Golden Predator Mining Corp. (TSXV:GPY) and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Yukon Mint?,,? are pleased to announce the First Yukon Mint?,,? .9999 gold coin was unveiled on May 30th, 2018 at a Company event in Toronto, Canada.Read full newsRead More
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold jewelry sales in number one market China are finally picking up after years of decline, but consumers are still shying away from platinum.Chinese jewelry sales are a key component of global demand for both physical gold and platinum, accounting for 14 percent and 16 percent of consumption respectively. Since peaking in 2013, both have fallen by around a third.Analysts and j...Read More
Gold futures settled higher Tuesday for the first time in three sessions, to reclaim $1,300-an-ounce level as the U.S. dollar stronger turned lower for the week, helping the precious metal recoup some investment interest. August gold GCQ8, -0.05% tacked on $4.90, or 0.4%, to settle at $1,302.20 an ounce after falling in each of the last two sessions. Its settlement Monday at $1,297.30 marked the l...Read More
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The market rout that hit Italy last week shows that the euro zone is not yet “crisis proof” and more reforms are needed at both the national and European levels, the head of Germany’s central bank said on Tuesday.Investors are nervous about Italy’s new anti-establishment government, which has promised to increase spending, cut taxes and challenge Europ...Read More
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) decision to buy GitHub has been a blessing for rival U.S. coding platform GitLab, which has seen thousands of developers jump ship on worries that GitHub may end up favoring Microsoft products over others.“It has been crazy in the last twenty-four hours. We are seeing thousands switching, tweeting about it,” GitLab Chief Executive Officer Syt...Read More
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with his trade advisers on Tuesday to discuss an offer by China to import an extra $70 billion of American goods over a year as Beijing tries to defuse a potential trade war between the world's two largest economies.Two sources with direct knowledge of the talks told Reuters there have been no discussions on what Washington woul...Read More
Production at Escondida began in 1990 and peaked in 2007 at more than 1.4 million tonnes of copper. Image: BHPCopper jumped 3.7% in New York on Tuesday to trade at $3.25 a pound ($7,165 a tonne), the highest since end-February, as worries about supply disruptions in key producing region resurface.Workers at the Escondida copper mine in Chile put down quite a marker in the third round of contract n...Read More
Production at Escondida began in 1990 and peaked in 2007 at more than 1.4 million tonnes of copper. Image: BHPCopper jumped 3.7% in New York on Tuesday to trade at $3.25 a pound ($7,165 a tonne), the highest since end-February, as worries about supply disruptions in key producing region resurface.Workers at the Escondida copper mine in Chile put down quite a marker in the third round of contract n...Read More
Asante Gold Corporation (CSE:ASE Frankfurt:1A9) and Perseus Mining (Ghana) Limited ('Perseus') have agreed to modify the terms of their Betanase Option and Sale Agreement.Read full newsRead More
The healthcare concern could enjoy a short squeezeThe shares of gene therapy concern Abeona Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ABEO) are set for their best day in nearly two months, up 15.5% to trade at $17.92, thanks to a bullish analyst note. Specifically, Seaport Global started coverage of ABEO stock with a "buy" endorsement and $29 price target -- representing 90% upside to the security's closing price...Read More
(Reuters) - Declines in financial and healthcare stocks weighed on the S&P 500 and Dow on Tuesday, while strong gains in tech heavyweights lifted the Nasdaq to a record intra-day high.Amazon rose 1.2 percent and Apple edged up 0.6 percent, leading gains in the S&P consumer discretionary index and technology index, the top gainers among the major S&P sectors so far this year.Another bri...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks on world indexes edged lower and the Mexican peso and Canadian dollar fell on Tuesday amid concerns over a trade war, even as U.S. technology shares extended recent gains to boost the Nasdaq index.The so-called FAANG stocks - Facebook (FB.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O), Netflix (NFLX.O) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) - rose. The S&P technology index .SPLRCT gained 0.2...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold priceswere firmer and pushed back above the key $1,300.00 level in early-afternoonU.S. trading Tuesday. Some short covering in the futures market and bargainhunting in the cash market were featured, following recent selling pressure.Metals traders are looking for some new fundamental news to help drive prices. August Comex gold futures were last up $5.50 an ounce at $1,302.80....Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators plan to introduce as soon as Tuesday legislation that would force President Donald Trump, or any U.S. president, to obtain congressional approval before imposing tariffs on national security grounds, a senior senator said on Tuesday.Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters le...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. services sector activity accelerated in May, pointing to robust economic growth in the second quarter, but trade tariffs and a shortage of workers posed a threat to the outlook.Other data on Tuesday showed job openings rising to a record high in April, far outpacing hiring. Strengthening economic growth and tightening labor market conditions likely seal the case for a F...Read More
H.C. Wainwright waxed optimistic on the company's efforts to reduce debtValeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE:VRX), which will change its name to Bausch next month, is trading up 5.4% at $23.18, after an analyst at H.C. Wainwright said the drugmaker is becoming more financially fluid thanks to a lighter debt load. While the brokerage firm maintained its "neutral" rating and $20 price target, toda...Read More
MILAN (Reuters) - A buoyant European tech sector, which hit a 17-year peak on Tuesday, was not enough to lift the broader European market as jitters over politics in the periphery persisted.The pan-European STOXX 600 gave up gains to end the session with a 0.3 percent loss, weighed down by weaker banking stocks, and bringing two sessions of straight gains to an end.However, the tech index .SX8P wa...Read More
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(Kitco News) - Although market fearsof an Italian contagion effect are now largely subdued, one strategist saidthat the country is not out of the woods, yet. With Premier Giuseppe Conteheading a newly sworn-in Cabinet to head a coalition government, financialmarkets found relief in political stability, but not everyone is confident in thepopulist leaders’ policies. Francesco Papadia,fello...Read More
(Kitco News)- The gold market continues to struggle with weak bulliondemand as the Royal Canadian Mint reported a more than 50% drop in sales in thefirst quarter of 2018.In its first-quarter earnings report, released last week,the Canadian mint said that gold volume dropped to 108.5 thousand ounces in thefirst quarter, down from 228.2 thousand ounces reported in the first quarter of2017.Silver dem...Read More