Ronald Stoeferle, managing partner at Incrementum AG, calls in to discuss pressing monetary matters and to review the investment merits of the Money of Kings.4:22 Institutional distrust means opportunity11:34 Deflation and the U.S. dollar18:14 The miners: a dismal past but a better future?25:09 Gold and crypto, monetary cousinsJames "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder o...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne steps away from the gold charts and looks to the bond market and USD as barometers for the precious metals. With yields looking like they have topped a couple weeks ago the direction which is now falling yields is very important. As for the dollar the question remains, is this year when we see the dollar breakdown?Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member o...Read More
"It will defend American taxpayers from having their hard-earned dollars siphoned away to finance the direct and downstream costs associated with birth tourism."Continue...Read More
"The actions announced by the OCC today reinforce the agency's expectations that management and employees of national banks and federal savings associations provide fair access to financial services, treat customers fairly, and Continue...Read More
Toxic chemicals linked in some cases to cancer, liver damage, low birth weight and other health problems are present in US tap water in levels far higher than was previously believed, according to a new report. Read More
It is unlikely that President Donald Trump would be defeated at the November 2020 presidential election, said Mickey Fulp of the Mercenary Geologist, but should that happen, copper and other base metals would take a hit."If Trump is defeated, I think that would be negative for the base metals because a president that will come in on the Democratic side is not going to lean on China the way that ma...Read More
The gold and silver markets are small enough that any significant inflow of capital could push prices higher, this according to Jeff Clark, senior precious metals analyst of GoldSilver.com."The gold market is so small that Warren Buffett could take less than 5% of his cash and buy every registered ounce of gold on the COMEX," Clark told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Vancouver Resource Investm...Read More
Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices went down once again on the news of a fresh deal for a UK-origin cargo heard on Thursday January 23.The cargo was booked late on January 22 by a steel mill in the Iskenderun region at $277 per tonne cfr for 22,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20).This transaction compared with the most recent cargo sold at $295 per tonne cfr for HMS 1&2 (95:5) from the United States o...Read More
With the calendar having shifted to 2020, opportunities and threats abound for steel and steelmaking raw materials markets across the world.In this special report, we take you around the globe to provide you with a...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices dropped significantly on Thursday January 23 in the lull ahead of the week-long Chinese New Year holiday, amid rising concerns over the potential impact of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $93.44 per tonne, down $3.24 per tonne.62% Fe Pilbara Blend fines, cfr Qingdao: $92.48 per tonne, down $3.24 per tonne.6...Read More
The Critical Investor provides an update on this explorer's Indiana project in Chile. Golden Arrow Resources Corp. (GRG:TSX.V; GARWF:OTCQB; G6A:FSE) recently came out with some pretty interesting news on its Indiana gold project in Chile. The company managed to amend the definitive agreement with the property owner, Mineria Activa (MSA), a Chilean private equity investment management firm focused...Read More
Also, the exploration company is working to accelerate drilling at the property. Lion One Metals Ltd. (LIO:TSX.V; LOMLF:OTCQX) announced in a news release recent results from the second deep diamond drill hole at its Tuvatu gold project in Fiji.Drilling of that hole, TUDDH494, remains in progress. It now is at a 700 meter (700m) depth of the planned roughly 1,000m target. Results for the first 40...Read More
The price of billet in Turkish markets has gone down over the past week on decreasing imported scrap values, sources said on Thursday January 23.The billet offers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) slipped to as low as $410 per tonne cfr levels, downfrom last week's minimum levels of $415 per tonne. Only one firm bid was heard at $408 per tonne cfr, according to sources.Fastmarkets'...Read More
Prices for steel billet imported into Egypt decreased again in the week to Thursday January 23 amid weak demand, sources told Fastmarkets.Egyptian rebar producers were offering rebar at E ?9,650-10,000 ($610-632) per tonne ex-works including 14% VAT, down from last week's E ?9,650-10,120 per tonne ex-works. ...Read More
Prices in Southeast Asia's steel billet market were stable on Thursday January 23 amid a bearish outlook for the ferrous scrap market and the absence of market participants in China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for steel billet, import, cfr Southeast Asia, which mainly looks at 120-150mm 5sp grade billet sold into Manila, was $442-443 per tonne on Januar...Read More
The Dow couldn't quite make it into positive territory, thoughAfter spending most of the day deep in negative territory, the Dow finished only marginally lower. The blue-chip index furiously pared its sharp losses after the World Health Organization (WHO) assuaged coronavirus fears by avoiding a declaration of a global health emergency. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both fought their way into the black f...Read More
A price-target hike has sparked upside in NFLX shares todayA negative earnings reaction weighed on Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX) shares Wednesday, but today, the FAANG stock is trading up 4.5% at $340.55. Sparking the bounce is a bull note from Guggenheim, which raised its NFLX price target to $420 from $400. The brokerage firm waxed optimistic on subscriber growth in international markets.NFLX option...Read More
X is fresh off an annual low this morningThe 20 S&P MidCap 400 Index (MID) stocks listed in the table below have attracted the highest options volume during the past 10 trading days, with data courtesy of Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White. The stocks highlighted in yellow are new to the list. Below, we're going to take a closer look at GrubHub Inc (NYSE:GRUB) and United Stat...Read More
A long-term bull signal just flashed for IONS, which could point to more upside on the charts Biotech concern Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IONS) is cooling off, along with the broader market, just one day after the well-received release of its mid-stage study for AKCEA-APOCII-LRx in patients with cardiovascular disease sent the stock soaring, before running out of steam at familiar resistance...Read More
LONDON, 8 January 2020 - BullionVault's latest customer survey opens a report on the outlook for gold investing from The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling broadsheet newspaper.Noting that gold prices have already risen this New Year, "Four in five gold buyers believe this can continue and investing in the metal will beat stocks," says The Telegraph online, quoting BullionVault."Most predicted...Read More