A Toronto-Dominion Bank Securities report recently forecast that the Bank of Canada would keep the benchmark rate on hold until late 2020. Stepping in line with many oddsmakers, the forecast suggests that a rate cut is the more likely move in 2019 due to soft economic data. Earlier this week I'd discussed how much pressure the moderate credit crunch was putting on consumers.If this forecast turns...Read More
Teck Resources (TSX:TECK.B)(NYSE:TECK) has long been known as a coal company — a resource so volatile and controversial that many investors believe it could ultimately drive the company to financial ruin. Last year, I addressed whether Teck Resources could go completely bust.However, peering under the hood, Teck Resources’s management team has been positioning the company for success...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesMar 15, 2019In 1956 I was ten. We lived in a tiny house in Phoenix, Arizona. Grammar school was just down the road perhaps a mile away. The management of the school system in Phoenix didn’t have much imagination. The name of the school was Madison #2. At the time I think there were six elementary schools in Phoenix all named Madison.I was in the 4th grade. My teacher&rsq...Read More
Metals Ex revealed last month previous management had wildly overstated the recoveries at the Runruno gold mine in the Philippines. At the start of 2019, Darren Bowden came in as the new CEO, replacing Ian Holzberger.The company has remained in financial peril since the change. There is now US$44 million due at the end of March, although the company has asked lenders HSBC...Read More
The many automotive applications for rare earths. Source: Medallion Resources Ltd.Medallion Resources Ltd. [MDL-TSXV; MLLOF-OTCQX], a company that is pursuing the production of magnet metals, said Friday March 15 that it is raising $495,000 by way of a private placement financing. The news sparked active trading in the shares, sending them down 16.67% or $0.02 to 10 cents on volume of 3.7 million....Read More
Gold ore (with much native gold) in a quartz vein from the Privateers Mine on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Source: Troubadour Resources Inc.Troubadour Resources Inc. [TR-TSXV] shares rallied sharply Friday March 15 following a resumption of trading after the company announced that it has signed a letter of intent that gives it the option to acquire all the issued and outst...Read More
Construction Photos from the Buritic?? Project Source: Continental GoldContinental Gold Inc. [CNL-TSX; CGOF-OTCQX] on Friday March 15 announced details of a US$175 million financing package that will be used in part to fund the advancement of its Buritica Project in Colombia.Continental shares rallied on the news, jumping 15.4% or 40 cents to $3.00 on volume of 1.18 million shares. The shares trad...Read More
The price of rhodium is quietly breaking out - and no one is paying attention.Since the beginning of the year, rhodium prices have increased by over 55%.What is rhodium?Rhodium is a member of a group of metals known as the platinum group metals (PGMs). These metals have similar physical and chemical properties and include platinum, palladium, ruthenium, iridium, osmium, and rhodium.Rhodium is an i...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 205,250126,43175,211192,029300,503472,490502,145 Change from Prior Reporting Period 2,62211,82115,48136,29730,77454,40058,076 Traders 19867845056283176 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 57,54027,885530,030 4,31964358,719 non reportable positionsCha...Read More
The major gold miners are grinding higher in a solid upleg, fueling growing interest in this small contrarian sector. They've mostly finished reporting their fourth-quarter results, revealing how they are really faring fundamentally. Collectively the world's biggest gold miners continue to face serious challenges, which often stem from declining production. That makes stock picking more im...Read More
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Last week I was pleased to attend the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto. PDAC is one of the largest mining conferences in the world. More than 25,000 people turned out this year, many of them selling equipment services, exhibiting securities and investments, making presentations and much more. As was the case at the BMO Global Metals & Mining Confe...Read More
By: IRA EPSTEINPrecious Metals Update Video: Gold market is having a problem... biased is down as trend is up:Read More
By Avi GilburtWe are often directed to think that the market reacts in the same manner as Newtonian physics. We believe that a news event which accompanies a market move was certainly the "cause" of that market move. But, how often have we seen markets react in the exact opposite manner in which the substance of the news event suggests?While science has moved away from Newtonian physics, stock m...Read More
Face it, this monster could veer wildly in either direction right now, and even an Einstein could not confidently predict which. My heart's desire is to see the S&Ps plunge into the molten pit of hell by summer. The 2313.00 target shown suggests that, at least from a technical standpoint, this is possible. Presumably, the years-overdue collapse would drive out the crooks who have rigged shares...Read More
Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More
Eric Sprott has more than 40 years of experience in the investment industry. In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities (now called Cormark Securities Inc.), which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms. In 2001, Eric established Sprott Asset Management Inc. Over the years, Eric has personally been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including one of Investor Dig...Read More
Rick Rule, founder and chairman of Sprott Global Resource Investments Ltd., began his career in the securities business in 1974. He is a leading American retail broker specializing in mining, energy, water utilities, forest products and agriculture. His company has built a national reputation on taking advantage of global opportunities in the oil and gas, mining, alternative energy, agriculture, f...Read More
As we face a major election this May in Europe, truly there is rising discontent among member states that this is just not working. The demands of austerity are tearing Continue...Read More
"The two sides have further made concrete progress on the text of the trade agreement between the two sides," the report stated.Continue...Read More