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BELFAST (Reuters) - It is going to be a “very, very hard sell” for British Prime Minister Theresa May to win parliamentary backing for her emerging Brexit deal, the deputy leader of the small Northern Irish party propping up her government said on Tuesday.“The trick will be for Theresa May, can she satisfy everyone? It is going to be a very, very hard sell, I would have thought,...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold andsilver prices recouped mild early losses to trade around unchanged levels onthe day, in early-afternoon dealings Tuesday. Gold hit another four-week lowbelow $1,200.00 overnight. The silver market fell to a two-month low today.Precious metals were somewhat supported when the U.S. dollar index sold offtoday, on a corrective pullback after hitting a 1.5-year high on Monday. H...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold and silver prices recouped mild early losses to trade around unchanged levels on the day, in early-afternoon dealings Tuesday. Gold hit another four-week low below $1,200.00 overnight. The silver market fell to a two-month low today. Precious metals were somewhat supported when the U.S. dollar index sold off today, on a corrective pullback after hitting a 1.5-year high on Mond...Read More

TORONTO (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO) (TRI.N) has appointed former IDG Communications CEO Michael Friedenberg as president of Reuters news and media operations, Thomson Reuters said on Tuesday.Friedenberg will join the company on Dec. 3 and report to Jim Smith, president and chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters, the statement said. He will be based in New York.Editorial content w...Read More

SEDALIA, Missouri - Nucor Corp, America's largest steelmaker, planned a new plant in Sedalia, Missouri, long before U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs to protect the industry - and it does not need them to make money.Although the firm helped lead the lobbying push for tariffs on imports, executives say they invested in Sedalia and two other sites to capitalize on an already profitable str...Read More

Shifting sentiment among analysts could work against FB stockThe chart of Facebook Inc. (NYSE:FB) stock has taken a turn for the worse. The shares of the social media giant have broken out of their long-term uptrend, and have been stuck in a downtrend since a massive July bear gap. What's more, a brief rebound attempt struggled to break through the $155-$160 area, site of FB's previous 2018 lows....Read More

Chilean environmental regulators have rejected plans by Albemarle Corp , the wor...Read full newsRead More

Home Depot reported better-than-expected third-quarter resultsAt last check, shares of Home Depot Inc (NYSE:HD) are down 1.5% to trade at $176.75, in spite of the retail name's better-than-expected third quarter earnings. The post-earnings downshift comes after the home improvement company said tariffs will have an impact on prices at its retail locations. HD announced third-quarter earnings per s...Read More

India's Jindal Steel and Power Ltd on Tuesday reported a profit of 3.44 billion rupees ($47.36 million) for the second quarter, helped by a one-time gain.For the year-ago period, the New Delhi-based company had reported a loss of 4.48 billion rupees.Eight analysts on average had expected a loss of 536 million rupees, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.The company had a one-time gain of 2.55 bil...Read More

Macy's reports third-quarter earnings before the open tomorrow, Nov. 14Earnings season has a strong retail theme to it this week. One of the retail giantsdue up is Macy's Inc (NYSE:M), which will step into the earnings confessional for its third-quarter report before the open tomorrow, Nov. 14. Ahead of the event -- and a historically bullish period for Macy's -- the stock is down 0.1% today to tr...Read More

The diamond industry must deliver on its promise that consumers can trust the diamonds they purchase are sourced, traded, and processed responsibly, said a coalition of concerned civil society organizations today."Time is up for the diamond industry. Image is everything to the value of diamonds, yet the industry continues to be tainted by association with human rights abuses like child labour and...Read More

The diamond industry must deliver on its promise that consumers can trust the diamonds they purchase are sourced, traded, and processed responsibly, said a coalition of concerned civil society organizations today."Time is up for the diamond industry. Image is everything to the value of diamonds, yet the industry continues to be tainted by association with human rights abuses like child labour and...Read More

Gold is clinging to the uptrend line coming in at down to 1196....We have the weekly S1 from Pivot Points @ 1198....and the daily S1 @ 1195....so there are 3 good reasons to buy Gold at lower levels we have the order in....we just need it to drop a smidge lower....or buy @ market if it doesn't get these within the next hour... Gold has come down a lot from being contained by the 200 week MA @...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is considering removing Department of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen and replacing chief of staff John Kelly in another shakeup of his administration, ABC News reported on Tuesday, citing multiple unnamed sources.Nielsen, a prot?(C)g?(C) of Kelly who became the secretary at Homeland Security when he left the job to become Trump’s c...Read More

(Kitco News) -The sentiment from the Silver & Gold Summit in SanFrancisco was one of fear - the nosedive that equities took in October hasunderstandably shaken investors’ confidence in the stock markets.The questions on everyone’s mind is during the conferencewas whether or not investors will flood back to safe havens in 2019, and if so,will gold take the crown as the king of safe...Read More

(Kitco News) - The sentiment from the Silver & Gold Summit in San Francisco was one of fear - the nosedive that equities took in October has understandably shaken investors’ confidence in the stock markets.The questions on everyone’s mind is during the conference was whether or not investors will flood back to safe havens in 2019, and if so, will gold take the crown as the king of...Read More

Home Depot, meanwhile, has reversed lower after earningsThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is sporting modest gains at midday, as a swing higher for Apple (AAPL) stock and reports of revamped U.S.-China trade talks offset a post-earnings reversal for Home Depot (HD) and another day of sharp losses for oil prices. Specifically, December-dated crude futures are down 3.8% at $57.65 per barrel, he...Read More

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has resigned, the president’s office said on Tuesday, following calls from opposition parties for him to stand down over a High Court ruling which said he had lied under oath.Gigaba, who was finance minister between March 2017 and February 2018, has denied any wrongdoing. Gigaba, who in February was reappointed...Read More

Gold has come under renewed downward pressure since the Fed's meeting (November 8).Speculators continue to normalize their bearish positioning in Comex gold, the CFTC shows.ETF investors cut slightly their gold holdings last week, according to FastMarkets.The outcome of US midterm elections (November 6) should be dollar-negative.I continue to expect a strong rebound in gold prices into year-end....Read More