Mar. 1st, 2019(S14-E685)Featured GuestsProf. Burton Malkiel& Bill MurphyPlease Listen HereFormer NFL player Bill Murphy of GATA.org returns with commentary on the stunning advance in palladium. The former industrial metal has an inversion of the typical market dynamics, eclipsing the precious metals king. The host proposes a chief factor sending Palladium higher while gold and platinum remai...Read More

By: SRSrocco If you're puzzled by the magnitude of the stock market correction since late December, you can thank the central banks for the rally. Yes, that's correct... after the Dow Jones suffered the worst Christmas Eve trading day ever, the massive central bank monetary liquidity helped push the index up 20% from its low over the next two months. Of course, the markets were due for a r...Read More

Infested with CrawdadsNot ApplaudingSteadily More Dovish#3 MandatePuerto Rico, Cleveland, New York, Cleveland, Austin, and DallasIn an ideal world, we wouldn't have to read the Federal Reserve's rabbit entrails to discern the economy. But Since the Fed exists in the real world, and its decisions matter, we have to pay attention.Just so new and perhaps even old readers know my views on the Fed: I...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday March 1 that are worth another look.Copper-starved London Metal Exchange warehouses could receive a long-awaited influx of metal from an unexpected source, Fastmarkets has learned. The LME has released its pricing procedures and methodologies for the scheduled release of its cash-settled futures contracts on March 11, h...Read More

Gold is headed for a test of the 23.6% Fibo retracement of the mid-August swing lows to recent swing highs. Bears are testing below the ascending channel's support.  Gold is trading at $1,314/oz, down from the day's highs of $1,327/oz having printed a daily low of $1,313.11oz.  Gold prices have been steadily declining since last week's highs of $1,343/oz and has&n...Read More

Copper stocks at Shanghai-bonded warehouses rose for a fourth consecutive month in February due to sustained import losses between London and Shanghai, causing the bonded copper warrant premium to slide to its lowest level since May 2017. Zinc stocks in the Shanghai-bonded zone recorded another sharp month-on-month increase in February on the expectation of an uptick in domestic demand, while nick...Read More

Gold prices have pulled back from a 10-month high in recent sessions, leaving investors wondering why the many geopolitical and economic issues plaguing the market haven't been able to fully support the metal's haven appeal. Gold notched that multimonth peak just over a week ago on the back of uncertainty linked to Brexit, the U.S.-China trade dispute, and global economic growth. But prices on Thu...Read More

Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, is expected to generate $13.9 billion in revenue in 2019 while operating costs would be of $9.9 billion. This is according to the budget approved by the Finance Ministry's Budget Directorate.Local newspaper La Tercera reported that following a mandatory annual review of all state-owned companies, the Directorate estimated that Codelco's earnings...Read More

For the second year in a row, mineral and coal exploration expenditure in British Columbia increased in 2018.This is according to the British Columbia Mineral and Coal Exploration Survey carried out by the provincial Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, the Association for Mineral Exploration and Ernst & Young.After collecting insights from nearly 300 exploration projects across BC,...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday March 1 that are worth another look.Copper-starved London Metal Exchange warehouses could receive a long-awaited influx of metal from an unexpected source, Fastmarkets has learned. The LME has released its pricing procedures and methodologies for the scheduled release of its cash-settled futures contracts on March 11, h...Read More

RAPAPORT... The president of Botswana has repudiated claims that thecountry planned to loan Zimbabwe $600 million to support its diamond industry and private sector. Last week, Zimbabwe's media quoted its secretary of foreign affairs and international trade as saying Botswana hadoffered the country $500 million to fund facilities for its diamond industry,and another $100 million for local pri...Read More

RAPAPORT... Diamcor saw a significant sales jump in the third fiscal quarter asproduction increased at its mine in South Africa. Revenue surged 76% to $1.4 million in the three monthsending December 31 2018, compared to $864,546 in the same period in 2017, the minerreported Friday. The company recorded a net loss of CAD 861,883 ($648,222) - down from a deficit of CAD 1.1 million ($825,36...Read More

RAPAPORT... World Diamond Council (WDC) president Stephane Fischler hasurged the Kimberley Process (KP) to implement changes before the end of itsthree-year review. "The organization must grasp an historic opportunity tocorrect shortfalls in the system designed to prevent conflict diamonds fromentering the chain of distribution," Fischler said in a special meeting onconflict diamonds at the U...Read More

Alkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesThe new resource has 250 million tonnes grading 0.48% copper, 0.29 grams per tonne of gold and 7.5g/t of silver for a 0.74% copper equivalent grade or a 1.09g/t gold equivalent grade in the indicated category, containing 2.6 billion pounds of copper, 2.3 million ounces of gold and 61Moz of silver.In addition, it h...Read More

Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicals"We hope this will confirm it has tier one economics … I hope SolGold becomes for Ecuador what BHP was for Australia, a 100-150-year company.Read More

Kirkland Lake, Ontario - (February 28, 2019) - RJK Explorations Ltd. (“RJK” or the “Company”) (TSXV: RJX.A) is providing an update on the progress at its Bishop Nipissing Diamond property. The Company is currently plowing the logging road to access the first drill sites of the potential kimberlite pipes and drilling should commence shortly.RJK completed several reports rec...Read More

For the second year in a row, mineral and coal exploration expenditure in British Columbia increased in 2018.This is according to the British Columbia Mineral and Coal Exploration Survey carried out by the provincial Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, the Association for Mineral Exploration and Ernst & Young.After collecting insights from nearly 300 exploration projects across BC,...Read More

BGC exploring options for the sale of its national contract mining business BGC ContractingRead full newsRead More

Farm debt has been rising more rapidly over the last five years, increasing by 30% since 2013Read full newsRead More

China's nickel futures rose more than 2 percent on Monday alongside steel p...Read full newsRead More