It's widely expected that interest rates won't change Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are confidently above fair value today. Should today's pre-market price action hold, the blue-chip index could take aim at a five-day winning streak -- which would mark its longest since early January. The two-day Fed meeting will get underway later today, but no rate hike is expected to be announced...Read More

It seems that buyers have rediscovered their appetite for London-listed equitiesAs the U.K. government continues to vote on various facets and permutations of their impending "Brexit" from the European Union (EU) on what now seems to be a near-daily basis, the iShares MSCI United Kingdom ETF (NYSEARCA:EWU) has rebounded sharply from its bear-market lows of Christmas Eve 2018. Shares of the exchang...Read More

Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More

A summary of base metals premiums from across the globe for the week to Tuesday March 19.Please click...Read More

First Vanadium's (TSXV: FVAN) stock was up over 5% on Tuesday after announcing that it has more than doubled the size of its Carlin vanadium property in Nevada from 1,331 acres to 3,177 acres.The company has staked and filed with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 1,846 acres of unpatented lode claims over Federal lands adjacent to and proximal to the original core claims. The new claims provide...Read More

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Almaden Minerals' (TSX: AMM) stock jumped over 5% on Tuesday, following the release of its 2019 report on corporate social responsibility, which described the community-related activities the company has been engaged for over 15 years at the Ixtaca precious metals project in Puebla State, Mexico.Since first arriving at Ixtaca in 2001, Almaden has worked transparently to interact in a culturally a...Read More

The price for flat steel products imported into the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia mostly increased over the past week due to increased production costs, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday March 19.End-user demand has been weak, so buyers were unwilling to place large-tonnage orders, sources told Fastmarkets. At the same time, production costs have been rising and placing upward pressure on the f...Read More

In recent weeks we noted the bullish outlook for the stock market.Friday the S&P 500 as well as ACWX (global equity ETF ex US stocks) closed above resistance and made higher highs.Not surprisingly, as US and global equities have avoided a bear market (for the time being), precious metals have weakened. It's not a surprise that as Gold failed to breakout both the S&P 500 and global equities (ACWX...Read More

DaBoyz have been artfully rotating money between a handful of high-profile stocks in order to keep this distributive rally going for as long as possible. On Monday, although the broad averages seemed leaden all day, the Dow still eked out a 65-point gain while AMZN, AAPL and MSFT rose, respectively, 1.75%, 1.08% and 1.48%. This was despite the fact that shares of Boeing, the 800-pound gorilla of...Read More

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Wish everyone a very colorful holiThe region between $1290-$1310 is a very dangerous zone for day traders. Right now gold is bullish and looks headed for $1330+. Trend (after FOMC) in gold and silver n Thursday and Friday is the key. There will be buyers on dips and short covering if gold and silver rise on the latter half of the week. Brexit is still in a limbo. China buying more farm products...Read More

Equinox Gold has boosted resources at its Aurizona gold mine in northeastern California and reserves and resources at its Mesquite gold mine in California. Since the end of 2017 the company has increased its reserves 470% to 5.5 million oz. gold.The company updated Aurizona's resource with 13,635 metres of infill and step out drilling on the western end of the Piaba deposit completed since July 20...Read More

Aluminium's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange rose by more than 1% at the close of trading on Tuesday March 19, with a large rewarranting of just under 100,000 tonnes doing little to curb an upswing that saw the metal's price close at a three-month high of $1,946 per tonne.Total volumes traded in aluminium topped the complex, with more than 18,000 lots changing hands by the close, the...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Tuesday March 19 that are worth another look.A cyber attack on Norwegian aluminium group Norsk Hydro has temporarily halted its rolling and extrusion operations, chief financial officer Eivind Kallevik said on Tuesday March 19. The Chinese government has launched a round of safety inspections targeting 20 cities, including Gan...Read More

Wolfden Resources' (CVE: WLF) stock was up nearly 6% on Tuesday, after Kinross Gold (TSE: K) acquired 12.5 million shares at $0.20 a share -a $2.5 million investment - for a 9.7% stake in the junior exploration company.The two companies will form of a committee to explore Wolfden's 100%-owned Pickett Mountain volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in northeastern Maine.Wolfden describes Picke...Read More

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Brendan Blumer believes that Bitcoin will become a primary store of value in 20 years. BTC/USD recovery is capped by $4,000. The first digital currency will replace gold as a store of value of choice in 20 years, according to EOS COE and co-founder Brendan Blumer. He is sure that transaction fees will inevitably grow after the last Bitcoin is mined; however, various scalability solutions, like L...Read More

Lizzy Gurdus| @lizzygurdusPublished 13 Hours AgoUpdated12 Hours AgoCNBC.com show chapters Here's how to play gold using ETFs    3:22PM ET Mon, 18 March 2019 |06:10 Investors could be face-to-face with a golden opportunity, according to one fund manager.While gold prices had a strong start to the year, mounting an impressive February rally, they have erased most of those gain...Read More

Some important pieces of the US economic reports, including the latest nonfarm payrolls, have disappointed recently. May indicators (including the leading ones) have hit a soft patch it seems. Will that push the Fed to downgrade its dot-plot or fine-tune the monetary policy mix anyhow? Can gold jump in reaction to the Wednesday’s FOMC policy meeting? February Payrolls Disappoint U.S. nonfarm...Read More