Expert Clive Maund reviews silver's 4-month, 1-year, and 5-year charts to tell you where he believes the future is headed for this precious metal. When the dollar broke down over a week ago, silver joined gold in breaking higher, as we can see on its 4-month chart below, and now we are seeing a normal post-breakout reaction as the dollar rallies somewhat to relieve the extreme condition that resul...Read More
For someone who uses the bond markets as important indicators to the macro analysis, I am the furthest thing from an astute bond trader and am certainly not a bond investor. This probably owes to the fact that my earliest (gold bug) training in the markets was with an eye toward the dangers of debt in a fiat driven system.In other words, how could I take seriously the debt of a government hopeless...Read More
With the breakdown of the U.S. dollar, expert Clive Maund reviews charts for gold, copper, and palladium to tell you where he believes the metals are headed and which he thinks you should buy. The last update was prescient as it called for a major breakdown in the dollar and breakouts by gold and silver, all of which happened just days later. If this were 2010 or 2011, this update would have gene...Read More
While comparing gold and bitcoin givessome idea of the patterns in the market, can the slide of junior miners bepredicted by the same method?Those of you who have been following myanalyses for a while may be expecting me to write that it is based on the stockmarket's rally and thus only temporary, as miners will follow gold soonerrather than later. That’s their ultimate source of revenue (cu...Read More
An unusually warm October has helped natural gas inventories, but gas prices don't seem to believe it. Oil has seen three days of heavy selling volume ending with a hammer candle stick Monday. Birchcliff, Callon, and Earthstone should benefit. Gold stocks have started a new bull market. The question is, will the gold price confirm it?The HUI index ran from a low of 180.41 on November 3, 2022, to a...Read More
Oil, like just about everything else that is related to the markets, bottomed around the March / April 2020 pandemic crash low. The oil complex had been one of the worst performing areas even underperforming the PM complex if that is possible. When oil did bottom it did so in dramatic fashion capitulating hard to the downside in one last climatic thrust.I built a few new combo chart this weekend,...Read More
Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipGlobal Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumNew drilling results relased by the firm today included 97.21 g/t gold (58.55 g/t cut) over 5.05 metres and 525.28 g/t A...Read More
Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumAura picks up the pace on its pathway to uranium production at TirisSPONSOREDaura energy Uranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSORED"Fiona will deliver Fortescue's global metals strategy - to be the most successf...Read More
Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumAura picks up the pace on its pathway to uranium production at TirisSPONSOREDaura energy Uranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDThe ongoing rivalry between the world's fourth and third-largest gold miners by...Read More
In terms of the expected cost of coal sales, Alpha is guiding to a range of US$106-$112.00t for metallurgical coal next year, reflecting inflation led by higher labour and supply costs.Read More
Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumAura picks up the pace on its pathway to uranium production at TirisSPONSOREDaura energy Uranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDThe legislation would impose a contract on four railroad unions and end a threat...Read More
Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumAura picks up the pace on its pathway to uranium production at TirisSPONSOREDaura energy Uranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDLondon is awash with rumours of a bidding war between Jiangxi, the largest coppe...Read More
(IDEX Online ) - A platinum necklace with 104.84 carats of D-color diamonds sold for $5.9m at Christie's Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels Sale.It was the top lot in an auction that netted a total of over $46m.Just over $11m of that was from the sale of 51 pieces from a collection including Cartier, Buccellati, Bulgari, Van Cleef & Arpels, Louis Vuitton, and Boghossian that belonged to retired...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Lucara has announced increased forecasts for 2023 diamond sales and recoveries.The Canadian miner expects to sell $200m to $230m from its 100 per cent owned Karowe mine, in Botswana, an increase on it 2022 forecast of $185m to $215m.It forecasts sales of 385,000 to 415,000 carats (up from 300,000 to 340,000 carats in 2022) and expects to recover 395,000 to 425,000 carats (an increa...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Over 1,000 high-end watches, with an estimated value of over $10m, have been stolen from a safe deposit facility in Berlin.They were being stored by Watchmaster, one of Europe's largest pre-owned watch traders, mostly on behalf of customers who were selling them.Many of the watches were Rolex, Patek Philippe, Omega, Audemars Piguet and Breitling, according to the company'...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Australian miner Newfield Resources says it has secured finance to expand the development of its Tongo Diamond Mine, in Sierra Leone.It has entered into an asset purchase and sales agreement with New York-based DelGatto Diamond Finance Fund (DDFF), at a time when miners globally are struggling to attain credit. Details of the arrangement were not disclosed.Newfield took over Tongo...Read More
Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumAura picks up the pace on its pathway to uranium production at TirisSPONSOREDaura energy Uranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSORED"At this stage the eventual outcome clearly remains uncertain," RBC Capital Mark...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 2 points in pre-opening trade.The Canadian Dollar slipped 0.15 to US73.92 cents following release of Canada's September real GDP report at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus for the third quarter was an annualized gain of 1.5% versus a gain of 3.3% in the second quarter. Actual was a gain of 2.9%.Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS.TO $71.46...Read More
It's official - good times are here again!Black Friday's sales set a new record this year, up 2.3% over 2021. Thanksgiving online sales were also up 2.9%. So don't listen to any gloom and doom talk about a recession. Just look at the numbers.That's what they'll tell you. Well, here's what they won’t tell you:All of those sales figures are nominal. In other words, they don't account for infla...Read More
The midterm elections, the "most important elections of our lifetimes," are over. Whoever won, it wasn't really going to change much. Today's system is simply too deeply entrenched.While the much-touted differences between America’s political parties get obsessive, hysterical attention, the sameness of Imperial corruption, waste and squalor regardless of who’s in power gets little noti...Read More