The blockade of rail traffic across Canada due to a disputed gas pipeline and fears about the impact the coronavirus is having on the global economy, sent the S&P/TSX Composite Index down 0.03% to 17,843.50. Uncertainty sent the price of gold up US$59.40 per oz. or 3.75%, to finish the trading week at US$1,643.00 per oz., and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index surged 8.69% to 282.93. The S&P/TSX Global...Read More
These 5 gold mining stocks are all making new 52-week highs even if they go mostly unmentioned on the tube or in the press.Read full newsRead More
These 5 gold mining stocks are all making new 52-week highs even if they go mostly unmentioned on the tube or in the press.Read full newsRead More
Feb 20, 2020 (GoldStocks.com via COMTEX) -- Gold has been in the middle of a remarkable rally over the past few days. On Thursday, gold futures gained for...Read full newsRead More
Greenlane Renewables Inc. is a pioneer in the rapidly emerging renewable natural gas (RNG) market.Read full newsRead More
Gold surged past US$1,600 this week and kept moving higher on the back of concern that the coronavirus is slowing the global economy.Read full newsRead More
Dividend stocks that are worthy of buying and holding forever should have the following characteristics: an underlying business that has top-notch quality, a long-term stock price chart that’s in an uptrend, ideally with below-average volatility, and safe and growing dividends.I’ll discuss three top buy-and-hold-forever dividend stocks that yield 3.9-4.7%.What’s a top-notch quali...Read More
Ecuador's National Assembly. (Image courtesy of the Assembly's press team, Twitter). The Economic and Tax Commission of Ecuador's National Assembly approved a report that allows for a second debate on the bill that updates articles 29 and 40 of the country's Mining Law. The goal of the reform is to promote transparency when it comes to public competition processes to adjudicate mining concessions...Read More
Up 10% in the last five days as gold explodes by 25% to smash a seven-year record, Newmont (TSX:NGT)(NYSE:NEM) is one hot stock. Breaking out since the headline-generating merger last year that propelled Newmont into the spotlight, this stock has generated a massive 48% share price appreciation in the last 12 months. And with 2020 looking like gold’s year, this trend may well continue.Newmon...Read More
Image of stibnite from which most antimony, a native element, is extracted. (Image by pepperedjane, Wikimedia Commons). Despite the price of antimony going up in late January and reaching approximately $5,600/tonne, market analyst Roskill says it is still not expected to quickly recover back to the 201?EUROE7/20?EUROE18 levels. Back then, the grey metalloid reached over $8,000/tonne.In a recent r...Read More
Reference image of a Toyota hydrogen fuel cell. (Image by Joseph Brent, Flickr). A research team from the Tokyo Institute of Technology created the first visible-light photoanode made of titanium dioxide or TiO2 enhanced with cobalt. The anode is a key element needed to achieve affordable water splitting to produce hydrogen, a clean alternative to fossil fuel.In a paper published in the journal A...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday February 21 that are worth another look.The impact on Vale from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been limited thus far, but the company is watching the situation closely in China.Logistics disruptions across China have paralyzed many of the country's supply chains since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus infect...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday February 21 that are worth another look.The impact on Vale from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been limited thus far, but the company is watching the situation closely in China.Logistics disruptions across China have paralyzed many of the country's supply chains since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus infect...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday February 21 that are worth another look.The impact on Vale from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been limited thus far, but the company is watching the situation closely in China.Logistics disruptions across China have paralyzed many of the country's supply chains since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus infect...Read More
The writedown was mostly related to its stake in the active Fort Hills oil sands mine in landlocked Alberta, while the company warned of another potential $1.13 billion future writedown should its $20.6 billion Frontier project not receive federal permitting expected by next week.The company wrote off C$910 million on Fort Hills related to lower market expectations for future Canadi...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday February 21 that are worth another look.The impact on Vale from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been limited thus far, but the company is watching the situation closely in China.Logistics disruptions across China have paralyzed many of the country's supply chains since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus infect...Read More
Clive MaundIf you are wondering why gold is starting to accelerate away to the upside, you need look no farther than the following amazing chart forwarded to me by reader Larry Fike, which Larry has kindly given me permission to reproduce in this update...Click on chart to popup a larger, clearer version.Chart courtesy of Larry FikeThe chart speaks for itself and requires little additional comme...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday February 21 that are worth another look.The impact on Vale from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been limited thus far, but the company is watching the situation closely in China.Logistics disruptions across China have paralyzed many of the country's supply chains since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus infect...Read More
Share this articleEDMONTON - The Alberta government has struck deals with two northern Alberta First Nations over a proposed open-pit oilsands mine that's awaiting Ottawa's approval.The Mikisew Cree and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations had previously reached deals with Teck Resources Ltd. for the Frontier mine, but were still negotiating with the province over environmental and cultural concern...Read More
While the Wuhan coronavirus captured investor attention on Friday, a Fed official was laying out her prescription of what the central bank should do if things unravel. If Lael Brainard has her way, the Fed will be staking new ground in its efforts to lift inflation. It could have a major impact on Canadian stocks. We explain why in this week's Insights. In addition, gold investors should enjoy ou...Read More