However the optimism could evaporate with reports emerging at the time of writing of a second Canadian believed to have been detained in China.The news follows last week's arrest in Canada of Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou, who has since been granted bail.Base metals were little changed on low volumes on the London Metal Exchange yesterday and the gold price is similar to this time yesterday, around US...Read More
Well, it was another shit show today for cannabis stocks.The downward spiral began a couple of months ago, and has not let up. Although we are now seeing some indication that most of the bleeding is starting to slow down a bit. Still, this is of little comfort to those who showed up late to the cannabis game.MariMed (OTCBB: MRMD) was today's biggest loser, although a 25% drop in share price opened...Read More
It was about a decade ago when I walked into the lion's den.At a conference dubbed the Modern Energy Finance Forum, I was asked to speak about the future of renewable energy.This was right around the time the global economy was imploding and new renewable energy technologies quickly went from being the "greatest investment opportunity of the 21st century" to a giant bubble that burst in the face o...Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Aben Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ABN) (OTCQB: ABNAF) (Frankfurt: E2L2) has reported analytical results from the remaining holes of the 2018 drill program at the Company's 100%-controlled 23,000-hectare Forrest Kerr Gold Project. This series of holes (FK18-37 to 45) focussed on areas immediately adjacent to known high-grade gold horizons and sought to test for an exte...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1242.90-$3.00Silver$14.77+$0.03XAU68.75+0.17%HUI156.67-0.06%GDM568.86+0.18%JSE Gold1298.65+25.20USD97.07+0.05Euro113.64-0.02Yen88.03-0.31Oil$52.58+$1.4310-Year2.909%-0.005T-Bond143.15625-0.09375Dow24597.38+0.29%Nasdaq7070.33-0.39%S&P2650.54-0.02% The Metals: Gold held near unchanged in Asia before it dipped to $1240.30 in early New York trade and then...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has refused to reply to or even to acknowledge GATA's questions about manipulation of the gold and silver futures markets that are purportedly regulated by the commission.By letters in July and September, GATA asked the commission to explain the explosion in the use of the "exchange for physicals" mechanism of settling go...Read More
By Dave KranzlerThe following is an excerpt from my December 6th issue of the Mining Stock Journal:Trumps Dilemma - The dollar index has been rising since Trump began his war on trade. But right now it's at the same 97 index level as when Trump was elected. Recall that Trump's administration pushed down starting in 2017 to stimulate exports and attempt to cut the trade deficit. The dollar fe...Read More
CRANBROOK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 13, 2018 / Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: "EPL") has completed a tri-party agreement with Tarku Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:TKU) and Denison Mines Corp. (TSX: DML; NYSE American: DNN) whereby Denison Mines has purchased the 1,334 hectare Virgin River property which is contiguous with Denison's South Dufferin Project located immediately south of the Athabasca...Read More
By Avi GilburtIn the past, I have outlined why fundamentals look best at market highs, and worst at market lows. And, just like we normally experience, as we were soaring over 2900, I am sure many of you were convinced that this was one of the best economies we have seen in quite some time. But, we seem to have topped on those great expectations.As the market continued to chop around near the l...Read More
Although stocks have taken an unpleasant hit since early October, the market is not exactly falling apart. Let your eyes take in the big picture shown in today's chart (inset). It wouldn't be stretching things visually to say the blue chip average has spent most of the year in a consolidation, presumably biding its time until economic news turns more favorable. In the meantime, one could reasona...Read More
Zero. The US inflation rate was unchanged in November. What does the flat CPI mean for the gold market? What Happened With Inflation? The CPI was unchanged in November, following an increase of 0.3 percent in October. It was the weakest number since March 2018, when monthly inflation fell about 0.1 percent. However, the flat reading was caused by a sharp decline in the price of gasoline - t...Read More
- 'Gigantic holes in the system' warns former Fed Head- Interest rates will remain lower than they have been in past- Leveraged loans pose risks and there is unfinished regulation- "I think things have improved, but then I think there are gigantic holes in the system"- No new financial crisis in 'our lifetimes', Yellen said only last year- Editors note: Yellen should know as she and her predece...Read More
No one in government seems to care about the country's burgeoning debt. Not the President, not Congress or anyone in the Swamp. How much longer can the party go on? Al Caceido is very concerned and believes that we will soon reach the tipping point. What will happen then is anyone's guess, but it's not going to be pleasant and a lot of promises will be broken.Read More
*This interview was recorded on November 29, 2018Full description and comments at: https://www.peakprosperity.com/podcas...Since gold topped out in 2011, the precious metals mining sector has been where investor capital goes to die.Mining stocks have performed miserably over the past seven years, missing out completely on the central bank-created liquidity-fest that has raised nearly every other e...Read More
Andrew Maguire is an Independent London Metals Trader and Analyst, internationally renowned for his unique ability to read the precious metals market with the knowledge and experience gained over 35 years trading in financial and commodity markets. Andrew sits on the advisory board of a global physical bullion exchange and is a consultant advisor to many international hedge fund managers, bullion...Read More
"Inflation rates are plunging! The bond yields are breaking down, and yield curves are flattening!"Gregory Weldon is CEO of Weldon Financial and Editor of the influential newsletters "Weldon's Money Monitor," the "Commodity and Currency Monitor," the" Metal Monitor," and the "ETF Playbook." He launched these macro-market publications, covering supply-demand fundamentals, along with technical, inte...Read More
The Yellow Vest protests in France have only received a small amount of media coverage in the U.S. and there may be good reason for it. Is the fact that these protests began over a Carbon Fuel Tax and have spread to general dissatisfaction with big government caused mainstream media to shy away from talking about it?Read More
This article is an overview of the principal factors likely to drive the gold price in 2019. It looks at the global factors that have developed in 2018 for both gold and Continue...Read More
On Saturday, Dec. 1, at the end of the G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires, President Trump and his team of trade and finance advisers had dinner with President Xi Jinping of China and his team.Continue...Read More
The bull market run since March 2009, when unprecedented money printing became the economic driver du jour, recently become the longest in history without a 20%-plus correction.Continue...Read More