Happy New Year! And it's an especially happy one for BioLargo and its shareholders, following its first-ever commercial contract ...Read More
As the U.S. Federal reserve considers reducing interest rates, gold looks set to rally in 2024. Read on to see which four stocks look set to benefit from the gold market.As the U.S. Federal Reserve is considering cutting interest rates into 2024, investors have found renewed interest in gold. The metal is commonly seen as a "safe haven" for investors when confidence in the economy is low.According...Read More
Perpetua Resources Corp. has released the highlights of its performance in 2023. Read on to see why analysts like this company's stock.Perpetua Resources Corp. (PPTA:TSX; PPTA:NASDAQ) announced in a press release that it has several milestones to look forward to in 2024, as well as reflecting on the company's performance in 2023. Perpetua reported that it is continuing to progress the Stibnite gol...Read More
The delay by the U.S. Forest Service is minor, but the mining company will likely have to secure additional funds to see the process to completion, noted a Cantor Fitzgerald report.Federal permitting of Perpetua Resources Corp.'s (PPTA:TSX; PPTA:NASDAQ) Stibnite gold-silver-antimony project in Idaho is now delayed by three to nine months, reported Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Mike Kozak in a January...Read More
Asset manager Chen Lin was very happy with his picks from 2023, including one that ended up soaring 1,900%. See what the asset manager has lined up for the new year.Asset manager Chen Lin was very happy with his picks from 2023, which were documented quarterly on Streetwise Reports.A fourth-quarter pick, Soleno Therapeutics Inc. (SLNO:NASDAQ), went on to be the top gainer of the year as determined...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 23 points at 8:35 AM EST.Index futures dropped 13 points following release of the U.S. December employment report at 8:30 AM EST. December Non-farm Payrolls were expected to drop to 158,000 from a revised 173,000 in November. Actual was an increase to 216,000. December Unemployment Rate was expected to increase to 3.8...Read More
The political left that I came to know in college that one that rallied around free speech, reason over faith, fairness to all and peace seems to have evaporated completely.I barely recognized what's replaced it. Truth is, I cannot make heads or tails out of any of it. It seems like this chaotic assembly of seemingly random biases, all shoved together in a package like a grab bag of the bizarr...Read More
Fed hawkishness hasbeen the rankling thorn in gold’s side for 18 months now. Since the Fed started this monster rate-hikecycle, every material gold and gold-stock selloff has been driven by the threatof more rate hikes. Those boost the US dollar,triggering gold-futures selling. But theFed’s hawkish spell over traders is waning. Gold and the miners weathered this...Read More
What a beautiful nothing! Nothingreally happened on the markets on Friday, but due to the context of theprevious days’ actions, it was profound.The thing is that it was a day whenmarkets took a breather and verified their previous moves.Some price moves are accidental ortriggered by geopolitical events. Sometimes, the markets pretty much “have to”move in a certain direction becau...Read More
The gold stock correction has been in play since GDX/HUI doubled topped in April-MayGold Stock Correction From a Seasonal ViewWe begin this article, which updates the gold stock correction, as a platform for providing information requested by two NFTRH subscribers. Below are the recent seasonal tendencies for GDX. I’ve elected to use only the years from 2018 to current in order to keep the g...Read More
As many of you that follow my public articles likely know, I am an avid reader. And, from time to time, I will choose to read other public articles on various markets.What truly burns my buns are articles that present market fallacies as the basis for their "analysis." And, sadly, this is all too commonly seen in the metals complex.So, just the other day, I read an article that called fo...Read More
Preciousmetals markets are ticking lower this week amid an ongoing summer lull ininvestor demand. Theupshot of soft market conditions for gold and silver is favorable buyingopportunities for bargain hunters. Not only are spot prices down, but so arepremiums on popular bullion products available through Money Metals. Overthe past three years, premiums on Silver Eagles have been especially elevated...Read More
Simply put, the road to reaching net zero begins and ends with copper. All infrastructure built to support renewable energy uses large amounts of copper, as the metal is a highly efficient conductor of electricity and heat.To keep the energy transition going, millions of feet of copper wiring will be required for strengthening the world’s power grids, and hundreds of thousands of tonnes more...Read More
The white metal is priced for aneconomic outcome that’s unlikely to materialize. AI OptimismWith liquidity-fueled assetsoutperforming in 2023, they’ve decided that QT and higher interest rates arenot going to spoil their party. Moreover, with silver and goldalso liquidity beneficiaries, they have adopted similar attitudes.However, while the gambit can persist in the short ter...Read More
Gold-stock technicalsare dramatically improving, turning increasingly bullish. After slumping to major support zones in thesummer doldrums, the gold miners’ stocks have surged sharply in the past coupleweeks. That strong advance has achieveda decisive breakout above the main gold-stock benchmark’s key 50-day movingaverage. Similar breakouts in recent yearshave heralde...Read More
LONDON, 3 January 2024 - German personal finance site Finanz Nachrichten today features the latest Gold Investor Index data and comment from BullionVault.On an annual average basis, both the Gold and the Silver Investor Indices set new all-time lows in 2023 as profit-taking jumped and new demand fell hard.Click through to read the full story, in German, here:Deutsche Edelmetallinvestitionen erreic...Read More
LONDON, 2 January 2024 - BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index features today at UK personal investing site The Armchair Trader."The split in gold between private investment and central banks couldn't be starker," says BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash. "While central banks are buying gold like it has returned as the lynchpin of the global monetary system, private investors are sell...Read More
LONDON, 2 January 2024 - Comment and data from BullionVault feature today in a look at the investing year ahead from ThisIsMoney, the popular UK financial news-site from the Daily Mail group of newspapers.Reviewing the outlook from expert commentators for global shares and bonds, "Gold has set a run of new all-time records and the underlying direction clearly points higher," says the report, quoti...Read More
Big Oil is on the move, feeling its way into a changing energy world. There are two sides to adapting: how to decarbonise oil and gas and how to build a sustainable business around zero-carbon technology. Valentina Kretschmar, VP and Tom Ellacott, SVP of our Corporate Analysis team took me through their thinking of how company strategies are developing.This week, BP went a step further on the firs...Read More
Commenting after Chesapeake announced plans to buy Vine Energy in a cash-and-stock deal which values the Blackstone Group-controlled E&P at around US$2.2 billion, analysts from natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie said: “We were confident 2021 would be a big year for Haynesville consolidation.“This deal really picks up the pace after Southwestern Energy/Indigo just tw...Read More