on the Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalizatio...Read More
In February, B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO; NYSE: BTG) announced an initial open-pit inferred resource for the newly discovered El Limon Central zone at its El Limon mine in Nicaragua.This week the gold producer announced the results of an expansion study that evaluated the life-of-mine options for combining El Limon's remaining underground inferred resource (17 million ounces of gold) with the new infe...Read More
Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Brien Lundin, the president of Jefferson Financial, helping to protect your world.Please tell us about Jefferson Financial and what type of services you provide.Brien Lundin: We are essentially a provider of investment information. We publish Gold Newsletter, which is the oldest precious metals advisory in the world, having been started by Jim...Read More
Barrick Gold Corp. favors taking back control of its separately listed Tanzanian assets after completing its takeover of Africa-focused rival Randgold Resources Ltd., according to people familiar with the situation.Barrick spun off those assets in 2010 into a company now called Acacia Mining Plc. That unit - listed in London but majority owned by Barrick - has been dogged by operational setbacks...Read More
The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul hasn't stopped the kingdom in signing $50 billion worth of dealsContinue...Read More
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday affirmed a verdict against Bayer AG unit Monsanto that found its glyphosate-based weed-killers responsible for a man’s terminal cancer, sending the German company’s shares down 8 percent.In a ruling by San Francisco’s Superior Court of California, Judge Suzanne Bolanos said she would slash the punitive damages award to $39 million from $250 mill...Read More
Shares in Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), the world's no.1 heavy machinery maker, fell more than 7% in pre-market trading Tuesday, despite the company beating earnings estimates for the tenth time in a row.The stock lost as much as $9.76 by 8:48 a.m. EST, dropping to $118.95, after closing at $128.71 on Monday, the lowest so far this year. The drop followed the mining and construction equipment manufact...Read More
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Canada's IAMGOLD Corp. (TSX IMG), (NYSE: IAG) plans to apply for a mining concession before year-end after releasing a robust feasibility study for its near-2 million ounce Boto gold exploration project in Senegal.President and CEO Steve Letwin said while a final investment decision on the $254-million project was yet to be made, Boto represented a "high-value" one, which would add to the company'...Read More
One day after Italy responded to the EU's critical reception of Rome's budget proposal, all eyes were back on Brussels which some feared may implement the unprecedented Continue...Read More
London-listed explorer Greatland Gold (LON:GGP) has detected copper, silver, gold and pathfinder elements at its Scallywag target of the company's Paterson project in Western Australia.The sampling results, said Greatland on Tuesday, reinforce the potential of both precious metals and copper mineralization at the site, located within its Havieron licence.Copper, silver and gold detected in the fi...Read More
The recent gain in gold's price has sparked a return to the physical gold market of Continue...Read More
Gold rallied on Tuesday, hitting a three-month high and trading above the key $1,240 an ounce levelContinue...Read More
(Adds shares, details, background)STOCKHOLM, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Sweden's Sandvik said on Tuesday order intake had improved significantly andbroadly with stable activity also seen in an automotive industryhit by recent wobbles as it posted quarterly core earnings justahead of forecast.Worries over slowing global growth has hit the industrialstocks in recent months in the wake of weakening purchasin...Read More
ANKARA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party will notform an alliance with the nationalist party for the 2019 localelections, but cooperation between the two parties willcontinue, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, after thenationalists pulled out of the alliance earlier.Erdogan's AK Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)formed an alliance ahead of June elections, but have si...Read More
Brazilian steelmakers were dissuaded from trying to impose further price rises in the domestic market, because of falling Chinese prices and a stronger exchange rate for Brazil's Real, the president of national distributors' association Inda, Carlos Loureiro, said on Tuesday October 23.Flat-steel maker Usiminas, for example, had planned a 5% rise for November, according to Loureiro, "[but] this is...Read More
(Adds LNG imports data, background)BEIJING, Oct 23 (Reuters) - China's September diesel andgasoline exports fell sharply from August as robust domesticdemand curbed overseas shipments.Gasoline exports were 730,000 tonnes last month, the lowestsince the same month a year ago when shipments were 568,000tonnes, data from the General Administration of Customs showedon Tuesday.Diesel exports in Septemb...Read More