(Reuters) - Paints and coatings maker PPG Industries (PPG.N) said its board unanimously backed Michael McGarry as Chairman and CEO, in response to Nelson Peltz-owned Trian Fund Management’s call for his ouster.Peltz’s Trian Fund, which owns a 2.9 percent stake in PPG, had reportedly asked for the current CEO to be replaced by his predecessor, Charles Bunch, in a bid to improve performa...Read More
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-dealer broker of foreign exchange and interest rate products. He spent an additional year at another money/bond broker called Freedom Bond Brokers, then spent two years at Garban Inc.,...Read More
Iranian export billet and slab prices continued to decline in the week ended Wednesday October 24, but customers showed little interest in the material.Some customers refrained from booking Iranian materiel due to the United States sanctions."Customers [in the UAE] were signing documents confirming they will not buy anymore sanctioned material," a UAE-based trading source told Fastmarkets."Buyers...Read More
Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on Londo...Read More
Less than a year after B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: B2G) declared commercial production at its 80%-owned Fekola mine in southwestern Mali, the gold producer has updated the mine's resource estimate.Based on about 192,000 metres of exploration drilling in 928 holes, B2Gold estimates Fekola now contains 92.81 million indicated tonnes grading 1.92 grams gold per tonne for 5.73 million ounces of...Read More
Import prices for steel billet in Southeast Asia edged down on Thursday October 25 amid lower offers and lackluster domestic sales for finished steel.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for billet imported into Southeast Asia was $505-510 per tonne cfr Manila on Thursday, narrowing downward by $5 per tonne from $505-515 per tonne cfr on Wednesday.The assessment range declined from $510-515 per ton...Read More
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary’s Central European University, a graduate school founded by U.S. financier George Soros, said it was being forced out of the country by the nationalist government and would switch to enrolling new students in Vienna if it did not get guarantees of academic freedom by Dec. 1.The U.S. billionaire, who promotes liberal causes through his charities, has been the subj...Read More
Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.c...Peter Boockvar is the Chief Market Analyst with The Lindsey Group, a macro economic and market research firm founded by Larry Lindsey. He is also the Co-Chief Investment Officer for Bookmark Advisors, an asset management firm and a member of Advisory Services Network, LLC. Prior to joining The Lindsey Group, Peter spent a...Read More
Barrick Gold's (TSX, NYSE:ABX) executive chairman John Thornton said Thursday the company could sell its non-core assets, particularly copper ones, as a result of the merger with Randgold Resources (LON:RRS), a deal which is expected to happen in the first three months of 2019.Barrick and Randgold will focus on Tier 1 assets which produce 500,000 ounces of gold annually, have a mine life of more...Read More
Everyone wants to know whether this stock market sell-off is a buying opportunity or the first move in a long-term downtrend. Swiss investor Marc Faber joins Silver Doctors with a word of caution.Faber doubts the majority of stocks will make new highs. In the next two years, many investors will not make money in equities, he says. The Fed will likely try to prop up the market through more accommod...Read More
The Responsible Artisanal Gold Solutions Forum (Forum), with USAID and local partners, is proud to announce several milestones, including the first conflict-free artisanal gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) exported to U.S. jewelers.Forum member Sasha Lezhnev, Deputy Director of Policy at the Enough Project, said, "This gold proves that it is possible to source conflict-free, res...Read More
Goldcorp Inc. plunged to the lowest since 2002, the steepest decline among gold miners, after the company reported a bigger third-quarter loss than analysts had expected.The Vancouver-based miner posted a net loss of 12 cents a share, compared with the average analysts' estimate of 10 cents compiled by Bloomberg. Operating results were hurt by lower output of all metals from the company's Pe??asqu...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
Marin Katusa has worked directly with and financed many companies of well-known individuals in the resource industry and has become one of the most trusted and well connected dealmakers in the junior resource sector. During this time, he has become one of the most successful portfolio managers in the resource sector, such as his 2009 Fund Partnership (KC50 Fund, LLC) which has outperformed the com...Read More
Newmont Mining, (NYSE:NEM), the world's second largest gold miner by output, reported Thursday lower third-quarter profit and revenue as a result of weak prices for the precious metal and copper in the period.The Greenwood Village, Colorado-based company logged an adjusted profit of $175 million, or 33 cents per share, for the three months leading to September, compared with a profit of $184 mi...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The record numbers of women running for office in the United States this year are mostly Democrats, and their party is banking on their candidacies and a widening gender gap on key issues to achieve big wins in the Nov. 6 elections.Reuters/Ipsos polling two weeks ahead of Election Day showed Democrats with a 5-percentage-point lead over Republicans among likely voters in the...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized ecoanomist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. 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, BusinessWeek, Tim...Read More
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"This is an important day because Trident Juncture is NATO's biggest exercise since the end of the Cold War," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg stated before the drills.Continue...Read More
China's ferrous futures tanked in the early hours of morning trading on Thursday October 25 but regained some strength before the end of the session.Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange January rebar: 4,207 yuan ($606) per tonne, up 42 yuan per tonneJanuary hot rolled coil: 3,940 yuan per tonne, up 27 yuan per tonneDalian Commodity Exchange January iron ore: 532.50 yu...Read More