Focus in on retaliation measures after Trump's tariff. Traders have ignored the exceptional US February nonfarm payroll numbers. Global stock markets are expected to rise. Sentiment for the US dollar is still weak. Now the focus will be on the FOMC meet. The pace of interest rate hikes is the key and not the actual hike. An early Easter (in March) does have temporary economic implications. I b...Read More

Qualcomm drops after deal scuttled; Texas crude retreatsWhite House moves keep investors guessing; Treasuries gainArbuthnot Latham's Perdon Says U.S. Financials a Good Place to BeU.S. equities fell for the second straight day as markets took in Tuesday’s economic and political news. The 10-year Treasury yield fell while the dollar held steady.While an inflation report reinforced the sense t...Read More

Selling pressure in gold, as well as a strong U.S. dollar, have canceled each other out to leave gold unchanged on the day. As of 3:30 PM Eastern standard time, April gold futures are currently unchanged and trading at $1,324 per ounce.Spot gold is currently fixed at $1,322.90, which is a net loss of $0.20 on the day. According to the Kitco Gold Index, a weakening U.S. dollar is adding $3.40 value...Read More

Selling pressure in gold, as well as a strong U.S. dollar, have canceled each other out to leave gold unchanged on the day. As of 3:30 PM Eastern standard time, April gold futures are currently unchanged and trading at $1,324 per ounce.Spot gold is currently fixed at $1,322.90, which is a net loss of $0.20 on the day. According to the Kitco Gold Index, a weakening U.S. dollar is adding $3.40 value...Read More

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised aluminum and steelworkers on Monday he would defend them against possible U.S. tariffs and called U.S. President Donald Trump to stress that "mutually beneficial" cross-border supply chains should be preserved.Trump said last week he would impose import tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent for aluminum, effective later this month, but exem...Read More

What are two things that all investors like? Trends and bargains. The trend is your friend. And one of the hottest trends at the moment in markets is blockchain.Investors also like bargains - for obvious reasons. That's one reason why more and more investors are turning to the Stockhouse DealRoom:...Read full newsRead More

FTSE 100 closes lowerInvestors weigh better-than-expected US jobs reportGKN reviews revised Melrose bidJust Eat slumps on broker downgrade  FTSE 100 couldn't hold onto early gains and finished in the red, as sterling firmed.Britain's blue-chip benchmark closed down over nine points, or 0.13% to 7,214.FTSE 250 however fared better, gaining around 32 points at 20,117.Against the Euro, the...Read More

Rosatom announced on Monday that the Russia-China Investment Fund for Regional Development will kickstart the financing for a uranium mining project in Russia's Zabaikalsky Territory.Zabaikalsky is located in the southeastern region of Transbaikalia and has a 998-kilometre border with China and a 868-kilometre border with Mongolia. According to state-owned website Sputnik, the agreement was signed...Read More

Rosatom announced on Monday that the Russia-China Investment Fund for Regional Development will kickstart the financing for a uranium mining project in Russia's Zabaikalsky Territory.Zabaikalsky is located in the southeastern region of Transbaikalia and has a 998-kilometre border with China and a 868-kilometre border with Mongolia. According to state-owned website Sputnik, the agreement was signed...Read More

Shares in Newcrest Mining fell more 4.6 per cent Monday after the miner declared that its performance for fiscal 2018 will be definitely affected by the breach of a tailings dam wall at its Cadia gold mine."Whilst it is too early in the evaluation and recovery process for Newcrest to provide an indication of the extent to which FY18 production, capital and cost guidance will be impacted, this even...Read More

Shares in Newcrest Mining fell more 4.6 per cent Monday after the miner declared that its performance for fiscal 2018 will be definitely affected by the breach of a tailings dam wall at its Cadia gold mine."Whilst it is too early in the evaluation and recovery process for Newcrest to provide an indication of the extent to which FY18 production, capital and cost guidance will be impacted, this even...Read More

Shares in Newcrest Mining fell more 4.6 per cent Monday after the miner declared that its performance for fiscal 2018 will be definitely affected by the breach of a tailings dam wall at its Cadia gold mine."Whilst it is too early in the evaluation and recovery process for Newcrest to provide an indication of the extent to which FY18 production, capital and cost guidance will be impacted, this even...Read More

Stocks started the day off strong, as traders continued to react to Friday's jobs report. However, lingering concerns President Donald Trump's tariffs -- set to be implemented later this month -- and big sell-offs for blue chips Intel (INTC), Boeing (BA) and Caterpillar (CAT) sent the Dow down 157 points at the close. Tech stocks outperformed, however, with the Nasdaq locking in a fresh record clo...Read More

Vancouver-based Caza Gold and Arctic Blockchain have agreed to merge through a transaction described as a "reverse takeover" of Caza by Arctic. This means that the former will change its business from a mining issuer to a technology issuer. Even though the terms of the transaction are still to be defined, the idea is that following completion former Arctic shareholders will hold approximately 98.2...Read More

Vancouver-based Caza Gold and Arctic Blockchain have agreed to merge through a transaction described as a "reverse takeover" of Caza by Arctic. This means that the former will change its business from a mining issuer to a technology issuer. Even though the terms of the transaction are still to be defined, the idea is that following completion former Arctic shareholders will hold approximately 98.2...Read More

Lewis KrauskopfNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has rippled through financial markets, but stocks appear to be shrugging off the potential for a broader global trade war, according to Goldman Sachs strategists.As Trump’s tariff plans to levy steel imports at 25 percent and aluminum at 10 percent have come to light i...Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. inflation expectations edged higher last month, with one measure hitting its highest level in a year, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey published Monday that adds to signs of price pressures.The survey of consumer expectations, which the Fed considers among other data as it continues to gradually raise interest rates, showed median one-year ahead infl...Read More

Ayenat MersieNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Monday as investors grappled with ongoing concerns over rising U.S. output and tight OPEC supply, while last week’s data showing speculators cut bets on oil suggested more selling could be seen.Brent crude futures LCOc1 were down 63 cents, or 1 percent, by 1:32 p.m. EDT (1732 GMT), to $64.86 per barrel.U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) cr...Read More

Catherine Ngai(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) unexpectedly announced on Monday that Harvey Schwartz will retire from the bank, leaving David Solomon as sole president and chief operating officer and the most obvious successor to Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein.Schwartz and Solomon were named co-COO in December 2016 in a setup that appeared to pit the two against each other to eventually...Read More

Gold should have performed a lot better over the past two years - and especially the past two months. That's because both periods were characterized by the factors that, according to conventional wisdom, should cause gold to perform well: higher inflation and stock-market turmoil. Because gold GCJ8, +0.14% did not do well suggests that we should take a critical look at what makes gold a good inve...Read More