Gold rallied strongly in recent weeks, buoyed by growing fears that an emerging global economic downturn and that a market correction was due. The yellow metal is now hovering at around US$1,280 an ounce, and there are signs that it could move higher during 2019.Silver also spiked, rising to over US$15 per ounce, which will be a boon for silver miners weighed down by the poor outlook for the white...Read More

The pullback in the TSX Index has put many of Canada's top stocks in the red for the year.However, a number of other companies that have been in the doghouse for some time have actually generated strong returns, and investors are wondering if more gains could be on the way.Let's take a look at Cameco (TSX:CCO)(NYSE:CCJ) to see if it deserves to be on your 2019 buy list.Rebound underwayCameco is Ca...Read More

Continental Gold's (TSX:CNL) stock went into free fall after the murder of three of its geologists in an armed attack on its facilities at its Berlin property in northwestern Colombia. Even a significant rally in gold over recent weeks, which sees the yellow metal trading at around US$1,280 an ounce, has been incapable of breathing life into the miner's depressed stock; it's down by around 40% for...Read More

Stock markets are forever cyclical, an endless series of alternating bulls and bears. And after one of the greatest bulls in U.S. history, odds are a young bear is now gathering steam. It is being fueled by record Fed tightening, bubble valuations, trade wars, and mounting political turmoil. Bears are dangerous events driving catastrophic losses for buy-and-hold investors. Different strate...Read More

It's time to end the absurd "war on terror." What exactly is the U.S. Government fighting? Hillary Clinton asserted that pulling out of Syria would "put our national security as grave risk." Huh? I see the U.S. military terrorizing the citizens of the countries occupied by U.S. forces all over the world. I have yet to see a Syrian military jet fly beyond the Middle East airspace looking to drop...Read More

The Orefinders McGarry Mine, northeast Ontario. Source: Orefinders Resources Inc.Orefinders Resources Inc. [ORX-TSXV; ORFDF-OTC] said Monday December 31 that it is preparing for a market turn as it continues with a strategy that offers levered exposure to the price of gold, while preparing the company for future mining industry consolidation.While Orefinders is a gold-focused company, its sharehol...Read More

Rio Tinto signs power supply deal for Mongolian copper mineTurquoise Hill Resources Ltd. [TRQ-TSX], a 51%-owned affiliate of Rio Tinto Plc [RIO-NYSE] Group, said Monday December 31 that it has signed a power source framework agreement (PSFA) that covers the supply of power to the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper mine extension in Mongolia.The mine is located in the Gobi Desert, close to the border with Chi...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Nevsun Resources Ltd. says Chinese company Zijin Mining Group Co. Ltd. has been successful in its $1.86-billion friendly takeover offer for the company.The companies say about 89.37 per cent of the total issued and outstanding Nevsun shares on a fully diluted basis were tendered to the offer of $6 per share in cash by the Dec. 28 deadline.The offer has now been extend...Read More

Please Note: US markets are closed tomorrow for New Year's Day. CloseGain/LossGold $1282.20+$2.20Silver$15.47+$0.10XAU70.66+1.41%HUI160.58+1.54%GDM588.56+1.55%JSE Gold1375.75+7.84USD96.14-0.24Euro114.59+0.12Yen91.23+0.39Oil$45.41+$0.0810-Year2.683%-0.036T-Bond146.125+0.59375Dow23327.46+1.15%Nasdaq6635.28+0.77%S&P2506.85+0.85% The Metals: Gold gained $4.10 to $1284.10 in London before it d...Read More

By David HaggithThe world is descending into intellectual chaos. Read El Erian in the following linked article, and then come and back tell me we have not moved into madness:El-Erian: 1000-Point Swings In The Dow Are The "New Reality"There is clearly a tooth missing in one of the gears in El-Erian's brain. How do you make this statement ...[A recession] is certainly not becoming a reality. You n...Read More

My Two CentsBy Andy Sutton / Graham Mehl This article was originally written by Andy Sutton on 7/24/2009; roughly 4 months after the markets bottomed from the 2008 blowout. Anything 'new' will be bolded. The 'Two Cents' series at the time was going through something of a post mortem of the meltdown and trying to give people a 'reset' so to speak regarding what was true and what wasn't. People f...Read More

By Clint SiegnerIt's amazing what passes as a market these days.Stocks rallied during the Christmas week, and the mainstream financial press would like you to believe bargain hunters swooped in after the weeks of heavy selling to grab some deals. The truth is there are very few actual people still evaluating the merits of publicly traded companies.The markets are driven by programmed trading and...Read More

By Frank HolmesStrengthsThe best performing metal this week was silver, up 5.15 percent, finally getting some respect as it approaches its 200-day moving average. Hitting six-month highs this week, money managers are the most bullish they've been on gold in months. Gold has been a beneficiary of the volatility experienced in global equities this week. Bloomberg reports that gold priced in the Br...Read More

The past couple of years have been brutal for precious metals mining stocks. Gold and silver went down a little while the miners went down a lot - four times as much to be exact. That's painful but not surprising. The miners, being in effect options on the underlying metals, tend to be a lot more volatile. But volatility works both ways, and starting in November gold began to rise while the mine...Read More

TECHNICAL SCOOPCharts and commentary by David ChapmanPhone: 416-523-5454 Email: david@davidchapman.comdchapman@enrichedinvesting.comTwitter: @Davcha12December 31, 2018"Gold is money; everything else is credit." J.P. Morgan, 1912 (financier, banker; 1837-1913) "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store...Read More

The last update was wrong. Gold was expected to drop with the stockmarket, but instead it rose. Being wrong in this business is not a crime, but it is vital to recognize the error as soon as possible and make a course correction, and if possible discern the reason or reasons for the error. Failure to do this through pride, obstinacy or stupidity can lead to modest losses becoming ruinous. So wha...Read More

By Keith WeinerLast week, we wrote about the concept of discounting. This is how to assess the value of any asset that generates cash flow. You calculate a present value by discounting earnings for each future year. And the discount rate is the market interest rate. We said:"If the Fed can manipulate the rate of interest, then it can manipulate the value of everything......There is no other rate...Read More

James G. Rickards, author and strategist, joins Remy Blaire of Sprott Media, to discuss gold and why "the little engine that could" will do more than chug higher when the Federal Reserve pauses. Rickards provides an explanation for why growth can occur during a depression and the warning signs that he considers point to an eventual recession in the U.S. economy.Jim Rickards is a lawyer, investment...Read More

Karl Denninger is an American technology businessman, finance blogger, and political activist, sometimes referred to as a founding member of the Tea Party movement. His website is The Market Ticker. Read More

While Congress and the president fight over funding a border wall, they continue to ignore the coming economic tsunami caused by the approximately 22 trillion dollars (and rapidly increasing) federal debt. President Trump may not be troubled by the debt's effect on the economy because he believes he will be out of office before it becomes a major problem. However, the crisis may come sooner than h...Read More