"By cloning veteran dogs, we can greatly improve the success rate and the number of quality Kunming police dogs available, bolstering national security as a result," Continue...Read More

Axel Merk from Merk Investments expects the Fed to hike rates later this year.Merk says the Fed is still in an easing mode. This is not justified with such low unemployment. Raising rates is what's ahead, he says.Merk sees a risk of inflation in the future. We are in the late stages of an economic cycle. Higher inflation is common in the late stages.When looking at investments, Merk says the most...Read More

I try to avoid partisan politics in my analysis. And I never try to tell people how to vote or what they should think. I trust my readers to make their own judgments. But sometimes I can't Continue...Read More

The best time to make money in the stock market is when markets plummet. Alexander Elder joins Robert & Kim to discuss the techniques he uses to profit during down markets.Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 personal finance book of all time. His book titles hold four of the top ten spots on Nielsen Bookscan List's Life-to-Date Sales from 2001-2008 alone. Rober...Read More

The Federal Reserve decided Wednesday to keep interest rates steady and said that no more hikes will be coming this year.Continue...Read More

Rick Sanchez breaks down the Pentagon putting your tax dollars to work: Lobster, crab, alcohol, golf carts, tubas and trombones - the list goes on! Then veteran and writer John Whitehead of Counterpunch joins to weigh in on the colossal waste of tax money that the US "defense" budget represents and which puts the country ever deeper in debt. Read More

Everyone now knows that the only meaningful goal of Fed policy is propping up the world's greatest credit-asset bubble.Continue...Read More

Key data from the Wednesday March 20 pricing session in Europe.Key driversThe European ferro-titanium market has hit a five-month high in the past week, with the rally showing no signs of abating while suppliers struggle to keep up with demand. There is renewed consumer demand for prompt shipment and buying inquiries for second-quarter deliveries. The run-up in prices is set to persist, with $6 pe...Read More

Citigroup plans to sell several tons of Venezuela's gold placed as collateral by Maduro's failing governmentContinue...Read More

Wheaton Precious Metals, (TSE: WPM) one of the largest precious metals streaming companies in the world, announced record gold production and sales in 2018 and declared a $0.09 per share first quarter dividend for 2019 on Wednesday.In the fourth quarter of 2018, Wheaton generated almost $110 million in operating cash flow, bringing total operating cash flow for the year to over $475 million, fo...Read More

Chalice Gold Mines has filed an amended 43-101 report on SEDAR for its East Cadillac gold project. The property is 35 km east of Val d'Or, on the prolific Cadillac-Larder Lake fault. The amended report includes non-material changes requested by the Ontario Securities Commission, and the resource estimated made in the original report dated Feb. 12, 2017, has not changed.The resources include 225,34...Read More

Montreal-based Champion Iron has excellent results from its 9,350-metre drill program last fall on its Powderhorn property located in north-central Newfoundland, 40 km southwest of Springdale. The results come from both a copper-rich and a zinc-rich zone.Results from the copper zone include:Hole PH18-16: 0.89% copper, 1.1 g/t gold, 13.9 g/t silver and 0.09% zinc over 3.92 metres. The best intersec...Read More

Iamgold Corp. has announced a 32% reduction in the workforce at its Westwood gold mine 40 km east of Rouyn-Noranda and only 2.5 km east of the former Doyon gold mine. The process is to begin this week.A planned reduction due to the stage of mine development and a realignment due to the 2019 guidance numbers were considered in making the decision, said Iamgold. Westwood production is to be between...Read More

Imperial Metals' (TSX:III) stock rocketed 62% last week over a two-day period on the news that Australia's Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM) is taking a $1.1 billion stake in the company's Red Chris copper-gold mine - a price that has shocked investors and observers.The copper-gold mining company's stock shot from C$1.98 per share on March 8 to $3.20 per share on March 11. On Wednesday it was trading at $...Read More

Continental Gold (TSX: CNL) has announced a discrete resource estimate for the Broad Mineralized Zone 1 (BMZ1) in the central-west portion of the Yaragua system at its Buritica gold project in Antioquia, Colombia.The zone contains 828,870 measured and indicated tonnes grading 14.15 grams gold per tonne and 22.9 grams silver for 377,000 oz. gold and 611,000 oz. silver. It also contains 141,150 infe...Read More

Import prices for stainless steel in East Asia edged down again over the past week, with the downtrend in nickel contributing to a reduction in trading activity. Buyers remained in wait-and-see mode because of the nickel situation, while some sellers were willing to accept lower prices to secure more orders, sources said.Fastmarkets' weekly import price assessment for benchmark 304 stainless...Read More

South Africa's labour court ruled on Wednesday that the extension of a wage agreement to cover all gold unions and non-unionised employees of mining group Sibanye-Stillwater is valid and lawful, the miner said.Sibanye had in December extended the agreement, reached the previous month with the National Union of Mineworkers, UASA and Solidarity, to all employees at its South African gold operations,...Read More

Energy and resources open innovation platform Unearthed joined forces with Adelaide-based OZ Minerals to launch the Explorer Challenge, a competition that brings together data scientists, geoscientists and mining professionals to create machine learning-based mining solutions.Competitors who achieve the goal of predicting the next big mineral deposit in South Australia using real geoscientific dat...Read More

Researchers at Australia's Curtin University announced that they are working on a project to develop a new fingerprinting tool capable of delving deeper into the Earth's rock layers.In a press release, the scientists said the mechanism promises to be crucial for the country's mining and petroleum sectors because it will enhance their understanding of the Earth's sedimentary rocks.Northern Star Res...Read More

Domestic prices for hollow steel sections in Southern Europe edged up on Wednesday March 20, but are expected to match the stability seen in Northern Europe in the next few weeks, market sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly domestic price assessment for commodity-size, grade-S235 square hollow sections made in Southern Europe widened upward by ?,?5 per tonne this week, to ?,?630-650 per to...Read More