"We are the first major company that's set out to do this, and we aim to be the first to achieve it," says Google CEO Sundar Pichai.Read full newsRead More
A German bioenergy company's reboot would make ethanol and renewable natural gas, though questions remain about its life-cycle climate and environmental impacts.Read full newsRead More
Why we could be seeing a short-term opportunity to buy this UK share at a better price just before a recovery in earnings. The post Forget gold! I think UK shares like this one can help me make a million appeared first on The Motley Fool UK.Read full newsRead More
New Pacific is exploring and developing projects in Bolivia.Read full newsRead More
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The second stock market crash is inevitable. Billionaire investor George Soros, in his book Alchemy of Finance, talked about the two concepts of fallibility and reflexivity. He explained that market participants’ view of the world is incomplete and distorted (fallibility), which leads them to take inappropriate actions (reflexivity). These inappropriate actions help informed participants to...Read More
This year will be etched in the record books for multiple reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a massive spike in unemployment rates, a slump in global GDP, and falling interest rates, among other things. The markets responded in kind and slumped over 35% in just over a month earlier this year.However, the V-shaped recovery in the last few months has led experts to believe that the stock mark...Read More
The stock market is moving in stark contrast to the economy. Billionaire investor George Soros calls it the liquidity bubble formed by the free money coming from the fiscal stimulus package. This liquidity bubble is driving the stock valuations to new highs. Hence, billionaire investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett are not participating in this stock market bubble.The state of the economy...Read More
Earlier this summer, I’d discussed why Canadians should get in on stocks that were connected to the electric vehicle market. McKinsey, the top management consulting firm, recently discussed the slump for electric vehicle sales in the first quarter of 2020. Sales dropped 25% in Q1 2020, coming after a slower sales year in 2019. Still, this market is well positioned for attractive growth in th...Read More
The race for a COVID vaccine has been on for months. And honestly, it'd be disconcerting if we weren't so desperate.Vaccines typically take years to produce and study, but we've got pharmaceutical companies competing to whip one up like a Labor Day daiquiri. Cracks are already beginning to show. On Tuesday, clinical trials for the University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine have been put on hold by...Read More
Sep 17, 2020 Guest(s): Peter Hug Global Trading Director, Kitco Metals Gold and silver prices have been trading rangebound, but the price patterns suggest that the metals are currently consolidating and are ready to see the next move, said Peter Hug, global trading director of Kitco Metals. "The fact that people are not selling into a market that isn't as frenetic as it was a month or six weeks...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday September 17 that are worth another look.China's domestic stainless steel prices experienced a larger rate of decrease over the week ended Wednesday September 16 on dropping demand, although nickel prices remained strong....Read More
The three-month price of nickel on the London Metal Exchange was slightly higher at the close of trading on Thursday September 17, gathering momentum above the $15,000-per-tonne threshold despite continued selling pressure over the day.Meanwhile, a steady uptick in LME copper futures came at the cost of tighter forward spreads.Nickel's outright price on the LME closed at $15,084 per tonne on Thurs...Read More
A summary of Australian-Chinese miner MMG's production results for the first half year ended June 30, 2020, as well as its full-year production guidance. In brief MMG's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) was $383.6 million in the first half this year, a drop of 41% from the corresponding period in 2019 due to lower commodity prices and sales volumes resul...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesSep 17, 2020I don’t think most investors understand the extent that the well-led resource companies have cashed up in anticipation of far higher prices for gold and a renewed interest in mining by the general public. The actions of the Federal Reserve and all central banks pouring bales of $100 bills onto a bonfire pretty much guarantee the end of fiat currencies, higher...Read More
The European high- and low-carbon ferro-chrome markets strengthened on Tuesday September 15 due to a slow recovery in demand.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for ferro-chrome high carbon 6-8.5% C, basis 60-70% Cr, max 1.5% Si, delivered Europe, was $0.85-0.97 per lb Cr on Tuesday, tightening from $0.83-0.98 per lb a week earlier."The capacity of users' production lines has been slowly coming b...Read More
Tungsten concentrate and ammonium paratungstate (APT) prices in China were stable on Wednesday September 16 after increased availability of both products in the market prevented prices from extending last week's gains.At the same time, the slowly recovering APT export market has turned quiet once more, with China-based sources reporting fewer inquiries from overseas buyers.Fastmarkets' weekly pric...Read More
Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to report additional intersections of strong radioactivity and initial chemical assays from the on-going summer drilling program at the Hurricane zone. The Hurricane zone is a recent discovery of high-grade uranium mineralization on the Company's 100% owned Larocque East property (the "Property") in the Eastern Athabasca...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday September 17 that are worth another look.China's domestic stainless steel prices experienced a larger rate of decrease over the week ended Wednesday September 16 on dropping demand, although nickel prices remained strong....Read More
The AIM-listed company was forced to shut down its plant on Monday after around 3,000 cubic metres of tailings material leaked into a local river.Read More