The Bedford Consulting Group released its annual survey of executive and board compensation in the mining industry and revealed that, within the nearly 200 companies in their sample, only 13% of board members are women.Even lower, when it came to analyzing named executive officers in mining firms, only 8% were women. The most common executive role held by these women is CFO.Looking at compensation...Read More

The Bedford Consulting Group released its annual survey of executive and board compensation in the mining industry and revealed that, within the nearly 200 companies in their sample, only 13% of board members are women.Even lower, when it came to analyzing named executive officers in mining firms, only 8% were women. The most common executive role held by these women is CFO.Looking at compensation...Read More

The Bedford Consulting Group released its annual survey of executive and board compensation in the mining industry and revealed that, within the nearly 200 companies in their sample, only 13% of board members are women.Even lower, when it came to analyzing named executive officers in mining firms, only 8% were women. The most common executive role held by these women is CFO.Looking at compensation...Read More

Early investors could see a windfall as this invention unlocks $15.7 trillion in revenue.It's been called humanity's last invention...The "king of disrupters."And "the most important conversation of our time."Insiders are already predicting it will have a bigger economic impact than the steam engine, electricity and the internet...The World Economic Forum claims it will usher in the "4th industria...Read More

The stock market "secret" no one is talking about.The world's richest investors have been using this simple "trick" to build massive fortunes for decades.They've done everything in their power to hide the truth from individual investors. In the process they've created a totally uneven playing field... where most of the players don't even know the rules of the game.This lack of fairness is one of...Read More

Equipment company MineWare announced that its experts have extended the capability of its Pegasys Dragline Monitor to support underwater digging."Enhanced with MineWare's new Machine Terrain Mapping (MTM) Technology module, Pegasys can now help miners locate and recover material up to 100 feet below water," the Queensland-based firm said in a press release.According to MineWare, identifying and re...Read More

Image: Petra Diamonds.This year will likely go down in history as the one when lab-grown diamonds, made for decades as an inexpensive alternative to mined stones for industrial purposes, finally cracked the consumer market, largely thanks to millennials' evolving shopping tastes.The entry of new actors in the synthetic sector, particularly giant producer De Beers and its Lightbox brand, has creat...Read More

The anti-establishment movements such as what we have seen in France and Italy are growing and will continue into the New Year says Gerald Celente from the TrendsJournal.com. In a wide ranging interview with Jim Goddard on This Week in Money, Celente also suggests weakness in the housing market is a bad omen for the entire economy.Celente explains that wealth inequality is the driving factor behi...Read More

Canadian junior miner Explorex Resources (CSE:EX) (OTC:EXPXF) said Monday that crews had been mobilized to initiate the maiden drill program at its cobalt-manganese base metals Kagoot Brook project, located in New Brunswick, Atlantic Canada.The Vancouver-based miner is taking advantage of a window of opportunity presented by a local drill company to complete two holes prior to the Christmas break...Read More

It said the company and some of its current and former directors and executives had agreed to pay more than US$22 million to settle Canadian allegations that they hid the risks of doing business with a controversial Israeli businessman closely linked to Congolese president Joseph Kabila, according to a person familiar with the matter.The newspaper said it was unclear whether Katanga and the indivi...Read More

Featured GuestsGerald Celente & Peter SchiffShow HighlightsFounder of the Trends Research Institute and Globalnomic(R) Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente returns with the economic forecast for the new year. $1,200 is the floor for gold - once the bulls push the price over $1,450 the sea change in sentiment could ignite an ascent to a new record over $2,000. Topping the list of catalysts that could...Read More

TECHNICAL SCOOPCharts and commentary by David ChapmanPhone: 416-523-5454 Email: david@davidchapman.comdchapman@enrichedinvesting.comTwitter: @Davcha12December 17, 2018 "This is the end, beautiful friendThis is the end, my only friend, the end" The Doors, The End, 1967 "We have two kinds of forecasters, those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know." John Kenneth Galbraith, e...Read More

We are going to start this update on a positive note by pointing out that the gold to silver ratio recently reached a 24-year record extreme as shown by the 20-year chart for this ratio below, which alone is a sign that the sector is close to a bottom and also that a major new bullmarket is likely to start before much longer. However, there is the small matter of a looming market crash and the c...Read More

By John MauldinBreathless ReportingAn Inverted Yield Curve Is Just a FeverEarly PredictorRecession ProbabilityA Little TimeCleveland, San Francisco, Boca Raton, and SICEverybody is suddenly talking about the inverted yield curve. They're right to do so, too, but alarm bells may be premature. Inversion is a historically reliable but early recession indicator. The yield curve isn't saying recessio...Read More

By Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA If we want to know where Gold is going we should follow Gold. Right? How about following gold stocks? At times, they lead Gold. What about the US Dollar? Wrong! In 2019, one market more than any other will impact Gold. That is the stock market. History argues (within the current context) that when the Federal Reserve ends its rate hikes, Gold's downtrend will...Read More

The past few years have seen more than the usual amount of political upheaval. But, interestingly, most regime changes have resulted in pretty much the same thing: Higher government spending and bigger deficits. Apparently the only "reforms" today's voters will accept - which is to say the only actions that don't get a leader kicked out of office - involve spending rather than saving money. Thre...Read More

By Steve St. AngeloThere has been a tug of war in the oil price over the past two weeks. Due to a very rare setup in the market, the oil price has traded in a very narrow range as traders fight it out to see who will win control... the BULLS or the BEARS. My bet is on the bet is on the bears. Amazingly, the oil price is literally stuck right between two critical technical levels.Ever sinc...Read More

With the uncertainties of Brexit weighing on Britain and the EU, their respective currencies have been taking a beating. The euro is in a long-term bear market that has seen a drop from $1.60 in 2008 to a low early last year of $1.03. Over that time, sterling has fallen from a surreal peak of $2.11 to a sobering $1.20. Although these trends do not speak well for the economic and political futu...Read More

Featured GuestsGerald Celente & Peter SchiffShow HighlightsFounder of the Trends Research Institute and Globalnomic(R) Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente returns with the economic forecast for the new year. $1,200 is the floor for gold - once the bulls push the price over $1,450 the sea change in sentiment could ignite an ascent to a new record over $2,000. Topping the list of catalysts that could...Read More

We are going to start this update on a positive note by pointing out that the gold to silver ratio recently reached a 24-year record extreme as shown by the 20-year chart for this ratio below, which alone is a sign that the sector is close to a bottom and also that a major new bullmarket is likely to start before much longer. However, there is the small matter of a looming market crash and the c...Read More