"Asian Idea Generator Weekly: An 80-Year Old Hong Kong Beverage Company, Screening For Predictability And An Unusual Aviation Proxy https://t.co/A7ZnUTpfLm"Read full newsRead More
A paper published in the journal Resources Policy states that bonus schemes for middle management employees in mining companies play a role in tailings dams failures.According to the research article, such compensation packages actively encourage managers to cut costs and increase production, as the material decisions that put into motion such measures lay in their hands and positive results would...Read More
We highlight four gold mining ETFs and stocks that have led the market in May.Read full newsRead More
The Democratic Republic of Congo's state-owned mining company rejected allegations that there are discrepancies in its financial statements, saying it paid $263 million in tax advances over a five-year period.Congo is the world's biggest miner of cobalt, used in rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles, and Africa's main copper producer. State miner Gecamines has often faced criticism for its...Read More
What's better than GOLD?In the wake of two mega-mergers that have reset the gold industry, one small detail has delighted Mark Bristow, Barrick Gold Corp.'s chief executive officer: His company's ability to secure the rights to trade its stock under the ticker GOLD in New York.Barrick and newly merged Newmont Goldcorp Corp. are in a race to lure back generalist investors who fled the gold sector y...Read More
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a tie! The current expansion already goes on 120 months, the same as the economic boom lasting from March 1991 to March 2001. However, in the previous edition of the Market Overview, we suggested that the current expansion still has room to run. After all, the ongoing boom is very long, but this is because it is very weak. If the US economy is to replay the robust rec...Read More
Scientists at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory created ultra-low density gold, silver and copper foams to give physicists better X-ray sources to employ in experiments at the National Ignition Facility.This facility is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device that uses lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel with the goal of inducing nuclear...Read More
Gold surged sharply over the past week or so, nearing a major bull-market breakout! Nearly everyone was surprised by this violent awakening, which erupted suddenly as gold languished around year-to-date lows. If this dramatic rally has staying power, gold has good odds of achieving decisive new bull-market highs. That would change everything psychologically, ushering gold and its miners' sto...Read More
Jun 10, 2019 Guest(s): David Suda CEO, TerraX Minerals With gold prices having traded range-bound for most of 2019, miners should be more focused on creating value through discovery, which the industry is lacking, said David Suda, CEO of TerraX Minerals. "The opportunity for us is in the fact that producing gold companies have actually had a lack of discovery. They haven't spent money on explora...Read More
I spent a chunk of last month in Copenhagen, Denmark, meeting with some of the biggest names in European cannabis.I was there for the European Cannabis Symposium, which brought together breakthrough cannabis companies, politicians, and scientists from all across Europe.One of the cannabis experts I met with was Ed Keating. He works for a data firm called Cannabiz Media.He digs deep into the intric...Read More
Jun 10, 2019 Guest(s): Kimberly Berman Director, Equity Research, BMO Capital Markets The technology of electric vehicles is evolving, and the battery of the future may determine which metals best to invest in now, this according to Kimberly Berman, director of equity research at BMO Capital Markets. "Lithium, obviously, is the key ingredient to any chemistry that you put together, so whether th...Read More
Gold surged sharply over the past week or so, nearing a major bull-market breakout! Nearly everyone was surprised by this violent awakening, which erupted suddenly as gold languished around year-to-date lows. If this dramatic rally has staying power, gold has good odds of achieving decisive new bull-market highs. That would change everything psychologically, ushering gold and its miners' sto...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded higher Monday following President Donald Trump's "indefinite" suspension of tariffs on Mexican goods that were expected to go into effect Monday. Raytheon (RTN - Get Report) and United Technologies (UTX - Get Report) will merge in a $120 billion deal. United Technologies is Real M...Read More
The three-month price of lead on the London Metal Exchange had gone up by the close of trading on Monday June 10, reaching an intraday high of $1,890 per tonne, while the forward spread on the LME was in its widest backwardation since April 2017.The price of lead continued to rise steadily toward the nearby resistance level of $1,900 per tonne. Despite breaking through that mark last week, it has...Read More
The Chinese alumina market's material supply has not been affected by the full production stop at Xinfa Group's Jiaokou refinery and has showed no sign of tightness until now, sources told Fastmarkets.China's alumina price continued its downward trend with the highest deal heard at 3,050-3,070 yuan ($441-444) per tonne on Monday June 10, despite predictions that the domestic alumina price may rebo...Read More
Lead's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange was up by around 1% during morning trading on Monday June 10, leading a broadly mixed base metals complex amid continued concerns over global economic health. Reaching an intraday high of $1,866 per tonne over the morning, the three-month lead futures have shown little sign of dropping below the $1,800-per-tonne support level, despite trading b...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday June 10 that are worth another look.Fastmarkets - a leading source of pricing information for the global commodity markets - announced on Monday June 10 that it has been selected by the London Metal Exchange as its partner to develop a lithium price benchmark. The partnership will promote the uptake of a transparent and repr...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday June 10 that are worth another look.Fastmarkets - a leading source of pricing information for the global commodity markets - announced on Monday June 10 that it has been selected by the London Metal Exchange as its partner to develop a lithium price benchmark. The partnership will promote the uptake of a transparent and repr...Read More
The Chinese alumina market's material supply has not been affected by the full production stop at Xinfa Group's Jiaokou refinery and has showed no sign of tightness until now, sources told Fastmarkets.China's alumina price continued its downward trend with the highest deal heard at 3,050-3,070 yuan ($441-444) per tonne on Monday June 10, despite predictions that the domestic alumina price may rebo...Read More
The company raised US$6.5 million in a placement at $1 per share this month for continuing development at Keno Hill, plus general corporate and working capital purposes. It had raised C$3.Read More