The Canadian market is finally starting to see some upward movement again. A few of you may have actually achieved the "buy low" part of the "buy low, sell high" equation, and are excited to see that your investments are currently paying off.If you didn't get in on dirt cheap stocks, there's not only still a chance to make some money, but also to get some guaranteed funds in your pocket. That's ri...Read More
A group of activists from the Ixtacamaxtitl??n municipality, located in the Puebla state of central Mexico, presented a letter to the country's president, Andr?(C)s Manuel L??pez Obrador, where they state that Minera Gorri??n's Ixtaca project represents "a threat to their lives."Gorri??n is a subsidiary of Canada's Almaden Minerals (TSE: AMM) and the Ixtaca deposit is said to be one a multimillion...Read More
Looking through some areas of the TSX index can be a daunting task if it's a healthy balance sheet that you're after. Energy, tech, REITs and more - every industry has a few big-name tickers with benighted health stats. One of the first things a low-risk portfolio owner learns to do when they start out investing in the stock market is how to sidestep these red flag stocks and find healthy tickers...Read More
Despite gold firming since November 2018 to be trading at over US$1,280 an ounce, its poorer cousin silver continues to languish at under US$16 per ounce. This is weighing on silver miners particularly when the stagnant outlook for the white metal is accounted for. However, that shouldn't deter investors from buying Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (TSX:FVI)(NYSE:FSM).Solid operational performanceThe mi...Read More
An alarm warning of an imminent mining dam rupture was issued on Sunday morning near Brumadinho, the same Brazilian community where the collapse of a dam at Vale's (NYSE:VALE) C??rrego do Feij??o mining complex on Friday killed at least 40 and left over 400 more feared dead.The alert of "dangerously high water levels" at another dam that is part of the same mining complex in south-east Braz...Read More
Following the development of a copper-graphene nanocomposite that adds 3% graphene to pure copper, Codelco Tech, a subsidiary of the world's top copper producer, and engineering innovation firm Ennomotive chose three people to lead the creation of applications where the new material can be practically used.One of the people leading the new applications is Julio Casal Ramos, an engineer from Venezu...Read More
A paper published in the journal Geology predicts that scientists are close to proving that microbes have control over the precipitation of metals in near-surface environments.The authors of the study reached this conclusion based on what they have seen at the unusual Las Cruces deposit, located 8 kilometres from the city of Seville in the Spanish region of Andalusia. There, a significant part of...Read More
Keris Lahiff| @kerisalisonPublished 10:16AM ET Sat, 26 Jan 2019Updated12:42PM ET Sat, 26 Jan 2019CNBC.com show chapters The man behind two gold ETFs says this about bitcoin 3:45PM ET Wed, 23 Jan 2019 |08:06 Bitcoin's hot streak is well and truly dead.The cryptocurrency has not been able to crack above $4,000 in three weeks just 12 months after trading at more than $12,000.Sign...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinSinking US Dollar after opening of US Government causes sharp rally in all metals:Ira Epstein reviews the days trading in the metal markets. For more information and access to Ira's free offers for commodity traders, visit https://www.iraepstein.com. Read More
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist If you could travel back in time to the 19th century, it would be very difficult to convince anyone that railroad investments were not the future of the stock market. Governments were offering subsidies and land grants to stimulate rapid industry growth - and in the period of 1868-1873, just after the American Civil War, an astonishing 33,000 miles of new railroa...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerFirst it was the loudly broadcast convening of the Working Group on Financial Markets - aka "the Plunge Protection Team" - by the PPT's el Jefe, Steven Mnuchin. This was followed the "mouse that roared" speech from Fed head, Jerome Powell, hinting that the Fed would moon-walk away from rate hikes.Today was trial Hindenburg launched by the Wall St Journal suggesting that the...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinSinking US Dollar after opening of US Government causes sharp rally in all metals:Ira Epstein reviews the days trading in the metal markets. For more information and access to Ira's free offers for commodity traders, visit https://www.iraepstein.com. Read More
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist If you could travel back in time to the 19th century, it would be very difficult to convince anyone that railroad investments were not the future of the stock market. Governments were offering subsidies and land grants to stimulate rapid industry growth - and in the period of 1868-1873, just after the American Civil War, an astonishing 33,000 miles of new railroa...Read More
David's new book: Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp And The Fantasy Of MAGA.David Stockman is a former Republican congressman from Michigan and was President Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. After leaving the White House, Stockman became a managing director at Salomon Brothers, and he later founded a private equity fund. David is the founder of David Stockman's Contra Corner, and he is...Read More
Prices for steel billet in the major global markets either recovered or were stable during the week ended Friday January 25, due to the reduced availability of material from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and rising Turkish scrap prices.One exception was Iran, where exporters continued to slash their offers in attempts to secure bookings in the shadow of United States trading sanctio...Read More
Are you sick of your gold just sitting there when it was supposed to have long since made you rich? Have you been fantasizing about a world in which your gold really does make you rich?Continue...Read More
With Maduro desperately clinging to power in Venezuela - albeit protected by Russian "security contractors" Continue...Read More
A group of activists from the Ixtacamaxtitl??n municipality, located in the Puebla state of central Mexico, presented a letter to the country's president, Andr?(C)s Manuel L??pez Obrador, where they state that Minera Gorri??n's Ixtaca project represents "a threat to their lives."Gorri??n is a subsidiary of Canada's Almaden Minerals (TSE: AMM) and the Ixtaca deposit is said to be one a multimillion...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinSinking US Dollar after opening of US Government causes sharp rally in all metals:Ira Epstein reviews the days trading in the metal markets. For more information and access to Ira's free offers for commodity traders, visit https://www.iraepstein.com. Read More
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist If you could travel back in time to the 19th century, it would be very difficult to convince anyone that railroad investments were not the future of the stock market. Governments were offering subsidies and land grants to stimulate rapid industry growth - and in the period of 1868-1873, just after the American Civil War, an astonishing 33,000 miles of new railroa...Read More