This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business Reporter West Texas Intermediate crude for May delivery gained 56 cents to $64.94 on the New York Merc, while Brent for May gained 74 cents to $70.27 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $23.40 to WT...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Thursday was a so-so 79-76-135. The TSX Venture Exchange regained 12 points to 796 while polished diamond prices edged higher. Lukas Lundin and Eira Thomas's Lucara Diamond Corp. (LUC) gained fou...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterNew York spot gold gained $0.60 to $1,325.00 on Thursday. The TSX Venture Exchange regained 12.45 points to 796.67 while the TSX Gold Index rose 2.54 points to 186.58. Most Canadian gold miners rebounded today, led by Premier Gold Mine...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange rallied 12.45 points to 796.67 Thursday, but it ended the month down 32.45 points. Shabir Premji's first capital pool shell, P Squared Renewables Inc. (PSQ: halted), is planning to acquire a clean energy compan...Read More

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday March 30.Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were split into two camps at the close on Thursday March 29, with the market shutting down for a long Easter weekend. Read more here in our live futures report.Here are how LME prices looked at Thursday's close:The European secondary aluminium market is said to be in a sta...Read More

Randgold Resources' Chief Financial Officer, Graham Shuttleworth, announced today that since the company declared its maiden dividend for the 2006 financial year, its dividends have increased by 1,900%. "Randgold Resources had one of the best years in its history of achievement and delivery in 2017, posting another production record of an already high base and pruning the cost of production to its...Read More

To understand how enzymes work,scientists need to make molecules involved in enzymatic activities visible through techniques such as fluorescence microscopy.However, many times molecules cannot be detected because they don't emit light. Gold can be the solution to such problem. A researcher with the Leiden Institute of Physics decided to tackle the issue by attaching single molecules to gold nanor...Read More

 https://www.bnn.ca/Peter Munk, the Canadian immigrant who founded Barrick Gold Corp. in the early 1980s and transformed it from a small-scale operation into a global empire, has died. He was 90.He died Wednesday in Toronto, according to a company statement. No cause was given.A serial entrepreneur, Munk's ventures ranged from high-end electronics to real estate. But it was as founder of Toro...Read More

Deliverable lead stocks at Shanghai Futures Exchange-bonded warehouses decreased by 3,302 tonnes or 12.5% in the week ended Friday March 30. Inventories of the other base metals, with the exception of aluminium, were similarly lower. The fall in lead stocks follows a 7,517-tonne or 22.2% decline to 26,343 tonnes last week. This week, Zhongchu Wuxi in Jiangsu saw the most lead leaving its sheds wit...Read More

Aluminium prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were weaker during Asian morning trading on Friday March 30, tracking the decline seen on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday.The most-traded May aluminium contract declined to 13,705 yuan ($2,178) per tonne as of 10.16am Shanghai time, down by 0.8% or 115 yuan per tonne from Thursday's close.Overnight weakness in the LME's three-month aluminium...Read More

Zinc and lead concentrate treatment charges (TCs) rose in March, reflecting expectations of better supply and fewer smelter shorts in the market.Concluded deals were few and far between, with much of the market waiting for annual contract reference prices to settle before delving into the spot market.Both zinc and lead concentrate markets are in the process of turning away from super-tight conditi...Read More

Zinc and lead concentrate treatment charges (TCs) rose in March, reflecting expectations of better supply and fewer smelter shorts in the market.Concluded deals were few and far between, with much of the market waiting for annual contract reference prices to settle before delving into the spot market.Both zinc and lead concentrate markets are in the process of turning away from super-tight conditi...Read More

Copper concentrate treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs), ticked lower at the end of March, with traders continuing to bid lower for spot material and smelters re-adjusting bids to the downside.The Metal Bulletin copper concentrates TC/RC index stood at $66 per tonne/6.6 cents per lb on Thursday March 29, down from $68.6/6.86 cents a fortnight ago.Copper concentrate TC/RCs, discounts on exchange...Read More

Metal-concentrates exchange Open Mineral has hired a new head of China to set up its office in Shanghai, tapping into one of the world's most significant metals concentrates markets, Metal Bulletin has learned. Wen Wang, former head of China for Cliveden and MRI, has joined the trading platform to oversee the region's business, the company's chief executive officer Boris Eykher told Metal Bulletin...Read More

Facebook is an epic growth story. It now has an astounding 2 billion active users and a stock that - from an already richly-valued level - rose by 53% in the previous year. In February its market cap peaked at $560 billion, a number that exceeds the GDP of many countries. Over 90 percent of Wall Street analysts covering it rated it a "buy."Everyone knew that it had data privacy issues but no one c...Read More

An overview of China's minor metals markets in the week of March 26-30 and the reasons for any price moves.Read More

Facebook is an epic growth story. It now has an astounding 2 billion active users and a stock that - from an already richly-valued level - rose by 53% in the previous year. In February its market cap peaked at $560 billion, a number that exceeds the GDP of many countries. Over 90 percent of Wall Street analysts covering it rated it a "buy."Everyone knew that it had data privacy issues but no one c...Read More

Via Sovereignman.comIt's about time. Someone has finally discovered what the adult entertainment industry has been missing for so many years: blockchain.It's true: a bunch of porn stars have recently gotten together to launch Bunny Software Ltd, a new cryptofinance startup that aims to 'disrupt' how people pay for pornography.Instead of charging your credit card for that Pornhub Premium account, n...Read More

"In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime - the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps ...the nation and the world are in dire...Read More

Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973, helping to steer the fund to a 4200% return before "retiring" at age 37. He is considered to be one of the greatest investors of all time. Rogers has made two record-setting journeys - once by motorcycle and once by car - and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for doing so. In between his frequent travels, he has served as a p...Read More