Two miles below Earth's surface, scientists found animal life in a South African gold mine. They wonder: If life can exist there, could it exist on Mars?Read full newsRead More

... but don't hold your breath for this to be agreed upon by May's cabinet any time soon.Read full newsRead More

Oil stocks Chevron and Exxon Mobil weighed on the DJIThe Dow traded in a range of more than 300 points on both sides of breakeven, before ultimately ending lower. Apple (AAPL) continued to weigh on the index, as did a disappointing post-earnings performance from Home Depot (HD). Boeing (BA) stock was among the biggest Dow drags, amid reports the firm failed to disclose potential 737 Max flight iss...Read More

Searchlight Resources Inc. (TSXV:SRCH) is pleased to announce the staking of Hanson Lake Rare Element Pegmatites located approximately 65 kilometres west of Creighton, Saskatchewan, which is five kilometres southwest of the city of Flin Flon, Manitoba.Read full newsRead More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street stock prices shed earlier gains on Tuesday while oil prices plunged on persistent concerns of weakening global demand.The U.S. benchmark S&P 500 stock index .SPX turned negative after energy stocks were depressed by falling Brent and U.S. crude futures. Oil prices tumbled 7 percent, with U.S. crude touching its lowest level in a year.Brent and U.S. crude exte...Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) - NATO is developing new hi-tech tools, such as the ability to 3D-print parts for weapons and deliver them by drone, as it scrambles to retain a competitive edge over Russia, China and other would-be battlefield adversaries.General Andre Lanata, who took over as head of the NATO transformation command in September, told a conference in Berlin that his command demonstrated over 21...Read More

David GaffenNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil’s slide accelerated on Tuesday, with U.S. futures suffering their steepest one-day loss in more than three years due to ongoing worries about weakening global demand and oversupply.U.S. futures closed down 7.1 percent, for a record 12th straight decline and the lowest since November 2017. More than 980,000 contracts changed hands, as funds shed positions....Read More

Karen Freifeld(Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to provide written answers to questions from the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as soon as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.The questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Trump is preparing to answer relate only to Moscow’s involvement in the e...Read More

Steve HollandWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to remove Department of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen and is considering replacing chief of staff John Kelly in another shakeup of his administration, a source close to the White House said.Trump has been mulling removing Nielsen, a Kelly protege who became the secretary at Homeland Security when he left the job...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. federal government ran a $100 billion deficit in October, the first month of the new fiscal year, according to data released on Tuesday by the Treasury Department.The deficit was in line with analysts' expectations.The Treasury said federal spending rose 18 percent from the year-earlier month to $353 billion in October, while receipts were up 7 percent to $253 billi...Read More

(Reuters) - Home Depot Inc (HD.N), the biggest U.S. home improvement chain, suggested on Tuesday that the pace of U.S. home sales was slowing, and said impending trade tariffs could force it to raise prices on some products.The warning from the country’s top seller of power tools, flooring and lawnmowers overshadowed its stronger-than-expected third-quarter results and a higher annual sales...Read More

Karen Freifeld(Reuters) - President Donald Trump is expected to provide written answers to questions from the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as soon as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.The questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Trump is preparing to answer relate only to Moscow’s involvement in the e...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nigeria’s Main One Cable Co took responsibility on Tuesday for a glitch that temporarily caused some Google global traffic to be misrouted through China, saying it accidentally caused the problem during a network upgrade.The issue surfaced on Monday afternoon as internet monitoring firms ThousandEyes and BGPmon said some traffic to Alphabet Inc’s Google had be...Read More

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Apple has never lost more market cap in seven short days... ever.Read full newsRead More

(Kitco News) - Gold prices are expected to quietly move higher through the rest of the year into 2019, butone of the world’s top precious metals consultancy firms said investors shouldn’t expect to see fireworks as there currently isn’t an urgency for diversification.In a recent interview with Kitco News, Philip Newman, director and founding partner of Metals Focus, said that alt...Read More

Osisko Metals (CVE: OM) of Montreal has released results of the drill program at the Titan zone on its Key Anacon property 20 km south of Bathurst. Recent hole KAT-18-08 returned 8.0 metres of massive sulphides grading 9.53% zinc, 3.63% lead, 0.20% copper, and 68.62 g/t silver.The same hole also intersected a separate copper rich zone that assayed 1.18% copper, 0.82% zinc, 0.12% lead and 8.9 g/t s...Read More

Osisko Metals (CVE: OM) of Montreal has released results of the drill program at the Titan zone on its Key Anacon property 20 km south of Bathurst. Recent hole KAT-18-08 returned 8.0 metres of massive sulphides grading 9.53% zinc, 3.63% lead, 0.20% copper, and 68.62 g/t silver.The same hole also intersected a separate copper rich zone that assayed 1.18% copper, 0.82% zinc, 0.12% lead and 8.9 g/t s...Read More

Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More

Monday's sell-off was in line with the norm, if this signal is any indicatorAfter a brutal October, U.S. stocks kicked off November with a bang. Specifically, the S&P 500 Index (SPX) enjoyed two straight weekly gains of at least 2% -- something we haven't seen in more than three years. Below, we take a look at what these signals could mean for both the stock index and Wall Street's "fear barometer...Read More