While Mexico suffered the bloodiest year of violent deaths in 2018, even bigger trouble may be ahead for the embattled country. For the first time in more than 50 years, Mexico has become a net importer of oil. This is undoubtedly bad news for the Mexican Government as it has relied upon its oil revenues to fund a large percentage of its public spending. And, the majority of these revenues...Read More
The export price for pig iron from Brazil has improved because of the long lead times for the material, Fastmarkets learnt during the week ended Friday March 29.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for pig iron exports from the southeastern Minas Gerais region of the country was $343 per tonne fob on March 29, up from $335-340 per tonne a week before.One deal for 50,000 tonnes of pig iron with 0.1...Read More
Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More
?>>?In Part I with global financier, Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics our guest rejoins the show with commentary."Tangible assets will survive," when paper assets evaporate, making collectible items and PMs invaluable.Martin Armstrong is anticipating an EU banking crisis, a "Perfect Storm" a liquidity crisis looms in emerging markets. With capital controls starting to curb appetites for glo...Read More
"When I hear these things about 'Let's make America great again,' I think to myself: 'Exactly when did you think America was great?'" Read More
Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Eric Peters back to MacroVoices. Erik and Eric discuss equity markets, volatility, treasury bonds and the biggest risks in the markets today. During the post game, Juliette Declercq joins the conversation to discuss her Financial Repression Theme.Read More
Portfolio Manager, attorney, finance author, a regular guest on North American media. Danielle Park is the author of the best selling myth-busting book "Juggling Dynamite: An insider's wisdom on money management, markets and wealth that lasts," as well as a popular daily financial blog: www.jugglingdynamite.com. Danielle worked as an attorney until 1997 when she was recruited to work for an intern...Read More
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"forged invoices, contracts, and letters that falsely appeared to have been executed and signed by executives and agents of the Victim Companies, and which bore false Continue...Read More
Gregory Weldon is CEO of Weldon Financial and Editor of the influential newsletters "Weldon's Money Monitor," the "Commodity and Currency Monitor," the" Metal Monitor," and the "ETF Playbook." He launched these macro-market publications, covering supply-demand fundamentals, along with technical, intermarket, and psychological insights, after building a successful career as a trader on Wall Street....Read More
"Tariff is another word for sales tax."Steve Forbes is an American publishing executive who was twice a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party for president. He is the editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes magazine as well as president and chief executive officer of its parent company, Forbes, Inc. Mr. Forbes' latest book is Reviving America: How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing...Read More
With all hell breaking loose in Turkey this week, one would think Mark Mobuis, the pioneering portfolio manager who launched one of the first EM-focused funds more than Continue...Read More
Chrome steel prices in the UK edged higher in the week ended Friday March 29 on an increase in the quarterly European ferro-chrome benchmark price, Fastmarkets has learnt.The price of steel scrap solids with a chromium content of 12-13% was assessed by Fastmarkets on March 29 at ?190-230 ( ?249-302) per tonne delivered, widening upward by ?10 per tonne. This was the first change in the assessmen...Read More
"The North began rebuilding the center, which was partly dismantled last July, before the North-U.S. summit in February,"Continue...Read More
Top White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow sayd Trump and the White House wants the Fed to "immediately" cut interest rates by 50 basis points.Continue...Read More
According to Agriculture Secretary Sunny Purdue, there "may be as many as a million calves lost in Nebraska" due to the catastrophic flooding that has hit the state. Continue...Read More
Barry discusses his early interest in geology and why living in Australia has given him a different perspective from many U.S. investors. He explains how the mining sector is doing quite well in Australia and how the Pilbara gold discoveries look promising. He says, "The demand for commodities will continue to grow as the world strives to reach middle-class." Therefore people who invest long-term...Read More
This $1,380 level has been a significant overhead resistance zone for the yellow metal, which when breached, Continue...Read More
CIS billet prices started to decline in the last week of March, with the market under pressure from lower customers' bids, falling scrap prices in Turkey, and growing competition from Turkish billet suppliers because of the lira weakening against the US dollar.Indications of offers were coming within the range of $450-460 per tonne fob Black Sea, Fastmarkets heard on Friday March 29. A Ukraine-bas...Read More
Growing hemp could be the solution for one junior gold miner with unused land and not enough money.The board of California Gold Mining Inc. has decided to propagate high-CBD industrial hemp seed on a portion of its property in the town of Fremont. Like most of its peers, the junior exploration mining company has struggled to grow. Its cash holdings were less than C$173,000 ($129,000) as of Nov. 30...Read More