Micron stock touched a 17-year high last weekMicron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) received another bullish brokerage note today, after BMO raised its price target to $63 from $43. The brokerage firm noted, "Memory industry fundamentals, especially for DRAM, remain strong." Despite the price-target hike, Micron is trading down 0.4% at $60.93 -- but could see volatile trading on Friday, with the chi...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is prioritizing election cyber security above all other critical infrastructure it protects, the agency’s chief said on Wednesday, just months ahead of the November midterm elections.Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that her department was “prioritizing election efforts ... over all other critical infrastr...Read More

Three years after Mark Zuckerberg made Brian Action a billionaire, by paying $22 billion for WhatsApp, the messaging app's co-founder has a clear message for the billions of social media drones worldwide - #deletefacebook.Read full newsRead More

In response to Trump's trade wars, China is preparing to hit back with its own countertariff aimed at Trump's support base, including levies targeting U.S. agricultural exports from farmbelt states in retaliation to the mounting trade offensive from Washington.Read full newsRead More

Sareum Holdings Plc (LON:SAR) chief executive, Dr Tim Mitchell, talked to Proactive Investors' Andrew Scott about Sierra Oncology, which is the licence-holder for the Sareum-developed SRA737 cancer drug.Mitchell said he's heartened Sierra is more than doubling the size of two phase II clinical trials of the treatment (one underway, the other upcoming).He is also impressed by the methodology used b...Read More

(Kitco News)- Somegold investors were dealt a blow Wednesday, losing what could be a major ally,after famed Hedge Fund owner John Paulson shut down his firm’s gold fund.Accordingto Bloomberg, Paulson & Co. has returned client capital that was investedin its gold and special situation hedge funds. The move comes after the firmhas seen its assets plunge by almost $30 billion in the last fo...Read More

(Reuters) - A top investor in Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and a major proxy adviser have offered opposing views on whether to support Chief Executive Elon Musk’s compensation arrangement at a special meeting of the electric car maker to be held Wednesday.The Silicon Valley billionaire’s proposed compensation award, valued at $2.6 billion, involves no salary or cash bonus but sets rewards based...Read More

The stock market is expecting a rate hike this afternoonThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) has overcome an early dip into the red to trade more than 100 points higher at the halfway point. Traders are awaiting the first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy announcement under new Fed Chair Jerome Powell this afternoon. While the stock market is expecting the central bank to lift its key...Read More

Apollo Minerals' (ASX:AON) Hugo Schumann talks Proactive Investors through the decision to acquire a 75% interest in the Aurenere tungsten-gold project in northern Spain.Schumann says the project's contiguous with their Couflens Project next door in France and provides an extension of strike along a highly prospective corridor for tungsten and gold.  Meet Wolf Minerals, Thor Mining PLC, Rainb...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. home sales rebounded strongly in February, boosted by hefty gains in the South and West regions, but a chronic shortage of houses on the market remains an obstacle heading into the spring selling season.The National Association of Realtors said on Wednesday that existing home sales jumped 3.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.54 million units last month....Read More

(Kitco News) - The Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) is a basket ofseveral major raw commodity futures prices, including grains, energies,international foods, metals and livestock, rolled into one composite index. Theindex is a good gauge of the general trend of the raw commodity sector. See onthe weekly GSCI chart that prices are still in an uptrend that began in early2016. In fact, recent pri...Read More

(Kitco News) - The Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) is a basket of several major raw commodity futures prices, including grains, energies, international foods, metals and livestock, rolled into one composite index. The index is a good gauge of the general trend of the raw commodity sector. See on the weekly GSCI chart that prices are still in an uptrend that began in early 2016. In fact, recen...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. home sales surged in February, boosted by hefty gains in the South and West regions, but a chronic shortage of houses on the market remains an obstacle heading into the spring selling season.The National Association of Realtors said on Wednesday that existing home sales jumped 3.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.54 million units last month. That ended...Read More

TAIPEI (Reuters) - The United States’ commitment to Taiwan has never been stronger and the island is an inspiration to the rest of the Indo-Pacific region, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Alex Wong said on Wednesday, in comments certain to anger Beijing.Wong was speaking during a visit to Taipei at a time of increased hostility between the self-ruled island and Beijing and just a da...Read More

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Vered Toledo, chief operating officer of Shefa Yamim (ATM) (LON:SEFA), talks to Proactive about the ongoing bulk sampling at Kishon Mid-Reach in Israel, where the unique Carmel sapphire has been prevalent so far.Fourteen samples have been taken from zone 1 at the alluvial deposit, of which two are left to be processed, she said.Once that is done, the company will process samples from zone 2.Toledo...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is in talks with the European Union, Argentina and Australia on granting possible exemptions to steel and aluminum tariffs, Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told the House Ways and Means Committee in a hearing on Wednesday.Lighthizer said that talks with South Korea over any possible exemption would be carried out within the context of existing trade...Read More

(Kitco News) - Gold prices have extended early gains and are trading solidly up andnear their daily highs in late-morning action Wednesday. After seeing sellingpressure in recent days, it's likely that traders have already factored in aquarter-point interest rate rise coming from the Federal Reserve thisafternoon. The rally today is a "sell-the-rumor, buy-the-fact"phenomenon so commonly...Read More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed rules on Wednesday to make digital companies pay their fair share of tax, with U.S. tech giants such as Google (GOOGL.O), Facebook (FB.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) set to foot a large chunk of the bill.Under the Commission’s plan, companies with significant digital revenues in Europe will pay a 3 percent tax on their turnover on various online...Read More

The tech giant has been one of the worst stocks to own during Easter weekFAANG stocks have been in focus this week, amid the fallout from Facebook's (FB) data harvesting scandal. While FB shares are pacing for their worst week in years, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) stock is currently staring at a 3.7% week-to-date deficit -- down 0.3% today to trade at $1,092.96. And if history is any guide, GOOGL...Read More