I know it may have come as a shock to some of you on why I raised some capital by selling a few PM stocks today. Whenever you see a false breakout of any chart pattern and the price action trades below the bottom rail of the original pattern that can setup a bearish situation. It’s like a head fake. The stock forms what looks like a great breakout and maybe even accompanied by a breakout gap...Read More

As theold saying goes, politics is a show business for ugly people. Fair enough, butwhat does it have to do with gold? Let’s jump right in and find out! There Is No Trade War Economicreports are rarely fun. But when we read the latestUS trade report, we could not help but laugh. It turns out that the USgoods and services deficit was $59.8 billion in December, up $9.5 billion, oralmost 19 per...Read More

PLEASE NOTE: THE COT REPORT SCHEDULE IS NOW UP-TO-DATE & ON ITS NORMAL SCHEDULE WITH THE RELEASE OF THIS REPORT. Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 202,628114,61059,730155,732269,729418,090444,069 Change from Prior Reporting Period -34,20713,471-5,6729,690-36,158-30,189-28,359 Traders 18568814952269168 Small Speculator...Read More

The widely-held mega-cap stocks that dominate the US markets recently finished reporting their Q4'18 financial results. Because the tenor of stock markets changed radically last quarter, this latest earnings season is more important than usual. An extreme monster bull market suddenly rolled over into a severe near-bear correction in Q4. How major corporations fared offers insights into whe...Read More

The current stock bull market, already the longest in U.S. history, turns 10 years old this month. It's been a phenomenally profitable time to participate, especially if you've stuck to an investment strategy that favors dividend-paying stocks. As you can see in the chart below, the amount of cash that S&P 500 Index companies have returned to shareholders has grown each year since 2009. In the f...Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Market manipulation by governments and central banks is right out in the open again, hiding in plain sight in the confidence that mainstream financial news organizations, financial letter writers, and gurus who purport to bring "technical analysis" to bear on markets will avert their gaze.For as GATA's friend Jim Anderson of SD Bullion Inc. in Michigan pointed out th...Read More

By: Richard Mills, Ahead of the herd On Monday Newmont Mining rejected a $17.8 billion hostile takeover by Canada's Barrick Gold. Speculation has been running wild over whether the two major gold miners would combine to make a $42-billion gold goliath three times the market cap of the nearest competitor, Australia's Newcrest Mining. We now know that deal is kaput. Newmont's board of directors...Read More

By: IRA EPSTEINEU cuts back its growth forecasts. ECB update. Gold under a down thrust from a strong US Dollar. Inflation around the world not an issue right now. Gold on pause of this bear leg... Gold close to support?Read More

March 8, 2019, Vancouver, B.C. - Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (TSX.V: NEE) (OTC Nasdaq Intl.: NHVCF) (the "Company" or "Northern Vertex") is pleased to announce a record shipment of an estimated 1,004 ounces of gold was sent from the Moss Mine, located in Northwest Arizona, to a third party refiner. These ounces were produced over a nine day period during late February, which represents a sign...Read More

By: Stefan Gleason, Money MetalsPreppers - the sort of people who build bunkers, stockpile supplies, and bear arms - aim to survive "SHTF" scenarios.When war breaks out, when the power grid goes down, when the banks fail, when the U.S. dollar collapses, when social unrest spreads, when the stuff hits the fan... will you be prepared?Risks are rising.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists maintains...Read More

By: Dave KranzlerSomeone last week suggested that Trump sees the stock market as the barometer measuring the success of his Presidency. I think his behavior, tweets, press comments, etc with respect to the stock market validates that assertion.The Dow trended lower all week last after Monday's close. Whenever the stock market faded from an early run-up or began a rapid sell-off, a Trump tweet o...Read More

Full Article: The return to a gold exchange standardBy: Alasdair MacleodThis article makes the obvious point that a return to a gold standard is the only way nations can contain the interest cost of servicing debt, given the alternative is inflationist policies that can only lead to far higher interest rates and currency destruction. The topic is timely, given the self-harm of American economic a...Read More

In this opinion piece, De Beers Group CEO Bruce Cleaver outlines the diamond miner's approach to creating a more inclusive world for all.For more than a century, International Women's Day has been celebrated annually on March 8 to recognise the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the world. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity...Read More

Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsAgua Rica hosts a large-scale, long-life copper mineral resource with associated gold, silver and molybdenum, while the Alumbrera infrastructure is of significant scale and configuration that isRead More

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part weaker again this morning, Friday March 8, and weak Chinese trade data has not helped sentiment.With the exception of aluminium that was up by 0.1%, the rest of the complex were down between 0.2% for tin and 0.7% for nickel and zinc. Copper was off by 0.5% at $6,403 per tonne, compared with $6,435 per tonne at Thurs...Read More

Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsBMO, which recently hosted one of the world's biggest corporate mining gatherings in Florida, expects global copper production to fall by 4% from 2018 levels, by 2030.Read More

Share this articleAn underground driller at work at the now closed Max molybdenum mine near Trout Lake, British Columbia. Note the veins of massive molybdenite. Photo Courtesy Roca Mines Inc.Cameo Cobalt Corp. [CRU-TSX; CRUUF-OTC; SY7N-FWB] shares were active Thursday March 7after the company said it had closed the previously announced acquisition of the Max Mine and Willa properties. Both are loc...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 21 points in pre-opening trade. The drop in index futures was prompted by a 4.4% fall by the Shanghai Composite Index following news of a slowdown in Chinese trade.Index futures moved lower following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus for January Housing Starts was an increase to 1.190 million units fr...Read More

The big story today is the February jobs report.In the parlance of the trade, it was a "miss." And not by a jot, not by a tittle, not by a whisker.Economists as a whole divined the economy would add 175,000 jobs last month.What was the actual number?A mere 20,000 - miles and miles beneath expectations - and the worst monthly showing since September 2017.Consider: The United States economy has aver...Read More

When you travel out of the U.S. you need a passport. And some countries won't let you enter unless your passport is valid for at least six months beyond the dates of your trip. Moreover, the airline might not let you board if that requirement isn't met. Not to worry ... renewing your passport by mail is an easy task. You just need a new photo, $110, and Form DS-82. And in 4-6 weeks you'll have you...Read More