Gold hit lows in mid-August, and the recovery seems to be failing.The dollar is a bullish beast.Interest rates are rising, and other commodities are falling.Risk-off threatens the prices of all assets.DUST can turn to gold if December 2018 turns out to be the fourth consecutive year of a low.Gold was trading around its $1200 per ounce pivot point on the active month December futures contract on CO...Read More
Gold three-month 25 delta risk reversals (XAU1MRR) flipped to gold puts (bearish bets) for the first time since Oct. 10. It is currently trading at -0.125 in favor of gold puts as opposed to 0.875 in gold calls on Nov. 6. The investor sentiment has clearly turned bearish in the last eight days, adding credence to the drop in the metal's price from $1,236 to $1,200. At press time, the yellow me...Read More
Botswana Diamonds (LON:BOD) has bought Russian diamond miner Alrosa's 50% stake in their Sunland Minerals joint venture (JV) and the company said it is close to bringing a new partner into the project.In a statement, the company described the unnamed new investor as "a large diamond producer with new ideas and keen to find new kimberlites in Botswana," adding that the potential new partner will ac...Read More
Botswana Diamonds (LON:BOD) has bought Russian diamond miner Alrosa's 50% stake in their Sunland Minerals joint venture (JV) and the company said it is close to bringing a new partner into the project.In a statement, the company described the unnamed new investor as "a large diamond producer with new ideas and keen to find new kimberlites in Botswana," adding that the potential new partner will ac...Read More
* Sterling tumbles a cent after Brexit deal hopes crumble* Asia rose overnight on U.S.-China trade hopes * Oil nudges higher for second day after 12-day losingstreak* Dollar gets going after soft start, Wall Street seenedging high * Bunds rally, Italian bond yields dip as budget remains infocus By Marc JonesLONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Sterling tumbled and the rest ofEurope's share markets groaned o...Read More
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Gold is rolling sideways around $1,210, having rallied off the key rising trendline support yesterday. The metal could rise well above the immediate resistance of $1,212 if the US retail sales miss estimates by a big margin. Gold's sharp recovery from the recent low of $1,196 has neutralized the immediate bearish outlook. Notably, the strong rebound from the trendline connecting the Aug.16 a...Read More
Shares in Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) got a boost Thursday after the company announced the board of directors had approved a $1.3 billion expansion of its Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile.The awaited upgrade of Los Pelambres will add 60,000 tonnes of copper a year to the company's overall production once in full operation. Annual production is expected to increase from 40,000 tonn...Read More
Shares in Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) got a boost Thursday after the company announced the board of directors had approved a $1.3 billion expansion of its Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile.The awaited upgrade of Los Pelambres will add 60,000 tonnes of copper a year to the company's overall production once in full operation. Annual production is expected to increase from 40,000 tonn...Read More
Shares in Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) got a boost Thursday after the company announced the board of directors had approved a $1.3 billion expansion of its Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile.The awaited upgrade of Los Pelambres will add 60,000 tonnes of copper a year to the company's overall production once in full operation. Annual production is expected to increase from 40,000 tonn...Read More
I perused Tesla's Q3 10-Q and scrutinized the footnotes to figure out, to the extent possible, where Tesla manipulated GAAP accounting standards and outright "cooked" its numbers. Before I had a chance to analyze the 10-Q, others had already posted their findings on Twitter or in Seeking Alpha articles. In the analysis below, I've double-checked and confirmed the findings presented by others. In a...Read More
Drilling at Nexus Gold's Rakounga exploration permit in Burkina Faso. West Africa. Source: Nexus Gold Corp.Nexus Gold Corp. [NXS-TSXV; NXXGF-OTC] said Thursday November 15 that it has struck a deal with company director Warren Robb to acquire the a gold-copper exploration property in the Bridge River Mining Camp, approximately 180 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia.Robb is also the company's...Read More
The processing plant for Endeavour Mining's Hound?(C) Mine in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Source: Endeavour Mining Corp.Endeavour Mining Corp. [EDV-TSX; EDVMF-OTCQX] on Thursday November 15 announced a significant maiden resource estimate for the previously announced Kari Pump discovery at its flagship Hound?(C) Mine in Burkina Faso, West Africa.Kari Pump's one million ounce maiden indicated resour...Read More
I'm not going to lie...While I'm not a gambler, and I've never had much use for Las Vegas, Sin City does have one thing I absolutely love...A 24-hour drive-thru cannabis dispensary.It's called NuWu Cannabis Marketplace. And it was a sight for sore eyes after I landed at McCarran International at 10:30 p.m., having been up for nearly 20 hours.My Uber driver took me there first before driving me to...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1213.30+$1.40Silver$14.29+$0.14XAU64.99+2.30%HUI146.41+2.06%GDM532.07+1.79%JSE Gold1108.65+27.91USD97.05+0.13Euro113.34+0.14Yen88.24+0.09Oil$56.46+$0.2110-Year3.113%-0.009T-Bond138.90625+0.03125Dow25289.27+0.83%Nasdaq7259.03+1.72%S&P2730.20+1.06% The Metals: Gold gained $4.30 to $1216.20 in Asia before it fell back to $1208.10 in London, but it then ch...Read More
By Ira EpsteinCould this be where a bounce in gold starts that has some legs to it?https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More
By Daniel R. Amerman, CFAMartin Feldstein, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Reagan and is currently a Harvard professor, wrote an extraordinary editorial in the Wall Street Journal in which he strongly advocated that the Federal Reserve pursue policies that would: 1) continue to raise interest rates; and 2) thereby pop asset bubbles in the stock and commercial...Read More
By Frank HolmesIf you've run into difficulties lately finding the best gold stocks to invest in, you're not alone. Sentiment has been down. But there are still some very attractive opportunities out there in the goldfields, one of which I want to share with you.First, a quick recap: The price of gold tested support of $1,200 an ounce on Monday as the U.S. dollar strengthened to a 16-month high,...Read More
Highlights Rob Kirby of Kirby Analytics sees extreme risks ahead for the financial markets via a shattered US accounting system.The missing $21 trillion dollars (size of US National Debt) in government funds, is possibly held by the exchange stabilization fund (PPT). One likely use for the missing funds could involve the purchase of new US Bond issuance's, given the few foreign purchases of US d...Read More