WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Friday that “good progress” had been made in talks to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement and that negotiators would remain in Washington over the weekend.“We are certainly in a more intense period of the negotiations and we are making good progress,” Freeland said during the Inte...Read More

Patrick Cullen, chief executive of Connemara Mining Company PLC (LON:CON), discusses with Proactive's Andrew Scott the maiden inferred resource estimate at their Stonepark zinc project in Limerick, Ireland.The headline mineral resource estimate is 5.3mln tonnes grading 11.15% zinc + lead combined. The zinc (Zn) grade was 8.55% and the lead (Pb) grade was 2.60%.Cullen also adds further detail to th...Read More

Editor's Note: This story was updated from the original posted on April 20, 2018 at 13:13 EST. (Kitco News) - Turkey joined the ranks of Germany and Hungary as the latest country which brought back its gold to home base, this according to reports from the country’s media.Reports from Turkish media outlet Yeni Safak suggest that the country brought back all of its gold stored in the U.S. Fede...Read More

Editor's Note: This story was updated from the original posted on April 20, 2018 at 13:13 EST. (Kitco News) - Turkey joined the ranks of Germany and Hungary as the latest country which brought back its gold to home base, this according to reports from the country’s media.Reports from Turkish media outlet Yeni Safak suggest that the country brought back all of its gold stored in the U.S. Fede...Read More

BLOK Technologies' (CSE: BLK) CEO Rob Dawson tells Proactive Investors about the emerging world of blockchain and how BLOK's technology will have huge impacts for companies all over the world.Dawson says BLOK Technologies is looking at providing the tools to make it easier for those companies to make secure financial transactions.Dawson thinks this will be especially important in the cannabis ...Read More

How the stock market performs when bulls rush inWhile many sentiment polls last week showed evaporating optimism among stock traders, the latest American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) poll suggests many bulls are rushing back from the sidelines. In fact, AAII respondents that identified as bullish jumped by the biggest one-week margin since September, according to Schaeffer's Quantita...Read More

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Alphabet reports earnings after the close on MondayAfter Netflix (NFLX) reported earlier this week, the next FAANG name to take its turn in the earnings confessional will be Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), which is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings after the close Monday. Ahead of the event, Credit Suisse tempered expectations for GOOGL shares, issuing a price-target cut to $1...Read More

(Reuters) - Continued gradual rate increases are the “right forecast” for the Federal Reserve for the next couple years amid stronger U.S. and global economic growth, fiscal stimulus, a strong labor market, better wage growth and stable inflation, a U.S. central banker said on Friday.San Francisco Fed President John Williams, who will take over the New York Fed in June, also said he is...Read More

Falling oil prices could also be creating headwindsThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is set for a third straight loss, as Apple (AAPL) stock continues to pull back. Sliding oil prices could also be adding to the bearish backdrop, after President Donald Trump tweeted about the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) this morning. May-dated crude futures were last seen down 48...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic Party filed suit against Russia, President Donald Trump’s campaign and WikiLeaks on Friday, charging that they conspired to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, a court filing showed.The party alleges in the federal lawsuit in Manhattan that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to...Read More

Mcx Nickel Intraday – Nickel BUY Call 662 given at price 964.50 Achieved 1st Target 972 & 2nd Target 978 (Made 981 at 11:37am) Total Profit 13.5 x 2 lot = 27 PointsTIPS ID 662 : Nickel Call – BUY Nickel at cmp 964.50 for Target 972 – 978 with Small SL below price 959. RISK taker trade 2 lotsAFTER POST CONTENT Read More

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian inquiry into financial sector misconduct claimed its first scalp on Friday as the CEO of the country’s largest wealth manager stepped down over revelations of board-level deception and misappropriation of funds.The departure of AMP Ltd’s (AMP.AX) Craig Meller came as the government vowed to double prison terms for financial crimes, dramatically increase...Read More

AMARILLO, Texas (Reuters) - In a sprawling plant near Amarillo, Texas, rows of workers perform by hand one of the most dangerous jobs in American industry. Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired nuclear warheads.Although many safety rules are in place, a slip of the hand could mean disaster.In Energy Department fac...Read More

(Kitco News) - Main Streetremains bullish while Wall Street is split on the short-term direction of goldprices, according to the Kitco News weekly gold survey. Sixteen marketprofessionals took part in the survey. Seven respondents, or 44%, called forgold prices to rise over the next week. Another six voters, or 38%, looked forgold to fall, while three, or 19%, called for a sideways market.Meanwhil...Read More

(Kitco News) - Main Street remains bullish while Wall Street is split on the short-term direction of gold prices, according to the Kitco News weekly gold survey. Sixteen market professionals took part in the survey. Seven respondents, or 44%, called for gold prices to rise over the next week. Another six voters, or 38%, looked for gold to fall, while three, or 19%, called for a sideways market.Mea...Read More

Gold remains largely forgotten, off the radars of most investors. But that's likely to change soon as this leading alternative investment is nearing a major bull breakout. Once gold climbs to decisive new bull-market highs, sentiment will turn and investors' interest will surge. Their resulting buying will rapidly drive gold higher, attracting in more capital inflows. Gold is only a couple...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two months after the death of 17 people at a school shooting in Florida sparked the strongest push for gun control in years, gun makers’ stocks and firearm sales have surged.Uproar over the murders continued to stoke debate about regulation ahead of November’s elections, with students across the United States planning a walk-out on Friday, the 19th anniversary...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump criticized OPEC on Friday for output curbs that have helped raise global oil prices and said “artificially” high prices would not be accepted, drawing rebukes from oil-producing countries as prices dipped following his remarks.“Looks like OPEC is at it again. With record amounts of Oil all over the place, including the fully load...Read More

SANTIAGO, April 20 (Reuters) - Brokerage firm Banchile on Friday auctioned 1.5 million series-A shares in Chile lithium miner SQM at a sale price of 30,000 pesos ($50.36) per share, raising a total of $76 million.SQM, which operates primarily in Chile's Salar de Atacama, is one of the world's largest and most cost-efficient producers of lithium.($1 = 595.70 Chilean pesos)(Reporting by Felipe Iturr...Read More