This is the second major Kazakh listing of the past five months, after Kazatomprom joined the LSE with a 15% float in November.Read More
A 76-kg gold-rich specimen from the Beta Hunt mine in Western Australia. Source: RNC Minerals.RNC Minerals [RNX-TSX; RNKLF-OTCQX], aka Royal Nickel Corp., shares were active Tuesday March 26 after the company announced a $12 million bought deal financing, and a purchase option on a gold processing facility in Australia.RNC said the potential purchase of the Higginsville mill and mining operation...Read More
Underground test mining at the Fortune Minerals NICO Project, Northwest Territories. Photo courtesy Fortune Minerals Ltd.Fortune Minerals Ltd.'s [FT-TSX; FTMDF-OTCQX] previously announced plan to build a metals processing facility in Saskatchewan has been hit with a setback after the company's application to change the zoning on the project site was rejected by the local municipality.The rezoning...Read More
Boom: There it is, the inverted yield curve, the sign of the fiscal apocalypse.But what is the inverted yield curve, and what does it mean?Do you remember what 2008 felt like? We were in the depths of the Great Recession, which was gripping the American economy by the throat...Hundreds of thousands of workers had lost their jobs, packing years of memories in a cardboard box and doing the corporate...Read More
West Red Lake Gold Mines Inc. (CSE: RLG, OTCQB: RLGMF, FSE: HYK) has assembled a 3100-hectare property, which has a 12 kilometer strike length and 3 former gold mines, in the prolific Red Lake Gold District of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. At PDAC 2019, we learned from John Kontak, who is the President of West Red Lake Gold Mines, that, in 2018, they drilled below the 500 meters of the resource ar...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerThe news headlines explained the sudden jump in the S&P futures this morning by stating that "recession fears had faded." Just like that. Overnight. I guess the fact that the housing starts report showed a 9% sequential drop in housing starts last month and and a year-over-year 10% plunge means that the housing market is no longer considered part of the economy.That report...Read More
By: DAVID Chapman "Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state." Carl Menger, economist, founder of the Austrian School of Economics, 1...Read More
Stocks erased their weekly gains and bond yields fell on Friday as investors reacted to a number of economic developments. Chief among them were a Treasury yield curve inversion, the first since before the financial crisis, and continued slowdown in the pace of U.S. manufacturing expansion.I had my eye on several other market-moving news items, some of which I share with you below. 1....Read More
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, March 26, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") announced today its Nevada Mining Unit's exploration plans include targeted expansion of the Isabella Pearl (IP) open pit deposit by testing the adjacent Civit Cat North. Additional nearby targets with open pit potential include "Scarlet", where numerous high-grade...Read More
By: Avi GilburtBack in the 1940's, Ralph Nelson Elliott once noted:At best, news is the tardy recognition of forces that have already been at work for some time and is startling only to those unaware of the trend.So, rather than be startled by the news of the past week, I have been trying to warn anyone who was willing to listen that if you want to know what the Fed is going to do, simply read t...Read More
By: IRA EPSTEINGold pushing top of the Bollinger band resistance. Higher lows and higher highs, gold overbought but benefiting from...Read More
Buy Gold, Sell Stocks Is the Trade of Century is our latest weekly perspective. Watch this video on Buy Gold, Sell Stocks Is the Trade of CenturyThe "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks as risk assets are due for another meltdown.It's only a matter of time until the bearish bet pays off big, according to Crescat Capital LLC. While the Denver-based firm has only about $50 million...Read More
Since last spring we've written over and over again about a Fed rate cut being the catalyst for a bull move in gold stocks.The history is almost bulletproof. Many lows in gold stocks over the past 60 years coincided with the end of rate hikes.At present the Federal Reserve is in pause mode and the market is on the cusp of pricing in a rate cut. Friday, Fed funds futures showed a 56% chance of a...Read More
By: Clint SiegnerBoeing and the Federal Aviation Administration worked closely together to hustle a new passenger jet through the safety certification process. The combined efforts to save time and cost, coupled with little sense of accountability, resulted in a tragic safety flaw.Now hundreds of passengers are dead, albeit in other countries. The public is finding the enormous trust placed in t...Read More
Fed "policy," such as it is, went all silly Monday when a little-known spokesman for the central bank said he expects one more rate hike in 2019 and perhaps another in 2020. Didn't Chairman Powell just finish saying that there would be no tightening this year? And weren't we reading the other day that the yield curve had inverted, raising the risk of a U.S./global recession? In any event, a Ph...Read More
We don't usually discuss politics on the show, after all this is a family publication. However, Trump's exoneration has led to an interesting state of affairs with potentially wide reaching market effects. Now that he's unshackled, Trump is free to pursue his agenda with little or no distraction. While the Dems control the House, they seem to be having a major meltdown. The far left never cared ab...Read More
David Morgan and Chris Vermeulen joined us for a roundtable to discuss where precious metals are at the present moment, where the cycle is heading and how best to capitalize on this major potential opportunity. An interesting session for sure.David Morgan is a world-renown precious metals aficionado. He is the creator of TheMorganReport.com, a monthly report that covers economic news, overall fina...Read More
Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor with Allianz, joins "Squawk Box" to give his take on the economy and the markets.Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a m...Read More
Max interviews Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about negative interest rates, QE for China, and the dire state of the European economy.Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a background as a stockbroker, banker and economist. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster...Read More
Michael Maloney is a precious metals investment expert and historian. He is the founder and owner of GoldSilver.com, a global leader in gold and silver sales/storage and one of the world's most highly regarded investment education companies. He is author of the highest selling precious metals investment book of all time, Rich Dad's Advisors: Guide to Investing In Gold and Silver. In addition, Mr....Read More