The Hydroxy treatment appears to be working so far! In an exclusive interview, Dr. Vladmir Zelenko shares with us a preliminary study outlining that out of his 699 patients treated, he has had ZERO deaths, ZERO intubations, and four hospitalizations. In today's episode of Common Sense, Dr. Zelenko breaks it down and gives a lucid explanation of the rationale behind his treatment. If you have been...Read More

According to St. Louis Fed projections, the coronavirus pandemic could result in 47 million jobs lost and send the unemployment rate past 32%!Continue...Read More

Medical experts in Europe and beyond are unable to keep up with the number of coronavirus patients needing respirators so they have come up with an interesting solution to the problem.Continue...Read More

Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to com...Read More

Nominal interest rates are at zero (with real rates probably negative), deficit spending continues to explode and the Federal Reserve's Continue...Read More

Ferro-vanadium prices continued to move down last week in Europe and China on weakening consumer demand due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on business operations. Measures imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus outside of China continues to pressure China's export price for ferro-vanadium, which ticked down for the second consecutive week on Thursday March 26. Fastmarkets assessed&...Read More

Sector expert Michael Ballanger looks at how economic forces are pulling markets in contradictory directions. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, w...Read More

Rudi Fronk and Jim Anthony, cofounders of Seabridge Gold, discuss the potential ramifications of current U.S. fiscal and monetary policy. The U.S. monetary and fiscal authorities are shoveling trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy to prevent a collapse of the economy and the financial system. Will this money be repaid or otherwise withdrawn from the system? If not, what consequences can we a...Read More

Technical analyst John Newell looks back at the gold to silver ratio through history. When we don't understand the present, we can turn to the past. It is believed the natural ratio in the earth's crust is ~10 ounces of silver for one ounce of gold.Back in 3000 BC in Mesopotamia (modern day Turkey, Iraq, Iran), silver and gold were used to enable trade at a rate of 5 ounces of silver to 1 ounce o...Read More

In discussion with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable, the Mercenary Geologist offers his take on the coronavirus pandemic, its impacts on economic policy and what he's buying (or not buying) right now. Maurice: Today we will find out if we are at risk of losing our liberty to the coronavirus, along with buying opportunities for your investment portfolio. Joining us for a conversation is Mick...Read More

James Kwantes of Resource Opportunities profiles a company that is financed to drill the Griffon project this year in the southern Cortez Trend. Nevada is known as "The Silver State," a nod to the 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode. That rich silver endowment led to Nevada's statehood, and profits from silver mining helped the North come out on top in the American Civil War.But the discovery of...Read More

The company transacted two major sales of properties in 2019. Liberty's Goldstrike ProjectIn a news release, Liberty Gold Corp. (LGD:TSX; LGDTF:OTCQB) recapped its 2019 financial transactions and exploration results. For the full-year 2019, Liberty Gold posted a loss of $11.583 million, or $0.05 per share. As of March 26, 2020, it has $15 million in cash and anticipates being fully funded for its...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts silver and explains why he is bearish in the short to medium term. Whichever way you cut it, silver's chart looks bearish for the short to medium term, but against this we must set its rapidly improving COT structure and the mega-bullish silver to gold ratio (by all past standards).Silver's 7-month chart is a rather grim picture. On it we see that key support...Read More

Swedish steelmaker SSAB plans temporary worker layoffs at its operations in Finland, and consequently a reduction in output, in response to the downturn in the flat steel market resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the company said on Monday March 30.SSAB has initiated negotiations with its employees on the proposed layoffs at its Finnish assets, the company said. The decision followed a drastic...Read More

Several Turkish carmakers - Honda, Karsan, MAN, Anadolu Isuzu, Temsa, T? 1/4 rk Trakt??r, Hyndai Assan and Otokar - announced production stoppages this week because of concerns about the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).Oyak Renault, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mercedes-Benz T? 1/4 rk and Ford Otosan all announced production stops earlier this month because of virus concerns.Honda Turke...Read More

Oil dropped to an 18-year low as global demand fellThe Dow kicked off the week with an almost 700-point surge, roaring to its session highs in the last minute of trading. Measures to combat the coronavirus are in focus today, after President Donald Trump extended social distancing measures in the U.S. until April 30, and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) announced an encouraging COVID-19 vaccine update. The...Read More

Zoom and Carnival are on opposite sides of the spectrum right now The20 stocks listed in the table below have attracted the highest weekly options volume during the past 10 trading days, with data courtesy of Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White. Stocks highlighted in yellow are new to the list. Two names that stick out are Zoom Video Communications Inc (NASDAQ:ZM) and Carnival Corp...Read More

European Metal Recycling (EMR) has shut down part of its operations in the UK due to the Covid-19 virus outbreak, the company said on its website on Friday March 27.The closures took effect from Friday evening, the company said, but no dateline was given for the move. Many scrap suppliers in the UK are cutting production, with almost all scrap processing shuttered in Scotland and much of it in Eng...Read More

AMZN is facing off with a key trendline todayLast week, we profiled the best performing stocks since 2009, based on annualized returns. It's no surprise FAANG stock Amazon Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) found itself on that list, boasting a return of 36.8%. Looking towards the future now heading into a new month, Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White broke down the best S&P 500 stocks to own in A...Read More

Dramatic swings in sentiment have caused indicators to flip-flop from bearish slanting to bullishly alignedIn the December 2019 edition of The Option Advisor, published on November 22, 2019, we at Schaeffer's highlighted option indicators that were flashy warning signs for the broad market.Inserted below is the concluding paragraph of that article:As always, we must consider these indicators in...Read More